Groundskeeper and Small Equipment Maintenance Technician
Milton Academy
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Posted: 30-Jan-25
Location: Milton, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Facilities or Plant Operations
Required Education:
High School
Summary of Position:
The Milton Academy Groundskeeper and Small Equipment Repair Technician performs semi-skilled labor to clean, repair, improve, treat and maintain Milton Academy’s turf, shrubs, trees, flower beds, grounds and athletic fields while also providing physical support for the set up and dismantling of material and equipment for various scheduled and special events throughout the year. In addition, this individual should have a working knowledge of small equipment (e.g., mowers, weed wackers, gators), with the ability to troubleshoot and repair on-site. The individual in this position must work collaboratively with Facilities Services team and have a customer service orientation to working with students, faculty, and staff.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Cultivates, maintains, repairs and restores turf, athletic fields and trees through mowing, weeding, raking, aerating, de-thatching, seeding, mulching, pruning, fertilizing and other similar activities; observes, inspects and maintains campus irrigation systems.
Assist in measuring, staking, and establishing the layout of athletic fields for outdoor sports. Assemblies; maintains and repairs various outdoor athletic equipment including goals and batting cages.
Hand picks, gathers, collects, loads and transports litter/debris from and about the Academy grounds.
Milton Academy is an independent college preparatory K–12 school, boarding and day in grades 9–12, located just outside Boston.
Milton Academy cultivates in our students a passion for learning and a respect for others. Milton students grow by developing their own identities, learning from and listening to the lived experiences of others, and living and working among peers whose differences they accept with respect and care.
In our ongoing work to create an environment that confronts bias, injustice, and bigotry, we encourage each other to be open to learning, explore our histories and identities, and seek to understand the world around us with a critical lens. At Milton, we prepare students to partner with their future communities to create a more just world and to have the courage to speak up and live by our motto, “Dare to be true.”