Landscaping Worker

The City of Franklin is a progressive community, as well as a great place to live and work. There are tremendous opportunities to establish a career with the City's municipal government. Job responsibilities at the City of Franklin are many and varied, as well as challenging and rewarding. Working for the City of Franklin instills a sense of civic pride and gratification for serving the needs of the public.

Maintains all natural and ornamental landscape areas on park property. Work involvesgrowing and maintaining lawns of parks and cemeteries, flowers, shrubs, trails, and trees as well as executing the beautification plan for the parks and city managed cemeteries. All while using good horticultural and landscaping practices.

Must be able to work holidays, nights and weekends. (i.e. meetings, special events and tournaments)

• Assists in creating bedding and landscape plans; determines planting scheme, selects and purchases plants, bulbs, purchases seeds; sows, transplants, waters, and fertilizes plants, computes, orders, and makes substitutions for all required quantities of plants, seeds, and other materials and equipment required to perform the work.
• Oversees growing and maintenance of a wide variety of plants and performs a wide range of gardening work, such as using proper pruning techniques on trees and shrubs, when needed, applying fertilizers and pesticides, installing new ornamental and seasonal color beds, correcting drainage and other erosion issues, and applying mulches as needed.
• Maintains, repairs and installs irrigation systems in all landscaping or ROW areas. Assist in controlling the entire irrigation system that includes, but is not limited to, proper water management of all landscaped areas. Performs periodic maintenance checks, repairs leaks in lines or valves, and winterization.

• Performs general inspection of all equipment including fluids, belts, and other moving parts before using.
• Performs general maintenance of equipment including cleaning, greasing, and blade sharpening, and performing minor repairs.
• Cleans and maintains all equipment and work areas.
• Loads and unloads all equipment for transportation to worksites.
• Maintains park trees; assists with the pruning and/or removal of park trees. Uses an aerial lift to perform necessary maintenance. Will at times be under the supervision of the Urban Forestry Supervisor.
• May assist with routine Urban Forestry maintenance to all trails including the mountain bike trail system along with installation and/or repairs of any amenities within the parks system.
• Responsibilities include blowing surfaces, edging and string trimming within easements of all trails.

• Internal - Forklift, Skid Steer, Chainsaw, Chipper, Stump Grinder
• Professional training as it relates to the position.

Performs other job duties as assigned, including:

• Performs minor repairs to cemetery walls, fences, and markers.
• Assists with preparing parks for special events.
• Maintains Park Water features such as ponds and ornamental fountains.
• Performs related duties and responsibilities to assist other employees in the department as required.

Primary challenges of this position include understanding horticultural practices and being able to work with and maintain a wide variety of plants and landscapes.

• Operates and maintains backpack blowers, chainsaws, bed edger’s, string trimmers, skid steers, mini-excavator, aerators, tractors, tree chippers, tillers, ATVs and augers.
• Computer and computer software including virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams and other office equipment.
• Job Content Knowledge:Has general…