Grounds Crew Member

Job Title: Grounds Crew Member

Job Summary: Grounds Crew Members are responsible for maintaining the outdoor areas of the property, ensuring it is clean, attractive, and well-kept. This work includes a variety of landscaping and maintenance tasks.

Job Responsibilities:

• Pick up paper and debris from the park grounds.
• Load and unload delivery trucks.
• Conduct general maintenance duties such as cleaning walkways, fixing fountains, and other duties.
• Trim overgrown limbs, hedges, and leaves.
• Uphold the landscaping design and ensure plant growth.
• Plant new decorative bushes, flowers, plants, and shrubs.
• Supervised maintenance repairs to equipment, landscape structures, outdoor furniture, and walkways.
• Maintaining site landscaping.
• Maintaining lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, turf, and irrigation.
• Fertilizing lawn, trees, flowers, and shrubs, and spreading mulch.
• Trimming trees, hedges, shrubs, and preventing and eliminating weeds.
• Operating and maintaining hand tools, such as loppers, saws, and shovels efficiently.
• Operating and maintaining trucks and power tools.
• Utilizing insecticides, fertilizers, and chemical sprays to treat diseases.
• Keeping grounds free from trash, litter and debris, and emptying trash receptacles.
• Picking up, bagging, and removal of garbage and debris from park.
• Perform any other related duties as assigned by the Grounds Manager or other appropriate administrator.

Eductaion/

Experience:

• High school diploma or GED is preferred.
• Grounds keeping experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Must have the ability to stand for extended periods of time.
• Exhibit manual dexterity to use equipment.
• See and read printed material with or without vision aids.
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly.
• Physical agility to lift and carry up to 50lbs.
• Must be able to bend, to stop, to walk and to reach overhead.
• Must be able to walk up to 10 miles per day; ability to properly use all methods of personal protective equipment (including face masks and/or respirators).
• Must be able to operate a motor vehicle.