Job Details

TJJD - GROUNDSKEEPER II - (GNS) - 56729

Organization: Texas Juvenile Justice Department

Primary Location: Texas-Gainesville

Work Locations: Gainesville 1379 FM 678 Gainesville 76240-7546

Job: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair

Employee Status: Regular

Schedule: Full-time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

State Job Code: 803300

Salary (Pay Basis): $2,575.83-$3,547.58 (Monthly)

Number of Openings: 1

Overtime Status: Non-exempt

Job Posting: Mar 6, 2026

Closing Date: Jun 5, 2026

General Description: Performs grounds maintenance work involving caring for and maintaining the appearance of grounds, gardens, and exterior areas of buildings, and maintaining and caring for groundskeeping tools, supplies, and equipment.

Essential Functions:

• Mows and trims grass.
• Prepares ground for planting.
• Trims, waters, removes, and plants trees, flowers, and shrubs.
• Operates powered equipment such as mowers, tractors, chain saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, and pruning shears.
• Removes dirt, rubbish, and refuse from grounds.
• Cleans groundskeeping tools, equipment, and supplies.
• Services, repairs, and performs preventive maintenance on groundskeeping equipment.
• Drives trucks to pick up or haul materials, supplies, and dirt.
• Mixes, sprays or spreads fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, flowers, and trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders.
• Inspects for pests and diseases and takes steps for their eradication.
• Facilitates the set-up of events on the grounds.
• Paint various locations and items on campus.
• Will be required to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Groundskeeper II: Performs moderately complex journey-level grounds and building maintenance work. Works under general supervision, with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Employees at this level may work more independently than the previous levels, and they may routinely assist other staff in performing work of greater complexity. Employees at this level may:

• Repair and perform preventive maintenance work on fountains, planters, parking lots, driveways, roads, fences, and sidewalks.
• Inspect building exteriors and parking facilities for cleanliness, completion of requested work, and needed repairs.
• Facilitate the set-up of events on the grounds.
• Conduct minor facility and equipment repairs and installations.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent and 1 year experience in groundskeeping work. This position is subject to mandatory pre-employment drug testing and any offer of employment is contingent upon acceptable results from a drug screen conducted for the agency.

Registration, Certification, or Licensure Required: A valid driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of planting and care of trees, shrubbery, flowers, and grasses
• Skill in the use of groundskeeping hand and tools and equipment, in the operation of motorized and gas-powered equipment, and in the maintenance and repair of sidewalks and parking lots.
• Ability to maintain and care for hand tools, power tools and equipment.
• Knowledge of pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides
• Knowledge of the use and operation of hand tools, power tools and equipment.
• Ability to detect disease in trees, shrubbery, flowers and grasses

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
• Ability to see
• Ability to hear (with aid)
• Ability to perform tactile discernment
• Identify colors
• Depth perception
• Operate motor equipment
• Heavy lifting, 45 lbs. & over
• Heavy carrying, 45 lbs. & over
• Climbing ladders
• Climbing stairs
• Pulling
• Pushing
• Repeated bending
• Reaching above shoulder
• Dual simultaneous grasping
• Finger/manual dexterity
• Walking
• Standing
• Sitting
• Crawling
• Twisting
• Kneeling
• Stooping

Veterans:

In order to receive veteran's preference, a copy of your DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty), VA disability rating (if applicable), or a DD Form 1300 (Report of Casualty) must be attached to your application. Go to or for assistance translating your military experience and training courses into civilian job terms, qualifications/requirements, and skill sets. Additional Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) Code or Crosswalk information is available from the Texas State Auditor's Office at Maintenance MOS Codes.

Additional Information:

• If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.
• Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not accept telephone calls.
• If you submitted your application through the CAPPS Career Center, you may also check the status of your application by accessing your profile and selecting My Job page and selecting My Submissions.

An Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: The Texas Juvenile Justice Department does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability in employment or the provision of services.