Grounds Turf Manager

Position Summary: Maintains athletic fields, creating safe, high-quality playing surfaces for football, baseball, softball, soccer, and practice fields. Responsible for performing daily duties assigned by the director that are both scheduled and unscheduled that will include, but not be limited to, mowing, trimming, edging, watering, aerifying, verticutting, topdressing, irrigation programming, painting, and adherence to the Athletics Department and University policies as well as NCAA and Conference rules and Regulations.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assists in maintenance programming for irrigation, seeding, weed control, turf repair, sod removal, renovation, and installation

• Reports and addresses field issues such as turf stress, disease, wear areas, etc

• Safely apply fertilizer and pesticides with various hand and power spray equipment

• Identifies insects, diseases, weeds and/or organisms or elements attacking plant material and take the appropriate steps to eradicate the problem

• Prepares athletic fields (e.g. drag/layout/line fields, repairing rodent damage, divots, etc.) for the purpose of providing adequate, attractive and safe areas for assemblies, recreational activities, athletic events, practices and/or games.

• Safely operate university-owned vehicles

• Ensures safe use of all equipment as well as handling maintenance requests and conducting preventative maintenance of equipment

• Picks up and removes litter and debris in and around all Athletic Facilities

• Mows, sods, topdresses, aerates, trimming, pruning, and brush fields this may also include water fields, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering tanks

• Conducts field painting to include logos, game lines, painting field layout numbers, hash marks, and borders of our athletic fields for practices, recruiting events, and games. 

• Maintains supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies

• Maintains safe and clean environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations

• Prunes and trims trees, shrubs, and hedges and performs other duties as assigned

• Assist with open/close gates during severe weather, apply ice melt and for snow removal, and to assist with any other cold-weather issues for their specific assigned fields

Minimum Requirements:
Education: High School Diploma 

Experience: 1 year of athletic fields or grounds maintenance experience

Preferred: Associate's Degree in Sports Turfgrass Management

Certifications or Licenses:

• Valid state driver's license to drive university vehicles or obtain one within 30 days of hire date