Grounds and Horticultural Technicians and Grounds Heavy Equipment Operators) and coordinates with contractors, as well as faculty and managers to identify and eradicate noxious pests, insects, plant diseases, and weeds on District grounds, apply fertilizers, and implements the District's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) process and practices, in accordance with applicable state and federal law, and performs a variety of tasks and utilizes a variety of equipment in order to maintain the District's grounds and athletic/sports fields in support of instructional and learning activities. Safe operation and routine maintenance of heavy equipment such as dump trucks, heavy tractors, sweepers, skip loaders, backhoes, boom trucks forklifts, large chemical boom rig, chemical sprayers complex hydraulic riding mowers, and certain farm equipment and attachments for the grading, airification, veritical-cut, scraping, slicing, seeding, broadcasting and digging and power tools used in ground maintenance.