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Req #: 247823

Department: MAINTENANCE

Posting Date: 07/24/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 07/31/2025

Salary: $4,145 - $5,560 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, **click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20230701\_a11y.pdf)**

**Harborview Maintenance** has an outstanding opportunity for a **Gardener Lead** .

WORK SCHEDULE

+ 100% FTE

+ Monday – Friday

+ Day Shift **DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION** **Harborview Medical Center Maintenance** is a department of the Facilities & Capital Development Division. Our goal is to respond in a timely manner to your building maintenance needs; to make alterations and repairs to the systems needed to maintain patient care and a healing environment at Harborview.

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

+ Support UW Medicine's mission to improve the health of the public at our region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and safety net hospital caring for the people of King County

+ Lead and work with Gardeners and other assigned personnel in the development and maintenance of institution grounds **PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**

+ Regularly assign, instruct and check work of other grounds personnel in landscape construction and grounds maintenance work

+ Perform and lead others in planting, transplanting, mowing, pruning, fertilizing, and irrigating lawns, gardens, shrubs, and trees; coordinate and prepare special landscape projects

+ Direct preventive maintenance programs and maintain equipment records

+ Maintain adherence to safety policies and procedures

+ Develop preliminary cost estimates for maintenance, construction and repair work; inspect grounds projects; read and interpret blueprints

+ Use a variety of manual and power tools, motorized equipment

+ Assist in interviewing, selecting, training, and evaluating grounds personnel

+ **REQUIREMENTS**

+ Physical ability to do required work AND two years of experience as a Gardener or equivalent work involving grounds maintenance, plant care and landscape construction

+ OR Physical ability to do required work AND one year of experience as stated above AND one year of college level training in botany, horticulture, forestry, landscape, irrigation or allied field

+ Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications

ABOUT HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER

As the region's only Level I Trauma and verified burn center, Harborview Medical Center is a comprehensive healthcare facility owned by King County and operated by UW Medicine. It is dedicated to providing specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including the most vulnerable residents of King County. It provides exemplary patient care in leading-edge centers of emphasis, including emergency medicine, trauma and burn care, neurosciences, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation, mental health and substance abuse care.

Harborview employees are committed to the vital role the institution plays in the immediate community, as well as the entire Northwest region.

Challenge. Collaboration. Compassion. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/about/career-opportunities/harborview-medical-center)

ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER

UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.

**Become part of our team. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/jobs)** Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

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.