Department
FSU Facilities - Grounds Department
Responsibilities
Responsible for the upkeep and beautification of campus gardens that involves the groundskeeping care and maintenance of plants and flowers ensuring optimal growing conditions on the Florida State University Campus. This includes tasks like planting, pruning, weeding, and maintaining the overall health of plants.
Performs campus groundskeeping tasks such as edging, raking, mulching, power blowing, light pruning, trimming spent blooms, watering plants and mowing. Identifies and removes weeds from flowerbeds, gardens, planting areas, and pathways, ensuring the removal of roots to prevent regrowth. This includes utilizing a weed eater and hand weeding with the use of tools like hoes or weed pullers. Transplants plant/flower materials, assists with minor landscape renovations, to include soil excavation and removal. Responsible for debris removal, leaf removal, trash pickup and other tasks to keep grounds clean and presentable. Maintains areas by spreading landscape materials such as pine straw, bark, or rocks.
Provides care to the greenhouse area and nursery plants to include planting, transplanting, pruning, watering, fertilizing, controlling insects and disease, ventilating, and controlling weeds. Inspects plant materials for disease and insect problems, light levels, temperature and humidity, nutrient requirements. Sprays, dusts, shades, and fumigates plants. Prepares proper soil mixes, waters plants in the greenhouses, unloads and groups plants together as appropriate, locates and groups plants together according to their growing requirements, weeds plant pots and greenhouse floors, fertilizes plants with liquid and granular feed, re-pots plants and determines appropriate soil, checks for signs of insects on plants. Cultivates and propagates plants from seeds, cutting, or grafting. Mixes soil, moss and other plant bed ingredients. Harvests, cleans, treats, and stores seeds.
Safely operates and maintains grounds equipment to ensure the health and appearance of university grounds. Ensures that all manual and power equipment is in proper working condition and reports maintenance needs to the supervisor. Performs other tasks as assigned by supervisor or higher authority.
Qualifications
Minimum of a 9th Grade Education or Higher
- Valid Florida or Georgia driver's license or the ability to obtain one upon hire
University Information
One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University preserves, expands, and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology, arts, humanities, and professions, while embracing a philosophy of learning strongly rooted in the traditions of the liberal arts and critical thinking. Founded in 1851, Florida State University is the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida. FSU is a community steeped in tradition that fosters research and encourages creativity. At FSU, there’s the excitement of being part of a vibrant academic and professional community, surrounded by people whose ideas are shaping tomorrow’s news!
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How To Apply
If qualified and interested in a specific job opening as advertised, apply through the FSU Careers site (jobs.fsu.edu). If you are a current FSU employee, apply through myFSU Self Service.
Applicants are required to complete the online application with all applicable information. Applications must include all work history up to ten years, and education details even if attaching a resume.
Veterans' Preference
Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans, Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans, receive preference and priority, and certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for post secondary educational requirements, in employment by the state and its political subdivisions and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled. Veterans' Preference applies to University Support Personnel System (USPS) positions only.
IMPORTANT: To claim Veterans' Preference, select “yes” to the question on the application questionnaire and upload a DD-214 (or equivalent), the Veterans' Preference Certification form, and other documentation if applicable with your online application before midnight of the position closing date.
Click the links for Veterans’ Preference eligibility requirements and Veterans’ Preference required documentation (PDF), or call FSU Human Resources at (850) 644-6034.
Considerations
This is an USPS (University Support Personnel System) position.
This position requires successful completion of a criminal history background check.
Equal Employment Opportunity
FSU is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
