Job Details

Salary: $21.30 - $27.69 Hourly
Location : Prescott, AZ
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2025-00229
Department: Prescott Maintenance
Opening Date: 10/29/2025

Description of Position
This is a lead position responsible for overseeing and performing all Grounds and Custodial operations at The Pines. The incumbent ensures that the campus grounds, facilities, and common areas are clean, safe, and well-maintained. Duties include grounds and landscaping work, irrigation system maintenance and repair, and the safe application of herbicides and insecticides. This position also performs a variety of semi-skilled maintenance, modification, and repair tasks, and oversees room setups, unit move-out cleaning, and daily trash and recycling disposal.
Minimum Expectations & Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in landscape and grounds maintenance
• Ability to perform grounds maintenance and landscaping (Tech I and Tech II Grounds) duties with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of irrigation system operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of water-efficient landscaping practices and responsible water resource management
• Awareness of fire-adapted landscaping principles and defensible space requirements (Firewise practices)
• Knowledge of the use and safe handling of insecticides, herbicides, and related chemicals
• Proficiency in felling trees using a chainsaw
• Knowledge or willingness to be trained on pool maintenance and daily water chemistry testing
• Knowledge or willingness to be trained on wastewater treatment systems
• Knowledge or willingness to be trained on domestic water well monitoring
• Knowledge of basic trade activities specifically related to grounds work
• Ability to operate a variety of vehicles, power equipment, and hand tools commonly used in grounds maintenance
• Ability to lift 25 pounds continuously/daily, 50 pounds occasionally, and team lift items over 50 pounds as required
• Valid Arizona driver's license
• Perform work or deliver a wide variety of items to different addresses and through different routes via loading, unloading, and operation of a YC vehicle
• Regular attendance is an essential job function, demonstrating dependability and commitment to daily responsibilities

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Valid Arizona Driver's License - Required
• The following certifications must be obtained within six (6) months of hire:
• OPM Industrial Certification
• OPM Turf and Ornamental Certification
• Arizona Weed Control Applicator Certification
• Pest Control Certification

Preferred Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and make sound decisions in the field
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, especially when interacting with campus/site personnel and the public
• Ability to represent the Grounds department and Facilities team professionally and tactfully
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks, manage time effectively, and follow through on assignments
• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic work environment with changing priorities
• Strong customer service orientation with a proactive approach to resolving site-level concerns
• Familiarity with Firewise landscaping practices and a proactive approach to maintaining defensible space
• Commitment to sustainable water use, including conservation-focused irrigation and plant selection
• Experience working in a community college or higher education environment is a plus

Essential Functions
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and competencies listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Valid AZ Driver's License. High school diploma or GED equivalent.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use fingers and hands to handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, occasionally lift 50 pounds and occasionally team lift and/or move over 50 pounds.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Yavapai College offers its full-time employees a comprehensive benefit package:

HEALTH/LIFE BENEFITS

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance: College's partial payment of premiums toward medical with pharmacy and/or dental plan options picked by employees for themselves (and eligible dependents)
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Pre-tax pay deductions to use for eligible medical or dependent daycare costs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling and referral services for employees and their immediate families for depression, stress, family/marital conflict, and alcohol/drug issues
• Vision: Provides an amount per plan year for eligible expenses such as vision exams, lenses, frames, prescription sunglasses, and contact lenses
• Life Insurance: The College provides Basic Life Insurance coverage at twice of the employee's annual salary. Dependents have automatic coverage of $2,000/spouse and $1,000/per child if enrolled in medical plan.
• Voluntary Individual And Family Term Life Insurance: Additional term life insurance coverage available for employee, spouse and children.
• Other Insurance Coverage: Short Term and Long Term Disability (replacement income insurance), and Workers' Compensation (compensation, medical expenses and death benefits for on-the-job injuries or occupational diseases)

RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Retirement Benefits: Arizona State Retirement System or Optional Retirement Plan, and Social Security (which provides a basic retirement annuity based on age and years of contribution)
• Tax Deferred Annuities: Employees' contributions to designated tax-deferred annuities
• Unemployment Compensation: Employees who are laid off or terminated may receive benefits if covered wages meet requirements

LEAVE BENEFITS

• Vacation : 10 days of Vacation leave annually. NOTE: For employees who work an amount of contractual days, there will be no earned vacation.
• Sick Leave: 12 days sick leave annually. NOTE: Employees working less than full time or an amount of contractual days will receive a proration of sick leave.
• Personal Leave: Use of up to three personal leave days per year which are charged against accumulated sick leave to take care of items of personal business
• Other Leave: Bereavement leave, Civic Duty Leave (Jury duty, active military duty, military training), and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Holidays: 24 days during the year as paid holidays for full-time employees which include Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, 3 days at Thanksgiving, Winter/year end break (10 days), Martin Luther King Day, Spring Break, Memorial Day, and Juneteenth.

OTHER BENEFITS

• Breaking Bread: 32 meal swipes for use at the Prescott Campus Eatery. All Other Campuses and Sites receive a $140 credit each semester (fall and spring) to be used at the Open Market on campus/center
• Spanish Interpreter Incentive Program: Employees interested in additional compensation for their Spanish speaking skills agree to assist YC by attending two recruiting events and being available for Spanish Interpretation needs as they arise. Compensation is added to the employee's regular pay at the rate of $175 per month. Employees that are interested in participating let your HR Business partner know, so they can schedule you for the ACTFL language proficiency test at the YC testing center.
• Direct Deposit: Paychecks deposited directly into the employee's bank account(s)
• Tuition Waiver: Eligible Full-time Faculty and Staff, their legally married spouse, and eligible dependents may enroll in a partial or full program of coursework without payment of tuition, exceptions may be lab fees and market-based additional fees
• Sabbatical: Faculty, professional, and administrative staff may apply for compensated leave of up to a year after six years of continuous service
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Additional Benefits and Services: Local community discounts to faculty and staff, computer loan program, mail and notary service.