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Req #: 247714

Department: FACILITIES SERVICES

Job Location Detail: Not typically telework eligible.

Posting Date: 07/10/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 07/24/2025

Salary: $3,774 - $5,028 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908\_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The Facilities Services Department at UW Bothell has an outstanding opportunity for a Gardener 2 to join their team.** **POSITION PURPOSE

Facilities Services Department at UW Bothell, recognized regionally for its sustainable practices, has an outstanding opportunity for a GARDENER 2. This individual will, under general supervision, perform skilled work in the maintenance of campus upland landscapes, hardscapes, natural areas, synthetic turf athletic fields, nurseries, and greenhouses.

The primary function of this position will be to perform skilled tasks requiring knowledge of sustainable and organic gardening practices and ecological restoration, including the cultivation and maintenance of trees, lawns, exotic and native plants, natural areas, rain gardens, and hardscapes. Skilled tasks include invasive plant control, pruning, planting, soil improvement, plant identification and general care, selective weeding, integrated pest management, propagation, and the use of a variety of hand tools and power equipment.

Shift: Monday - Friday, 7am-3:30pm** **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain high profile display beds and planting areas

• Perform invasive plant and pest control in gardens and natural areas

• Prepare sites and soils for planting

• Mow, edge, fertilize, top dress, overseed, aerate, and irrigate lawns

• Perform all tasks related to Campus Composting, including vermicomposting and thermal composting

• Plant seeds, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees

• Prune plant material

• Plant propagation in the field and greenhouse

• Maintain greenhouse and nursery plant material

• Apply organic fertilizers, compost tea, and soil inoculants

• Maintain synthetic turf athletic fields

• Install, repair, and operate irrigation system

• Use a variety of hand tools such as pruning shears, rakes, shovels, hoes, pitchforks, and hand saws

• Operate power and motorized equipment such as line trimmers, chain saws, backpack blowers, mowers, pressure washers, utility vehicles, tractors, trucks, lifts, and snow equipment

• Clean, service, and maintain tools and equipment

• Service outdoor landfill, recycle, and compost containers

• Pick-up litter, scrape gum, empty smoking urns, clean-up spills

• Maintain hardscapes including sidewalks, stairs, pavers, ramps, and roadways

• Hazardous Waste Clean-Up: Sharps disposal, Chemical Spills, etc.

• Remove snow and ice from areas such as sidewalks, stairs, roads, ramps and parking garages and lots

• Apply deicer, salt, sand as required

• During inclement weather operate power brushes, spreaders, plow trucks, truck-mounted sanding and deicing units

• Install and maintain campus signs, fences, rockeries, etc.

• Read and interpret blueprints and plans for projects

• May direct the work of others

• Perform Traffic Control Flagging

• Assist with and/or perform tours of campus landscape and/or operations for Students, Faculty, Staff and the general public as required

• Assist with Campus Events as required

• Assist other Facilities Teams and/or other Campus Departments as required

• Perform related duties as required

In the performance of these duties, the Gardener 2 will be working outside in all types of weather conditions. Foul weather gear is routinely worn. Personal Protective Equipment is worn as required. Exposure to, and contact with a diversity of plant materials, soil, pollen, wild animals, and insects is routine.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Physical ability to do required work AND one year of experience or training involving grounds maintenance, plant care, cultivation and landscape installation OR equivalent education/experience.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to routinely lift/move up to 50 pounds.

• Ability to work independently.

• Ability to communicate effectively to provide excellent customer service.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in the field of horticulture, ecological restoration, grounds maintenance, or landscape design and/or installation

• Organic land care

• Plant identification

• Ecological restoration

• Display bed design and maintenance

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Valid Washington State Driver’s License

• Ability to secure valid CPR, AED, and First Aid certificate within six months of hire

• Ability to secure valid Washington State Traffic Control Flagger certification within six months of hire

• This position is designated as one that performs an essential function. This means that the position’s incumbent must continue to report to work as directed in the event that the University suspends operations because of severe weather, natural disaster, or another emergency condition.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.