Job Description
Salary : $60,465.60 - $64,147.20 Annually
Location : Imperial, CA
Job Type: Classified Regular
Job Number: 25-049
Division: Maintenance & Operations
Opening Date: 05/27/2025
Closing Date: 6/11/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
Representative Duties BASIC FUNCTION: Under the direction of an assigned supervisor, the Lead Grounds Maintenance Technician plans, organizes, oversees, trains, and schedules the work of the ground's maintenance technicians; participates in and ensures the maintenance of District grounds.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Incumbents in this classification are responsible for leading, overseeing, and scheduling ground maintenance work; ensures duties are performed per standards and procedures. The Lead Grounds Maintenance Technician role requires full knowledge of ground maintenance practices, procedures, equipment use, and safety standards.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: The following duties and responsibilities describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be restricted or construed as an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required of individuals so classified, and not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each employee in this classification.
1. Train, lead, plan, organize, and monitor ground maintenance staff and their work, ensuring all District grounds and landscaped areas are maintained in a clean, safe, appealing, and efficient manner, per procedure.
2. Schedule and deploy staff to meet regular grounds maintenance needs and priorities, as well as seasonal, weather condition and emergency demands. Ensure grounds, turf, fields, and irrigation/watering needs are scheduled, prepared, and completed for athletic and other special events.
3. Assists with ensuring employment-related processes of ground's staff are completed per procedure and appropriate documentation and records are kept.
4. Monitor and inspect District grounds, turf, and landscaping work. Coach and train ground maintenance staff on proper techniques, procedures, standards, and safety measures.
5. Plan, oversee, and perform ground maintenance installation and repair needs, including irrigation/watering systems, fencing and other features, parking lots, and walkways. Coordinate with outside vendors on projects as assigned.
6. Plan, organize, order, receive, maintain, and disperse supplies and equipment, ensuring adequate supply and cost-effective purchasing. Ensure equipment and tools are properly cleaned, maintained, repaired, and replaced as needed.
7. Participate in budget development, review, and management as assigned. Evaluate and recommend ground maintenance products and equipment.
8. Plan, coordinate, lead, and perform ground's needs in support of campus and community events.
9. Operate ground maintenance equipment and machinery and perform ground maintenance duties as required or assigned.
10.Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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Minimum Qualifications EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or GED and three (3) years of experience in ground maintenance, landscaping, or a related field.
Certificates, Licenses, Special Requirements: Certain assignments may require a valid California driver's license and the ability to maintain insurability under the district's vehicle insurance program.
IMPORTANT: To be considered for the position applying for, applicants must submit the required items by the deadline, which include: online IVC application, current resume, and ALL unofficial transcripts (transcripts must show degree was awarded or conferred with a completion date). All attachments will be uploaded into the online application. Applications which do not include all of the required materials will not be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration. Materials submitted become property of the District and will not be returned, copied, or considered for other openings. Supplemental Information RANGE 19 ON THE CLASSIFIED SALARY SCHEDULE: Initial Salary placement is normally at Step 1, no higher than Step 3. Please click here to review current salary schedule.
EEO Information Imperial Valley College is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, or covered veteran status.
COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND DIVERSITY With the goal of ensuring the equal educational opportunity of all students, Imperial Valley College embraces diversity among students, faculty, staff, and the communities we serve as an integral part of our history, a recognition of the complexity of our present state, and a call to action for a better future. Embracing diversity means that we must intentionally practice equity and respect toward one another, and understand that discrimination and prejudices create and sustain privileges for some while creating and sustaining barriers for others. In order to embrace diversity, we also acknowledge that institutional discrimination and implicit bias exist, and that our goal is to eradicate those vestiges from our system. Our commitment to diversity requires that we strive to eliminate those barriers to equity, and that we act deliberately to create a safe and positive environment where individual and group differences are valued and leveraged for our growth and understanding as an educational community.
To advance the goals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice for the success of students and employees, we must honor that each individual is unique and that our individual differences contribute to the ability of the college to prepare students on their educational journeys. This requires that we develop and implement policies and procedures, encourage individual and systemic change, continually reflect on our efforts, and hold ourselves accountable for the results of our efforts in accomplishing our goals.
We are invested as a community in cultivating and maintaining a climate where equity and mutual respect are both intrinsic and explicit by valuing individuals and groups from all backgrounds, demographics, and experiences. Individual and group differences can include, but are not limited to the following dimensions: race, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, immigration status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, religion, creed, military or veteran status, socioeconomic status, and any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation. We acknowledge that the concept of inclusion and diversity is ever-evolving, thus we create space to allow our understanding to grow through the periodic review of this statement. In service of these goals, Imperial Valley College is committed to fostering an employment environment that offers equal employment opportunity for all and an educational environment that ensures the equal educational opportunity of all students.
THE COLLEGE Imperial Valley College is co-recipient of the 2023 Aspen Award for Community College Excellence. It offers a full range of associate degrees, professional certificates and basic skills courses as well as a comprehensive array of university transfer and education courses. IVC has an annual full-time enrollment of more than 10,000 students. The Aspen award committee noted that IVC has created one of the nation's most effective partnerships with local K-12 systems and has excelled in graduation rates and post-graduation success of its student population. Its student success is based upon IVC's work in eliminating barriers, addressing student challenges and fostering a culture of care in a rural area with high rates of poverty and traditionally low rates of educational attainment. Imperial Valley College is known throughout the region for its outstanding career programs, excellent programs of study in business, quality allied health, renewable energy and public safety programs and for excellent transfer and general education courses. IVC is also a major economic engine in Imperial County. It is responsible for infusing millions of dollars annually into the local economy through its construction projects, general operations and annual earnings of its current students and graduates. For additional details regarding Imperial Valley College click here.
Employer/employee paid medical coverage options, dental, vision, and life insurance. For additional information, click
Earned annual sick leave.
Earned annual vacation leave for classified and confidential classified employees.
Enrollment in a California Retirement System.
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Please answer the following questions specifically and completely. These supplemental questions will be used with other application materials to screen applicants for interview. Applicants should submit at least one well-developed paragraph for each pf the supplemental questions. Answers should be thoughtful, substantive, carefully edited and may be much longer than one paragraph. If your response exceeds the maximum 600 character limit, you may continue your response by attaching an additional typed document. Please make sure to identify the questions by number. I have read and understand the above statements.
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Supplemental Question A: What in your background and experience make you particularly well suited for this position at Imperial Valley College?
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Supplemental Question B: How do you define Diversity? Please share an example of how your personal and professional experience have informed your perspective on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). How do you plan to integrate DEIA in your position?
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Supplemental Question C: Discuss your experience working with diverse populations. How do you encourage and empower students from all backgrounds and abilities to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals? Please provide examples to help us better understand.
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