College Groundskeeper Jobs in Riverside, CA (NOW HIRING)

Salary: $23.23 - $25.61 Hourly
Location : San Bernardino Valley College 701 S. Mt. Vernon St, San Bernardino, CA
Job Type: Classified - Full-Time
Job Number: 2426-00173
Department: Grounds
Opening Date: 08/06/2026
Closing Date: 9/6/2026 11:59 PM Pacific
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 07:00am to 03:30pm
HR Recruiter: Ben Dijkstra
Work Days/Year: 260
Mission Statement: San Bernardino Valley College provides innovative instructional programs and cohesive student services to support the educational goals of a culturally diverse community of learners by engaging in continuous improvement and actively working towards an antiracist culture to foster an environment of meaningful learning and belonging for our students, employees, and the community.
Job Description
Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job; however, any additional duties will be reasonably related to this class.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
Performs a variety of grounds maintenance and repair work in the care and maintenance of District grounds including landscaped areas and athletic fields
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives general direction from appropriate supervisor; checks with supervisor regarding non-routine assignments. May provide technical and functional direction to assigned student workers.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES
The following duties are typical for this classification.

1. Performs routine ground maintenance duties on District ground including landscaped areas and athletic fields; mows, edges, weeds and maintains lawns, fields, flowerbeds and other landscaped areas; trims and prunes shrubs, hedges, and trees; applies repellents and pesticides.
2. Maintains lawns, grounds, and other cultivated areas; prepares areas for planting by clearing, grading, fertilizing, and watering ground; prepares areas for flowerbeds by roto-tiling, weed oiling, and laying plastic; plant flowers, shrubs, trees; and lays rock.
3. Picks up leaves, paper and trash in grounds areas; cleans and removes weeds from areas such as sidewalks, parking lots, and roads; dumps trash cans; removes rodents and/or reptiles from campus area as necessary.
4. Operates a variety of grounds maintenance equipment and tools, including gang movers, roto-tillers, tractors, blowers, edger's, saws, and other similar equipment; performs equipment safety inspections.
5. Maintains and performs minor maintenance on hand and basic power mowers, sweepers, saws, and other similar grounds tools; makes minor repairs such as sharpening blades.
6. May assist in repairing potholes, mixing concrete, marking athletic fields or parking lots, moving permanent exterior furniture, digging trenches, sign or fence postholes.
7. Operates and assists in the installation, maintenance, and repair of the District's irrigation system as assigned.
8. Cleans storm drainage systems as assigned.
9. Assumes assigned responsibility for the use of application of pesticides.
10. Maintains special cultivated areas on District properties such as, but not limited to golf course greens, athletic fields, specimen areas, green belts, planters and turf areas.
11. Utilizes proper safety precautions related to all work performed.
12. Uses computers in the processing of work requests, campus/district communication, and material and/or information searches.
13. Perform other duties related to the primary job duties.

The following generally describes the knowledge and ability required to enter the job and/or be learned within a short period of time in order to successfully perform the assigned duties.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Environmental Exposure Tolerance

• Performing under physically demanding conditions
• Accepts and endures the necessity of working in unpleasant or physically demanding conditions
• Shows established adaptation and performance under unpleasant or physically demanding conditions

Safety Focus

• Showing vigilance and care in identifying and addressing health risks and safety hazards
• Maintains high level of conscientious safety practice

General Physical Ability

• Using strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination
• Applying motor and perceptual abilities requiring no specific technique, training or conditioning

Professional and Technical Expertise

• Applying technical subject matter to the job **
• Knows the rudimentary concepts of performing the essential technical operations

Adaptability

• Responding positively to change and modifying behavior as the situation requires**
• Accept and adjust to changes and the unfamiliar

Innovation

• Imagining and devising new and better ways of doing things**
• Fix what is broken; find solutions and fixes with resources at hand
• Finds new approaches to performing familiar tasks
• Create and invent new ideas; envision the unexpected, unexplored, untried**

Critical Thinking

• Analytically and logically evaluates information to resolve problems
• Follow guide, SOP or other step by step procedures for locating the source of a problem and fixing it
• May detect ambiguous, incomplete, or conflicting information or instructions**

Informing

• Proactively obtaining and sharing information

Mechanical Insight

• Chooses the right tool for the job
• Applies principles of mechanical advantage to get the work done
• Follows step-by-step assembly procedures, troubleshooting guides, and simple diagrams

Customer Focus

• Attending to the needs and expectations of customer
• Seeks information about the immediate and longer term needs of the customer
• Anticipates what the customer may want or expect in a product or service
• Works across organizational boundaries to meet customer needs **

Attention to Detail

• Focusing on the details of work content
• Shows care and thoroughness in adhering to process and procedures that assure quality
• Applies knowledge and skill in recognizing and evaluating details of work**
• Applies skilled final touches on products

Using Technology

• Working with electronic hardware and software applications
• Using basic features and functions of software and hardware

Valuing Diversity

• Shows acceptance of individual differences
• Welcomes input and inclusion of others who may be different from oneself
• Shows understanding and empathy for the challenges of groups seeking inclusion or dealing with perceived discrimination

**Lead, Advanced or Senior Level Positions
Qualifications
Education/Training:

• Equivalent to completion of high school.

Experience:

• Six (6) months of general grounds maintenance experience in at least one of the following: irrigation systems, gold course greens, pesticide application, or hardscape repair.

License or Certificate:

• Possession of a valid driver's license.
• Possession of, or ability to obtain, within eight (8) months of employment, at District's expense, a California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Qualified Applicator Certificate (QAC) for the use and application of chemical pesticides within or adjacent to District properties.

Desired qualifications:

• Commercial irrigation controller experience.
• Commercial landscape equipment experience.
• Asphalt repair experience.
• Experience in workorder systems.

Physical Demands and Working Environment
The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Environment: Work is performed primarily in an outdoor field environment; travel from site to site; exposure to potentially hazardous chemicals, noxious weeds and plants, pollens, insect stings, noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, noxious odors, gases, and all types of weather and temperature conditions; works near moving mechanical parts; work and/or walk on various types of surfaces including slippery or uneven surfaces and rough terrain.
Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in a field environment; walk and stand for prolonged periods of time' frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, and twist; to frequently push, pull lift, and/or carry moderate to heavy amounts of weight up to 50 pounds; to occasionally lift, carry, push, and/or pull heavier amounts of weight with or without assistance; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate specialized hand and power tools and equipment; operate assigned equipment and vehicles; verbally communicate to exchange information.
Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents; and to operate assigned equipment.
Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.
Employment Requirements
The person selected for hire will be required to complete the following pre-employment requirements:

• Submit to and successfully pass DOJ live scan/fingerprinting. Cost of live-scan services to be borne by candidate.
• Sealed official transcript(s) in envelope from institution or electronic copies emailed directly from institution (for positions with higher education requirement)
• Tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment
• Other pre-employment requirements may be required depending on the position (i.e. certifications or licenses; see job posting qualifications section for details).

Successful completion of all pre-employment requirements is mandatory to be eligible for employment. These requirements are in accordance with the San Bernardino Community College District's
FORECASTED RECRUITMENT TIMELINE
Internal HR Screening:
9/7/2-9/8/26
Testing:
9/8/26-9/15/26
1st Level Interviews:
9/28/26-10/6/26
2nd Level Interviews:
10/7/26-10/12/26
Board Date:
11/13/26
Projected Hire Date:
11/16/26
You have medical, dental and vision plans from which to choose coverage. You may cover yourself, spouse or domestic partner and eligible children. Coverage is effective on the first of the calendar month following your date of hire.
HEALTH CARE
Medical Benefits- You may choose between seven medical plans:

• Anthem Blue Cross PPO Gold - Copay Only (offered at no cost)
• Anthem Blue Cross CA Care Classic HMO (offered at no cost)
• Anthem Blue Cross CA Care Premier HMO
• Anthem Blue Cross PPO 100A
• Anthem Blue Cross PPO 90C
• Kaiser Permanente $15 HMO
• Kaiser Permanente $30 HMO

Dental Benefits- You may choose between two dental plans:

• DeltaCare USA HMO (offered at no cost)
• Delta Dental PPO.

Vision Benefits - Vision coverage is provided through EyeMed (offered at no cost)
CASH IN LIEU BENEFIT
The district offers a taxable $250 monthly stipend to a benefits eligible employee who waives medical coverage under SBCCD's group plan because that employee has other group coverage (e.g., a spouse's plan, parents' plan, or other employer's plan).
LIFE INSURANCE
Term Life and Accidental, Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance - The district provides a $50,000 basic term life insurance policy and $50,000 of basic accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) policy. The district pays the full cost of this coverage. Coverage is automatic and effective on the first of the month after your date of hire. Employees are also provided opportunity to enroll in optional term life and AD&D policies for themselves as well as spouse/domestic partner and children.
VOLUNTARY BENEFIT PLANS
The district partners with American Fidelity to administer the district's voluntary benefit plans which include:

• Disability insurance
• Cancer insurance
• Accident insurance
• Flexible spending accounts

PRE-TAX RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN - As a district employee, you have two voluntary retirement savings plans available to you, which allow you to invest pre-tax dollars to supplement your CalPERS Retirement Plan benefit. They are a 403(b) plan or 457(b) plan.
You may participate in one or both of the plans. Each is governed by a different section of the IRS Code resulting in different rules and provisions. SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is the districts third party administrators for all retirement savings plans.
RETIREMENT PLANS
CalPERS Retirement Plan - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is a defined benefit retirement plan that provides lifetime benefits based on members' years of service, age, and final compensation. Full-time employees in non-academic positions appointed for at least six months, or part-time employees working at least 50% and appointed for at least one year, are automatically enrolled in the CalPERS retirement plan. Depen