In business for more than 48 years, Servicon is the leading custodial solutions provider servicing the healthcare, aerospace, commercial, municipal, manufacturing, and entertainment industries nationally.

Our customer base includes Fortune 100 and 500 companies as well as many of the largest hospitals, aeronautical facilities, and municipalities throughout the United States.

Our goal is to create cleaner, healthier environments for our clients while working toward our vision to elevate the industry through integrity, leadership, and innovation. Our ultimate objective is to provide exemplary service while changing the face of the cleaning industry. We welcome candidates who share our values.

The Groundskeeper is responsible for maintaining the job site’s landscape and hardscape areas including but not limited to: gardens, parks, property exteriors, open grounds, and airfields. The Groundskeeper controls and ensures plant growth, the cleanliness of outdoor facilities and pruning of overgrown hedges. Additionally, the Groundskeeper oversees the maintenance and repairs of exterior equipment, landscape structures, outdoor furniture, and walkways. Demand levels are managed through constant interface the with the local work team and on-site client.

• Special focus on the clearing of plants and debris found on or near the aircraft flightline. This will be a daily priority function.
• Apply pesticides to remove harmful insects such as mosquitos, wasps, and ticks and weeds.
• Conduct general maintenance duties such as cleaning walkways and fixing flowerbeds.
• Plant new decorative bushes, flowers, plants, and shrubs.
• Remove weeds and dead plants as needed to preserve the health and natural beauty of the plants.
• Trim overgrown limbs, hedges, and leaves to ensure an appealing look to the area.
• Fix, repair and adjust water irrigation sprinklers heads as found inoperative.
• Communication with the client’s point-of-contact to prioritize landscape services.
• Picks up and remove trash prior to mowing a designated area.
• Prepares soil and plants flowers, bushes, hedges, or shrubs.
• Applies fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides as directed to control weed growth through-out the campus.
• When required, completes snow removal tasks such as shoveling sidewalks, steps, and doorways as needed during winter months.
• Performs routine maintenance on power equipment.
• Change out filled packaging dumpsters. Coordination and assistance to haul-off truck drivers to gain access into the disposal/ recycling stations.
• Moving of all used materials and debris out to predesignated stations for further recycling. Keeping those same stations neat and orderly.
• Operation of other material handling equipment including Powered ride-on mowers, Blowers, Forklifts, Tractor/ Tugs, Pallet Jacks (manual and motorized), Big Joe Lifts, Banding Equipment (for pallets), Hydraulic Cardboard Bailing equipment, Load Levelers (docks), push carts (a variety) and related safety equipment and barricading.
• Operation of company trucks, forklifts, tugs, and other motorized vehicles in performance of the work assigned, pick-up / deliveries, perform assigned job duties and commute to other Servicon job sites. All company and client driving regulation and policies must be followed and associate must be on the “Authorized Company Drivers” list.
• Use of manual tools to include rakes, trimming shears, cutting plyers, electric saws, and other gardening tools as required, to maintain the plant growth.
• Inspects assigned work area during/after work has been completed verifying that all work has been done in compliance with site specific procedures and customers scope of work, schedules, daily, weekly, and monthly special requests.
• Maintain operational readiness of their work vehicles, equipment, and tools, reporting any damage or non-operation to local management immediately.
• Ensures that supplies are neatly stored in their work area, equipment / tools are maintained in good working order, equipment repairs are reported in a timely manner and equipment is cleaned thoroughly at the end of each shift.
• Other jobs and duties as personally identified or assigned to meet the highest standards of quality, service, and cost effectiveness.
  

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