Landscape Technician at InsideHigherEd

Job Posting:JR101237 Landscape Technician (Open)Department:Facilities, PMPosition Type:RegularOpen Date:07-29-2025Close Date:$46,736 - $52,000Job Description:Under general supervision, performs technical work in the field of landscape maintenance, ornamental horticulture, and/or landscape construction. Leads and provides training for landscape maintenance projects.Responsibilities: Performs landscaping activities such as planning and layout of projects, planting and cultivating shrubs, trees, turf and flowers, and pesticide applications. Inspects and monitors the conditions of the landscape to assess horticultural or environmental problems. Advises and instructs grounds personnel in erosion control, mowing practices, fertilization, pruning, irrigation and applications of pesticides to fields and landscape. Performs insect and disease identification, soil evaluation, and other evaluative techniques. Determines and takes appropriate remedial action. Ensures adequate supplies, materials and equipment are available for assigned projects. Ensures the operational safety and readiness of equipment; cleans equipment and performs routine maintenance and repairs. Operates landscaping equipment such as aerifiers, sprayers, forklifts, backhoes, mowers, power and hand tools. Cleans project area upon completion of work.Minimum Qualifications:Bachelors degree in horticulture, agronomy or related field. Two years in landscape construction, agronomy, or landscape maintenance work. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:Ability to read, write, and perform arithmetic calculations; to followoral and written instructions.Operate and perform minor maintenance to assigned hand and power tools and equipment; to perform work in, on, around, under and over trees, shrubs, and buildings and facilities. Work at heights up to 35 feet; to perform physical work requiring bending, stooping, reaching, carrying, and frequent heavy lifting.Work outdoors in adverse weather conditions; to wear and work in personal protective equipment. Conditions of Employment:Candidates must have a valid Maryland Non-Commercial Class C or equivalent driver’s license. Candidates selected for employment may be subject to medical inquiries and/or medical examinations to determine ability to perform the job. Background checks are conducted on all selected candidates. This position is considered an essential function/employee position.Employees in this classification will be required to report to work or remain at work during inclement weather and/or other campus events or emergencies. Additional Job Information:Benefits include medical, dental, prescription, long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance and life insurance; paid time for paid sick leave, annual leave, and personal leave; 12 paid holidays per year, tuition remission; employer-funded pension and supplemental retirement accounts.Bowie State University shall not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, age, ancestry or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital status or veteran status. All policies, programs, and activities of Bowie State University are and shall be in conformity with all pertinent Federal and state laws of nondiscrimination including, but not limited to: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination Act, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Federal Executive Order No. 11375, and Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland. This commitment applies in all areas and embraces faculty, staff, and students.Equal opportunity of access to academic and related programs shall be extended to all persons. Bowie State University shall have as its firm objective equal opportunity in recruitment and hiring, rate of pay, all other promotions, training, retention and dismissals, for all employees and applicants for employment. The University will stress equal access for employees and applicants for employment to all programs and services provided by the University both on and off campus. The University will also provide equal opportunity and an atmosphere of nondiscrimination with respect to women and members of minority groups in all its operations. In addition, the University shall promote equal opportunity and equal treatment through a positive and continuing Affirmative Action Program.The University makes, and will continue to make, reasonable accommodations to promote the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans, unless such accommodations would impose an undue hardship on the University's business. In addition, employees and applicants will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in, or may have engaged in, activities such as filing a complaint, assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance review or hearing, or opposing any act or practice made unlawful, or exercising any other right protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended or the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended.