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Location

Towson, MD | United States

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Job description

Under direct supervision, the Gardener performs semi-skilled tasks responsible for the care, maintenance, and repair the campus gardens and grounds, including the trees, lawns, meadows, wooded areas, fields, planters and hardscapes and outdoor furnishings. This position is responsible for operating electrically powered and gasoline-powered landscaping equipment and the use of small hand and power tools, or equipment, in planting, cultivating, and trimming and other aspects of landscaping. The individual must have the ability to read, write/type and perform basic mathematical calculations using a calculator and a computer. The individual must possess the necessary initiative and dependability to work alone or in groups and communicate in a thoughtful way.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Performs gardening maintenance activities including cultivating, planting, deadheading, transplanting, watering, fertilizing, weeding, mowing, pruning trees, shrubs, hedges and maintaining gardens beds. Perform installation of annuals, perennials native plants, trees, and shrubs. Assists in the maintenance of outdoor fields and athletic facilities.
• Performs groundskeeping tasks. Removes dirt, trash, and debris from assigned areas and transports same to appropriate disposal facility. Utilizing gas powered or electric equipment, clean up and transport leaves, tree limbs etc. Address frequent service calls, and emergencies such a spill, animal issues. Patches asphalt, paver, or concrete areas.   Perform painting, fence, and sign maintenance.
• Operates hand and power equipment such as mowers, tillers, sweepers, snow blowers, edgers, shovels, and small vehicles. Performs routine assembly, cleaning and maintenance of equipment as needed.
• Perform installation of annuals, perennials, native plants, shrubs, trees, following detailed plans and directions. Transport and install soils, mulches, compost, and other soil amendments. Responsible to clean up area when completed.
• Measures, mixes, and applies fertilizer, and other chemicals following specific instructions under direct supervision.
• Performs removal of snow and ice from assigned areas using hand and power snow removal equipment. Spreads salt, sand, and deicers to prevent slipping.
• Essential position required for snow removal, events, and other campus emergencies.

Qualifications and Skills

• Power tools and equipment; to perform work in, on around, under and over trees, shrubs and buildings and facilities; to work at heights up to 35 feet; to perform physical work requiring bending, stooping, reaching, carrying and frequent heavy lifting; to work outdoors in adverse weather conditions; to wear and work in personal protective equipment.

Preferred

• High School diploma.
• Basic gardening knowledge, plant and weed identification.
• Have the ability to obtain within one (1) year from the start MDE Responsible Personnel Training (formerly the Green Card).

Except for qualifications established by law, additional related experience, and formal education in which one has gained the knowledge, skills and abilities required for full performance of the work of the job class may be substituted for the education of experience requirement on a year-for-year basis with 30 college credits being equivalent to one year of experience.

Salary and Benefits 

$33,500 annually and full University benefits that includes annual leave, up to 15 holidays, personal and sick days; excellent health, life, and retirement plans; and tuition remission. To learn more about our benefits, click here . TU also offers a variety of great perks and discounts, which can be found here .

This position will be open for a minimum of 14 days. For consideration, please submit a cover letter and resume with your online application. 

The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and neighbors has been our top priority and the focus of every one of our decisions since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the University System of Maryland (USM) has strongly encouraged full COVID vaccination and up-to-date booster shots (when eligible) for all faculty, staff, and students at all schools in the USM as both a reasonable and necessary means of protecting our health and safety.

About Towson University

The largest comprehensive university in the Baltimore area, Towson University is nationally recognized for its excellent programs in the arts and sciences, communications, business, health professions, education, fine arts and computer information systems. Located in suburban Towson, eight miles north of Baltimore, our beautifully landscaped, 328-acre setting offers a pleasant environment for study and a diverse campus life, as well as easy access to a wealth of university and community resources. Towson University's educational experience branches out to off-campus locations throughout Maryland, including a number of online options. Our many interdisciplinary partnerships with public and private organizations throughout Maryland provide opportunities for research, internships and jobs. Towson University is a founding member of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU).

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