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$50K - 70K a year
Plan, organize, and supervise all grounds maintenance functions including safety, budgeting, equipment management, and team training to meet quality and environmental standards.
High school diploma or equivalent with preferred experience in large facility grounds maintenance and strong leadership and organizational skills.
JOB DESCRIPTION Position: Grounds Maintenance Manager Location: Spring Hill, TN Job Type: On-site (100%) Reports to: Complex Manager Department: North American Operations Position Purpose: Effectively plan, organize, and supervise all functions of grounds maintenance including safety, people, facility planning, budgeting, sustainability, equipment management, and project management. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Demonstrates the values and business principles of Leadec. • Works safely at all times. • Ensure the safe operation of teams through regular communications, work observations and modeling a "Safety, it's Your Life" mentality. • Effectively communicate necessary information and status updates to manager and customer. • Effectively communicate necessary information and status updates to manager and customer. • Incorporate "PDCA" (Plan, Do, Check, Act) mindset into regular routine. • Develop and maintain KPI metrics and communicate monthly. • Focuses on labor, equipment, and tools allocation, best practice guidelines, and continuous improvement. • Manage all required Leadec and customer reporting processes. • Actively attend all required meetings. • Develop and maintain strong standardized work. • Reduce safety risk within all tasks assigned. • Adhering to and supporting all EHS and Quality objectives, in accordance with ISO 14001, 45001 and 9001 respectively • All other duties assigned by Leadec Manager. • Plan and schedule team members to ensure site maintenance and care that meets customer delivery and quality standards. • Ensure team is well trained and compliant with all standardized work associated with task. • Promote and continuously improve quality standards and scheduled delivery of grass mowing, trimming, and weed control services to manage vegetation growth while minimizing negative impact to the environment. • Protect the appearance of plants, turf, and trees by understanding and applying methods to support plant health and care. • Monitor, repair, order and replace campus road signage when required. • Maintain site fire ponds, waterways, dams, and streams. • Maintain grounds equipment through the PM maintenance program to ensure equipment is ready for operation and performs to schedule. • Manage the site snow plan assuring that materials, equipment, personnel, and contract labor are trained, and ready for deployment. • Manage animal control through contract with USDA. • Manage outside pest control through contract with pest service provider. • Manage outside rack and storage areas. • Manage site boundaries by repairing fences, mowing access roads and management of vegetation. • Develop and administer environmental projects to promote and sustain the site. • Develop plans to continually beautify the site. • Support special site events. • Adhering to and supporting all EHS and Quality objectives, in accordance with ISO 14001, 45001 and 9001 respectively. • All other duties as assigned by Leadec manager. Competencies: • Managing Tasks • Open Communication • Self-Management • Motivating & Developing People Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: • Communication Skills - Ability to communicate with all levels of Leadec and customer employees. • Language Ability -- Talking to others to convey information effectively. • Customer Service Orientation- Satisfying customers. • Adaptability- Willingness to deal with unexpected challenges or circumstances. • Problem Solving- Defines complex problems and brings about viable solutions. • Leadership -- Serve as a responsible company representative. • Practices a continuous improvement approach to all activities. • Understand the grounds industry standards and best practices. • Certified grounds manager or technician is preferred. • Experience in management of large and complex grounds organizations. • Ability to learn, embrace and apply GMS Principles to grounds operations. • 5S organization. • Strong leadership skills with experience in managing diverse teams. • Effective interpersonal communication skills. • Strong organizational and planning skills. • Ability to lead and coach / train others. • Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite -- including Excel, Word, Power-point (or similar). Position Qualifications: • High School Diploma or equivalent. • Previous experience in a large facility and grounds maintenance is preferred. Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the key actions of the job: • Required to talk and/or hear in an industrial setting (noise level is moderate). Frequently required to stand and walk on concrete surfaces for 4 -12 hours. Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; lift; climb or balance; kneel, crawl, stoop, or crouch. • Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and focus adjustment. • Work is performed in an industrial-manufacturing environment with occasional time spent working on a computer or at a desk. As described in the job description
This job posting was last updated on 12/4/2025