Maintenance Mechanic 3- Grounds / Nursery

Plan garden in conjunction with Food Services staff to best fill the needs of the institution. Plant, irrigate, fertilized, cultivate, spray, and harvest up to 30 acres of garden. Supervise and train up to 10 incarcerated individuals in farm techniques and equipment. Design, install, repair and maintain irrigation systems.
Maintain and care for a 6,000 sq. ft. greenhouse/nursery.
Maintain lawn, landscaping, right of ways, and security areas.
Perform skilled work in more than one trade or craft. Perform construction, maintenance, repair, modification of buildings, facilities, mechanical equipment, machinery, and specific apparatus. Utilize knowledge of several related skill fields such as plumbing, welding, and carpentry.
Primary function is to provide supervision and training in the landscaping, grounds maintenance, and greenhouse functions.
- Supervise up to 10 incarcerated individuals carrying out various phases of programing; give technical assistance in gardening, floriculture, tree culture, and surgery and landscaping.
-Supervise assign personnel in mowing, fertilizing, harvesting, irrigating, and maintaining lawns, gardens, shrubs, trees, and greenhouse or nursery functions.
-Formulate and submit for administrative approval annual operating plans for a very large program of grounds maintenance, gardening, greenhouse and nursery operation.
-Formulate crew work schedules to coincide with appropriate dates for ground preparation, planting, transplanting, circulating, cultivating, spraying, cutting and pruning.
-Plan and develop campus landscaping and gardening projects; monitor landscapes installations and other special projects including use of fill dirt, decorative rock walls, terraces and other arrangements.
-Maintain departmental records; write reports on grounds maintenance operations.
-Determine cost and availability of work materials needed by readying plans and blueprints; inspect project progress
-Supervise operation of a greenhouse used in propagation and care of bedding plants, flowers, and shrubs.
- Assist in developing departmental budget, policies and procedures.
- Apply pesticides at the facility to reduce pest and rodent populations on facility grounds.
Perform Maintenance Mechanic 3 duties in one or more trade or craft at the skilled and semi-skilled levels.
-Assist with repairs, remodels, framing walls, rafters, roofs, hangs, tapes, finishes and paints interior sheet rock walls.
-Installs, maintains, and repairs pipes, valves, drains, basins, faucets, lavatories, and irrigation equipment
-Constructs forms and pours concrete using a wood float and steel trowel to finish the cement; builds concrete and wood cribbing; lays concrete blocks and bricks.
-Perform preventative maintenance of mechanical equipment, vehicles, and equipment associated with grounds maintenance and garden functions.
-Operate class A equipment during snow and ice removal.
Perform Maintenance Mechanic 3 duties in other areas as assigned by the Facility Manager and Plant Manager 3s.
-Work in any of the areas that require a Maintenance Mechanic 3. Those areas include, but are not limited to, recycle (waste management), carpentry, painting, and facility maintenance.
-Assist other shop supervisors with their ongoing projects by working with them or supervising their crew in their absence.
- Perform WSP farm duties as the back up when necessary to maintain current crop production levels.
Required:

• High School Diploma or G.E.D.
• Two years experience in grounds and nursery maintenance.
• Valid Driver's License
• Washington State Department of Agriculture pesticide license 03 Public Operator or the ability to obtain one within 12 months.

Preferred/Desired:

• Apprenticeship program certification in a skilled mechanic trade
• One (1) year of experience as a journey level worker in building and equipment maintenance, construction or repair work.
• Four (4) years' grounds and nursery experience.
• Herbicide/Pesticide License.
• Intermediate skill level in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, WORD, Excel).

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IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Please include a minimum of three professional references with your application. A professional reference is defined as an individual who has been paid to supervise your work and can attest to your work performance, technical skills, and job competencies. If you do not have any or sufficient professional references, please include non-related professionals, such as educators or other professional associates.

Phone number AND email address are required for all professional references.

• Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant's suitability and competence to perform in the position.
• Employees may work directly with or in close proximity to incarcerated individuals in a potentially hazardous setting. Please consider this when deciding whether to apply.
• We are committed to maintaining a drug and alcohol free work environment, and our employees are expected to comply with all state and federal laws. A pre-employment drug test may be administered as part of the selection process, and applicants who test positive for any controlled substances, will be disqualified from consideration.
• Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) is an aerosol pepper spray made available as a means of self-defense and/or de-escalation. Applicants with sensitivities or allergies are encouraged to ask about the level of exposure they could expect in this position.
• Animal care projects are a common component of most Washington State prisons, including dog and cat programs. Applicants with animal sensitivities or allergies are encouraged to ask about the level of exposure they could expect in this position.
• Tuberculosis (TB) is a priority health issue for DOC employees. The successful candidate may be required to provide valid proof of a baseline TB skin test within 60 days from the date of hire. When positive tests result, further information, testing and treatment may also be required. Employment is not contingent upon test results.
• This position may be represented by a Union Shop.

We are committed to hiring individuals who possess core diversity competencies:

• Foster a positive attitude and openness toward the ever changing social and cultural makeup of the workplace.
• Work effectively with people of different perspectives, abilities, disabilities, races, religions, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• Respectfully acknowledge people's differences and recognize these differences as important and valuable.
• Promote inclusiveness.
• Be culturally sensitive and appropriate.
• Respect and value diverse backgrounds and traditions.

DOC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, honorably discharged veteran, veteran status, genetic information, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability.
For questions about this recruitment, or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email ctcooper@doc1.wa.gov or call us at (509) 526-6343. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.Employment Type: Full Time - Permanent