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Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
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About Landscaping Services at Georgia Tech
The Landscape Services department maintains Georgia Tech's commitment to a livable, sustainable and beautiful campus. A dedicated team of landscape professionals implement responsible processes and pursue sustainability certifications. The department's goal is to provide an attractive and safe campus environment where students, faculty, staff and visitors can live, work, and study in comfort.
Georgia Tech and the Landscape Services department won the 2023 Green Star GRAND award in the category of Urban University Grounds from the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS). This is the highest award ever achieved by Georgia Tech from this nationally recognized organization. Additionally, Georgia Tech garnered the Sustainability award for innovation in sustainable grounds maintenance. The campus achieved Level II Certified Arboretum for the first time in 2016, again in 2021, and most recently 2026. This level is recognized by both the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum, for achieving specific standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.
The Landscape Services department is responsible for the maintenance of Georgia Tech's 426-acre campus. That acreage is divided as 312.5 acres of landscape, 3.5 acres of naturalized land and 110 acres of building footprints. The department is charged with the maintenance of both the landscape and hardscape, including more than 15,000 trees on campus.
Job Summary
Perform general and specialized landscape and grounds maintenance activities to include plantings, chemical applications and equipment maintenance. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: supervisor and coworkers. This position typically will advise and counsel: Groundskeepers I. This position will supervise: NA.
Responsibilities
Job Duty 1 -
Maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers and flower beds (planting, fertilizing, mulching, watering, pruning, etc.)
Job Duty 2 -
Transport equipment and personnel via motor vehicle to and from job sites.
Job Duty 3 -
Perform lawn maintenance to include mowing, line trimming, edging, aeration, fertilization, lime application, etc.
Job Duty 4 -
Maintain landscape and grounds; clear debris, trash, branches and leaves, remove ice, empty trash receptacles, clean storm drains and ash urns
Job Duty 5 -
Apply integrated pest management principles to maintain the Institute's lawn, trees, shrubs, groundcover, and flowers, through cultural practices and chemical use.
Job Duty 6 -
Perform routine maintenance of equipment to include pressure washers, blowers, weed eaters, etc.
Job Duty 7 -
Complete daily grounds maintenance reports.
Job Duty 8 -
May provide or assist in training to new employees.
Job Duty 9 -
Perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
High school diploma, GED Certificate or Vocational School Diploma
Other Required Qualifications
Position works closely with Institute central and unit development to assist in obtaining external corporate funding for GT. Employer giving is often directly tied to successful recruiting outcomes. Position also works closely with communications and marketing, and is occasionally asked (or contacted directly by media) to represent GT to the media, most often local and national print/web based media, pertaining to job market conditions generally and for GT students specifically.
Required Experience
One to two years of job related experience
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Preferred Qualifications
Valid Georgia Driver's License
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
SKILLS
This job requires working knowledge of grounds maintenance processes and practices including operation and maintenance of related equipment, use of radio communications equipment and operation of a motor vehicle.
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at policymanual/section6/C2653.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.
Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.
Other Information
This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.
Job Code: C3A
Pay Range: $18.90/hr
Shift: Monday - Friday 6:25 am-2:55 pm
GT/Infrastructure & Operations benefits include:
- Retirement plan of Teacher Retirement Plan (TRS) Retirement Benefits or Optional Retirement Plan (ORP) | Human Resources | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA (gatech.edu)
- Medical plan options Your USG Benefits | University System of Georgia
- Vacation (working 100% time)
- Sick time accrual 8 hours a month (8 days per year, do not expire at year-end)
- 10 paid national holidays (including Juneteenth) plus Thanksgiving includes off Thursday and Friday, and there is entire week of winter break with a campus shut down which includes 5 business days off paid- depending on calendar year might have Christmas or New Year included, if not, those paid holidays as well) this does not count against vacation time.
- After 6 months of full-time employment, eligible for Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)
- After 12 months of full-time employment eligible for Staff Tuition Reimbursement Assistance Program (STRAP)
- Perks at work - discounts available through various businesses.
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