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As a qualified nonprofit agency operating within the AbilityOne program, ServiceSource hires persons with significant disabilities. For the majority of direct labor positions, ServiceSource will obtain documentation of a significant disability as per the JWOD Act.

Job Summary

This position is responsible for ensuring campus grounds are keep clean, neat, and meeting contractual requirements, while providing effective customer service and achieving customer satisfaction by delivering services in a professional, courteous, and timely manner for our National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) West Base Operations Support Contract.

Primary Duties

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. These duties and responsibilities will be rated on the Annual Performance Review.

+ Mow, edge, prune, and trim plants. Maintain plant beds, weed control, fence line vegetation control, and police grounds.

+ Provide grounds maintenance and quality inspections for the contract on a year-round seasonal program.

+ Cut all grass around trees, shrubs, planting beds, building, parking lots, signs, and other obstacles within mowing areas.

+ Operate, inspect, test, maintain, and repair stand-on mowers, string trimmers, weed-eaters, edger, snow and leaf blowers, handheld hedge trimmers, spreaders, and other similar seasonal maintenance equipment.

Additional Responsibilities

+ assist in performing seasonal grounds maintenance by providing quality service in accordance with the contract specifications.

+ Maintain turf by watering, fertilizing, weeding, mowing, trimming, replanting, and performing other operations as required to establish healthy, viable turf.

+ Transport large debris, leaves, trash, etc. from origination to disposal site.

+ Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.

+ Gather and remove litter.

+ Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools. Assist in moving lawn equipment from client campus to storage or maintenance facility.

+ Perform snow and ice removal from parking lots and walkways by using shovels, spreaders, and deicers such as salt and ice melt.

+ Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, planters, or other grounds features.

+ Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications: Education, Experience and Certification(s)

+ A high school diploma or state certified equivalent required.

+ Must gain and maintain NGA site access.

+ Must successfully pass HSPD-12 background check.

+ Previous grounds experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk and sit. The employee may occasionally lift or move products and supplies, up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, making employment decisions without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and transgender status), national origin, age (40 or older), veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are an E-Verify Employer and a drug-free workplace. Pre-employment background checks are required for all employment positions.

PAY TRANSPARENCY POLICY STATEMENT:

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information