Description

Choate has 4 openings for Summer Groundskeepers to work June-August.  This role works as part of a team and is responsible for school grounds maintenance and resolution of landscape issues to achieve a safe and attractive campus environment. 

This role has a schedule of 40 hrs per week and is considered seasonal, non-exempt, and non-benefits eligible.

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities:

Perform a variety of landscape and turf responsibilities, that includes: mowing (all types), string trimming, shrub work, plant-bed cleaning, leaf pick-up, and any other campus clean-up activities.   

Essential Physical Requirements:

• Significant physical activity required including but not limited to: bending, kneeling, stooping, working on ladders, working in tight places, lifting over 50 lbs.
• Handling of a variety of hand and power tools.
• This position works outside in the Summer and at times in inclement weather conditions.
• 6 months preferred experience in grounds keeping/landscaping activities but is not required. 

Summary

Working at Choate: Choate Rosemary Hall is a coeducational, independent secondary school located in central Connecticut with 850 boarding and day students and over 450 employees. Choate serves intellectually gifted and motivated students of diverse backgrounds from across the globe whose commitment to serious study is enhanced in an academically challenging and personally supportive setting.

Choate provides students with transformative and meaningful experiences that instill lifelong habits of learning, leadership, and service, shaped by innovative and passionate educators. Teaching faculty at Choate are innovative, collaborative, and committed to our students' intellectual, social, emotional, and character development. Our faculty understands that each of our students has the potential for growth and works to encourage students to develop their own ideas and voices in learner-centered environments.

For its students and employees alike, Choate strives to be a diverse and inclusive community where all feel valued and embraced. On our campus, principled individuals from diverse backgrounds are united through common purpose, active engagement, and mutual respect. We celebrate differences and the richness of our varied backgrounds and experiences. Recognizing that working in an inclusive community can also present challenges, we embrace those challenges through ongoing dialogue and interaction, enhancing empathy and appreciation for those whose perspectives differ from our own.

 Choate prohibits in all its programs, including hiring and employment practices, discrimination against or harassment of any member or group based upon age, gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other category protected by Connecticut or federal law, except in the case of a bona fide occupational qualification.