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Under the supervision of the Stadium Director and/or Head Stadium Attendant at an assigned Chicago Public Schools stadium, performs general stadium maintenance and grounds-keeping duties, and performs related duties as required.

Principal Accountabilities

1.   Maintains athletic fields used for various sports activities and events and ensures that stadium grounds are kept in good condition.   Duties include aerating, seeding, fertilizing, watering, cutting. weeding and disease and pest control of all grass surfaces.  Plants sod and rolls and levels athletic fields as necessary.  Also maintains artificial grass surfaces and running tracks.

2.   Maintains cleanliness of outside stadium areas by disposing of debris from shrubs, fields, parking lots and sidewalks; performs graffiti removal and snow removal.

3.   Marks and prepares fields for various sporting events, such as baseball diamonds, football and soccer fields and track and field. Responsible for transport and set up of equipment and apparatuses used for winter and spring interscholastic and citywide sports competition.

4.    Performs interior maintenance and cleaning to locker rooms, officials' rooms, lavatories, offices and other small rooms.  Washes windows and repairs broken windows.

5.   Performs minor carpentry, plumbing and painting duties in order to maintain stadium in good working condition.

6.   Performs general maintenance and repairs to stadium equipment and machinery.

7.   In the absence of clock operators maintains and repairs time clocks, and scoreboards.

8.   Drains and winterizes all water systems and underground sprinkler systems as needed.

9.    Properly stores, uses, transports, and disposes of all chemicals used at stadium.

Qualifications for Job:

Skills:

Skill in performing basic grounds keeping and maintenance work; skill in the use of pertinent tools and equipment; ability to follow written and oral instructions, ability to complete basic reports; knowledge of the basic rules of major sports

Type of Education Required:

Graduation from high school or GED equivalent.

Type of Experience and Number of Years:

At least one year of general semi-skilled labor experience.