GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR - FLETC CHARLESTON (CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD) - Chugach Government Solutions

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Grounds Maintenance Supervisor will manage the total work effort associated with the grounds maintenance services required to ensure fully adequate and timely completion of services. Included in this function will be a full range of management duties including, but not limited to, planning, scheduling, report preparation, and quality control. This position requires professional knowledge of turf, plants, plant bedding, soil, tree maintenance, pruning, removal; and other landscape issues required. In the event of a disagreement as to the time and frequency for a particular task, the government reserves the right to increase or decrease the times and frequency. The contractor will perform all the tasks and performance requirements outlined in Section C-5.E.5 below. Upon the Contracting Officer’s request, the contractor shall provide a schedule of all tasks to be performed, including times and frequencies.

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD. CHUGACH WILL ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM INCUMBENTS CURRENTLY HOLDING THE SAME POSITION.

Essential Duties & Job Functions: 

• Manages and performs grounds maintenance activities to include mowing, trimming, edging, pruning, and weed control.
• Provides oversight and development of grounds maintenance staff.
• Coordinates with the PM and appropriate Government staff to ensure all grounds maintenance work is completed in a timely manner.
• Works with the PM and appropriate Government staff to review weekly and monthly grounds reports to determine if there are any current or potential issues. Makes recommendations for solutions and ensures solutions are implemented by appropriate staff.
• Evaluates resident complaints and damage reports and makes recommendations for future actions.
• Monitor and inspect the quality of work completed by all the grounds maintenance teams and contractors.
• Ensures all projects and ongoing tree management plans are structured, coordinated, verified and completed in accordance with company standards.
• Assists in the identification and resolution of grounds issues.
• Assist in coordinating groundskeeper team training, truck stock inventories, vacation planning, and company meetings. Submits requests for temporary employees as needed while managing labor within budgetary constraints.

Mandatory:

• Possesses an Associate’s Degree in Horticulture Technology, Landscape Architecture, Floriculture or Arboriculture.
• Possesses at least three (3) years of recent (within the past 10 years) responsible experience in field management of commercial/industrial grounds maintenance of the approximate size of FLETC Charleston.
• Possesses specific experience in scheduling and supervising a grounds workforce, as well as long term planning to prevent plant health and maintenance issues for acreage the approximate size of the FLETC Charleston facility.
• Demonstrated professional skills and knowledge in planning for and establishing the structural organization needed to maintain grounds as described in the SOW.
• Possesses professional knowledge of turf, plants, plant bedding, soil, tree maintenance, pruning, removal, fertilizer application, weed control, and other landscape issues.
• Proficiency in oral and written communications in English.

Reasonable Accommodation:
It is CGS, LLC business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Chugach is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.