Classified Maintenance Specialist - Grounds/ Landscaping

- Position Type:
Maintenance / Custodial / Security/Specialist - Date Posted:
10/23/2026 - Location:
Buildings and Operations Department - High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
- Experience in Landscaping.
- Valid IVP Fingerprint Card
- Provide installation, preventative maintenance, and repair services for district landscaping equipment.
- Removes branches and debris from grounds, as well as cleans fence lines and curbings as required.
- Maintains and prepares athletic fields by dragging, fertilizing, lining, and cleaning field areas.
- Irrigates lawns and maintains sprinklers and sets timers for the watering. Repairs, replaces, and adjusts sprinklers.
- Maintains the trees, grass, dirt, gravel, plants, and bushes by raking, trimming, mowing, watering, mulching, reseeding, fertilizing, planting, and weeding.
- Maintains and cleans systems and equipment.
- Will wear all required Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) while performing assigned duties and follow all applicable Safety and Environmental Protection Policies / Guidelines.
- Maintains electronic records of repairs, maintenance and fabrications of various organizational equipment and components in the district's work order management system.
- Estimates and documents cost of materials and labor in relation to projects performed.
- Maintains supply inventory and assigned shop machinery, equipment, tools, facilities and assigned vehicles in the district's facilities management system.
- Participates in professional development opportunities to continuously improve practices associated with assigned duties.
- Demonstrates outstanding customer service to requesters of services through responsive and thorough communication via our work order management system, interpersonal interactions and in email communication.
- Perform general maintenance with numerous other trades in the Buildings & Operations department when a task requires a diverse work group.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
- Skill in maintaining trees, foliage, shrubs, grass, and other greenery.
- Skill in operating a variety of grounds keeping related tools and equipment.
- General safety equipment and practices associated with the landscaping.
- Diagnosis and repair procedures.
- Skill in planning, prioritizing, and completing work orders.
- Skill in following safety policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions and procedures.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to provide outstanding customer service, including but not limited to interacting courteously and tactfully with the public.
- Commitment to create and sustain a thriving learning and working environment for students and staff.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and supervisors.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative in proactively maintaining electrical systems and equipment.
- Ability to read blueprints, schematic drawings and construction drawings.
- Work is performed throughout campus and district facilities, both indoors and outdoors.
- Work may require exposure to hot and cold temperatures, potentially dangerous tools and equipment, and hazardous chemicals.
- Positions in this class may typically require: climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, grasping and repetitive motions.
- Very Heavy Work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
| Classified Maintenance Specialist - Grounds/ Landscaping | JobID: 1823 |
Classified Maintenance Specialist – Grounds/Landscaping
Cartwright School District's motto is "We are Cartwright. We are growing together!"
JOB GOAL
This role is a maintenance position. Landscaping personnel provide a safe and clean environment for our students and staff to learn and thrive by maintaining the district and campus grounds and landscaping.
QUALIFICATIONS
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibilities shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
REPORTS TO: Department Administrator
LOCATION: Buildings and Operations
SUPERVISES: NA
CALENDAR: 12-Month; Benefitted
POSITION FTE: Position Hours: 8 per day
JOB CATEGORY: Classified
BEGINNING SALARY: ESP Salary Schedule Column D; starts at $21.08
BENEFITS: As approved by the Governing Board
FLSA STATUS: Non-Exempt
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Until filled