Grounds & Maintenance

Special Instructions

When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents:

• A Resume

For additional information please contact:
Aaron Haupert pert

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability, protected veteran, and other protected status.

This position requires driving a University vehicle or a personal vehicle on behalf of the University; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a Motor Vehicle History Check, possess and maintain a current, valid driver’s license in their state of residence, be determined to be position qualified and self-report convictions (as per Voluntary and Compulsory Driver Standards OSU Standard ) as per OSU Standard  et seq.

OSU will conduct a review of the National Sex Offender Public website prior to hire.

Note:
All job offers are contingent upon Human Resources final approval

Job Title:

Grounds & Maintenance

Appointment Type:
Student Employee

Position Application Percent: 100%

Appointment Basis: 12

Pay Method:
Hourly

Pay Period: 16th - 15th of the following month

Pay Date:
Last working day of the month

Remote or Hybrid option: N/A

Min Hourly Rate: $15.05 (Standard); $14.05 (Non-Urban); $16.30 (Portland Metro)

Max Hourly Rate: $19.50 (Standard); $19.00 (Non-Urban); $20.50 (Portland Metro)

This recruitment will be used to fill 2 part time (a maximum of 24 hours per week) student Grounds and Maintenance positions for the Athletics Department at Oregon State University.

OSU is committed to ensuring students are prepared for success after graduation through intentional skill development as student employees. The competencies students develop while working at OSU are defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) as the essential skills employers seek in their hires. In this position, students learn and build vital career-readiness skills in the primary areas below:
Communication, Critical Thinking, Teamwork, and Career & Self-Development.

• Sets up/takes down for both indoor and outdoor activities and events. This includes setting up/taking down things such as fences, bleachers, benches, scoreboards, windscreens, nets, goals, baskets, tables, chairs, lane lines, pole vault runways, and high jump pads, wrestling mats, etc.
• Measures and paints field lines for activities using outdoor fields; measures and tapes court lines on indoor courts.
• Performs the daily maintenance of the softball and baseball infields and the long jump/steeplechase pits. This includes dragging infields, raking pitcher’s mounds (natural and artificial)/bullpens/home plates/baselines/pits, watering, bailing water, installing plates, etc.
• Perform general landscaping, blowing leaves, weeding beds, mowing, and edging.
• Assembles perform basic maintenance and troubleshoot problems with equipment. This includes assembling cabinets, ballcarriers, carts, etc., and maintaining basketball backboards, rims, batting cages, nets, goal nets, windscreens, etc. Informs supervisor of need for equipment repair.
• Helps maintenance staff to hang TV’s, paint, change light bulbs, move items, etc.
• Operates department vehicles which include a pick-up truck, vans, field markers, and utility vehicles. As part of basic maintenance of these vehicles, performs general cleaning, checks oil, fills window-washer fluid, adjusts tire pressure, fills gas tank, grease exposed joints, etc. Informs supervisor of problems.
• General maintenance like painting and hanging equipment.
• Must be academically enrolled in a high school, community college, or university and pursuing a program or course of study.
• Must meet Academic Standing Requirements; students on academic suspension are not eligible for employment.
• Must meet the applicable minimal enrollment standard:
  • High School student:
    Regularly enrolled in a high school or participating in a home-schooling program.
  • Undergraduate and post-baccalaureate student: 6 credit hours per term.
  • Undergraduate international student: 12 credit hours per term.
  • Graduate student officially admitted to Graduate School: 5 credit hours…