General Grounds Operations
Phil Richey
prichey@purdue.edu | Grounds Director
- Oversees all department functions and operations.
Streets, Recycling & Refuse
Wyatt Carmony
hwcarmony@purdue.edu | Grounds Manager
- Street maintenance & gravel pit
- Refuse & recycling
- Street signs, parking garage upkeep
- Topsoil production
- Heavy equipment support
- Airport snow removal support
- Campus snow/ice management
Campus Grounds Maintenance
Jacob Henry
jlhenry@purdue.edu | Grounds Maintenance Manager
- Grounds maintenance for academic and University Residences
- Landscape maintenance (weeding, pruning, mulching, mowing, spraying)
- Turf maintenance
- Service of exterior trash receptacles
- Campus snow/ice management
Fleet & Transportation
Aaron Veach
ajveach@purdue.edu | Transportation and Fleet Maintenance Manager
- University vehicles maintenance
- Fuel station & car wash
Landscape Construction & Care
Jason Kilgour
jskilgour@purdue.edu | Landscape Maintenance Manager
- Irrigation (new and repair)
- New landscape installations and renovations
- Production and maintenance of campus annuals
- Pest control
- Campus tree care
- Athletic venues’ landscape maintenance
- Interior plant care
- Slip/trip/fall response
- Campus snow/ice management
Landscape Design & Planning
Brooke Sammons
bncolella@purdue.edu | Certified Landscape Architect
- Campus landscape design and reviews
- Capital project design review
- Campus art, student projects, memorials and monuments