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Job Title: Groundskeeper

Job Description

We are seeking a dedicated Groundskeeper to maintain the beauty and cleanliness of our outdoor spaces. This role involves various landscaping tasks, including lawn care, plant maintenance, and snow removal, ensuring our grounds are pristine and welcoming.

Responsibilities

+ Inspect assigned areas and perform litter control, leaf removal, weeding, pruning, mowing, and string trimming as needed.

+ Collaborate with Landscape Technicians on group projects.

+ Conduct planting, deadheading, and thinning of plant materials.

+ Apply periodic fertilization and pre-emergent control under supervision.

+ Perform lawn care tasks such as mowing, edging, fertilizing, and watering to maintain healthy turf.

+ Provide plant care, including planting, pruning, and trimming of trees, shrubs, and flowers.

+ Remove weeds from gardens, flowerbeds, and landscaped areas.

+ Clear leaves, litter, and other debris from grounds and pathways.

+ Remove snow and ice from walkways and parking lots, including on-call duties during winter precipitation events.

+ Operate lawnmowers, trimmers, leaf blowers, and other landscaping equipment safely.

Essential Skills

+ Experience in groundskeeping and general labor.

+ Proficiency in lawn care and ability to perform physically demanding work.

+ Capability to lift up to 50 lbs.

+ Adaptability to work outdoors in various weather conditions.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

+ Preferred verifiable experience in lawn care or gardening.

Why Work Here?

Joining our team as a permanent employee offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, and a 401k plan. Additionally, employees can access HSA/FSA options and tuition assistance through IU's Tuition Benefit Plan, providing subsidies for you and your eligible family members.

Work Environment

This position is entirely outdoors, requiring the ability to work in all weather conditions, whether rain, shine, heat, or cold. The role involves maintaining the cleanliness and upkeep of grounds throughout the university, which may entail getting dirty depending on the tasks.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Bloomington, Indiana.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $15.00 - $15.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job

classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be

subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits

available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision

• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

• Short and long-term disability

• Health Spending Account (HSA)

• Transportation benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Bloomington,IN.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 31, 2025.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.