Landscape Technician

LANDSCAPTE TECHNICIAN I | MAINTENANCE

Location: Various Locations in Baldwin County

Salary: $17.88 hourly

Performs a variety of unskilled and semi‑skilled tasks to maintain the Sheriff's Office grounds, including the installation, renovation, and maintenance of landscaped areas such as parking lots, fences, and sidewalks. The position requires physical labor (mowing, edging, weeding, pruning) and administrative skills related to maintaining work orders, obtaining materials, and managing supplies. An employee may be responsible for security and supervision of inmate work crews and may perform other related duties in the Maintenance Division as assigned.

• Exposure to inclement weather including extreme heat or cold, rain, etc.
• Working in light conditions associated with day and night.
• Travel throughout the county to various Sheriff's Office locations.
• Working inside the Baldwin County Corrections Center and Sheriff Offices buildings as needed.
• Works with and in close proximity to inmates.
• Applies pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals.

• Mows and maintains lawn areas.
• Maintains sprinkler system and assists with repair and installation of sprinkler lines and heads.
• Performs routine maintenance of lawn and power equipment.
• Plants grass, trees, shrubs, flowers; installs sod; installs erosion control materials and/or landscape materials such as rock, mulch, dirt.
• Applies chemicals such as fertilizer, pest control, weed control throughout the grounds.
• Maintains and adjusts specialized landscaping care equipment and tools including electric motors, pumps, sprinklers, lawn mowers, washers, and other equipment as needed.
• Operates zero‑turn mowers, trucks, trimmers, weed‑eaters, hedge clippers, chain saws, leaf blowers and other equipment.
• Maintains current skills and knowledge in proper and safe techniques of building and grounds maintenance operations.
• Performs custodial and other maintenance work as assigned, including changing light bulbs, painting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, power washing, emptying trash cans, litter control, and cleaning gutters.
• Hauls, stores, and disposes various materials and items as needed (lawn debris, files, furniture).
• Opens, closes, locks, and unlocks facilities as needed.
• Performs clerical work relating to routine reports, evaluations, inventory, and work orders.
• Performs physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and moving the whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
• Uses hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating objects.

• Maintains a safe and clean work environment and equipment.
• Attends training as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

The following physical characteristics are representative of the essential functions of this classification. Reasonable accommodations may be made on a case‑by‑case basis.

• Mediate work with up to (30) pounds of force occasionally and/or up to (50) pounds of force frequently; occasionally requires heavy to very heavy work up to 100 or more pounds.
• Possess sufficient body strength to perform normal duties.
• Ability to crouch, bend the body downward and forward by bending the leg and spine.
• Dexterity with fingers for picking, pinching, or typing.
• Grasping ability to apply pressure with the whole hand.
• Ability to lift and move objects.
• Reaching ability to extend arms in any direction.
• Mental acuity to make rational decisions.
• Repetitive motion of wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking and talking ability to communicate clearly, accurately, and concisely.
• Hearing ability to hear and understand at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Visual acuity to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer screen, extensive reading, with or without correction.
• Walking ability to move about on foot to accomplish tasks or move from one work site to another.

Required:

Must have a current, valid driver's license; must be insurable. Minimum one year of landscape technician experience.