Personnel Position Descriptions Maintenance Worker II (Grade 15) Policy Number: C.E.S.P. 12-29 Date Revised: 2-9-2004 Supersedes: 5-14-2001

Nature and Purpose

The Maintenance Worker II is a staff member of the Cooperative Extension Service, University of Arkansas.

The Maintenance Worker II position involves the grounds maintenance of the Cooperative Extension Service state headquarters facility or Cammack campus facility.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrates grounds keeping and general labor tasks to new and/or lower-level maintenance workers.

• Operates equipment such as tractors, lawn mowers, and weed eaters to cut grass and perform other grounds maintenance tasks.

• Plants, sprays, prunes, trims, fertilizes, and waters shrubbery and trees as needed.

• Picks up trash and broken limbs.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Relationships

• Works under the supervision of the Landscape Superintendent.

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with superiors and associates.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Completion of sufficient education or training to read and write.

• One year of experience in grounds keeping and/or general labor.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

          • Ability to operate grounds keeping equipment.

• Ability to perform grounds keeping and general labor duties.

• Ability to demonstrate grounds keeping and general labor tasks to other employees.

• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.

• Ability to perform manual labor in an outdoor setting in all types of weather conditions.

• Ability to do heavy lifting (60 pounds).

• Ability to drive cars, vans, and pick-up truck with trailer. 

Approval

Ivory W. Lyles
Associate Vice President for Agriculture – Extension
December 17, 2003

The Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status.