• Job Description

  Req#: 237945

  Occupational Summary

  Perform a variety of duties as a care taker of the Duke University Golf Club grounds. This includes safely operating and maintaining the golf course maintenance equipment in accordance with your established schedules, within your job description and by the instruction assigned by you supervisor.

  · Be responsible for understanding OSHA Safety Rules and comply with the Duke University Employee Work Rules and Policies.

  · Maintain and improve lines of communication with your supervisors and fellow workers.

  · Work as a team member but at the same time provide team leadership on your various maintenance duty assignments.

  Work Performed

  · Develop expertise through training on numerous pieces of equipment. With in your everyday work you will inspect and operate golf course mechanical and power driven equipment to include power mowers rotary and reel, utility vehicle, backhoe, front end loader, top dresser, roto-tiller, spray rigs, and irrigation equipment.

  · Operate light equipment as required to maintain golf course grounds in a tournament ready condition.

  · Perform preventative maintenance on all equipment, as needed or directed, to include cleaning, changing oil, lubricating and painting the golf course equipment.

  · Learn and utilize our required “maintenance checklist” prior to operating any equipment especially to include checking of oil and gas levels prior to turning on the engine.

  · After thorough training, you will be able to apply herbicides, your supervisors’ instruction and/or established schedules.

  · Perform other Golf Course related duties incidental to the work described herein as assigned by the Administrative Head Golf Course Superintendent and/or the Associate Golf Course Superintendents.

  Supervision

  · Position reports directly to the Administrative Head Golf Course Superintendent and/or the Associate Golf Course Superintendents.

  Minimum Qualifications

  Education

  Work requires an educational background normally equivalent a high school with course work in skilled crafts or trades training.

  Experience

  Work requires 1 year experience in maintaining grounds and landscape OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE to acquire knowledge in the operation and maintenance of grounds and landscape equipment.

  Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

  Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

  Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

• About the company

  Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina.

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