Landscape Gardener

Position Summary

Performs a variety of responsibilities, removing debris from grounds, mulching, bed edging; operating hand, walk-behind and ride-on mowers, blowers and other power equipment; raking leaves; sweeping and blowing walkways; and weeding by hand. Also, maintain proper working and safety standards.

• Landscape Debris Clean-up
• Mowing
• Weeding
• Bed Edging
• Mulching
• Shrub Pruning
• Seasonal Color Install

ELM’s values are a set of deeply held beliefs that govern and guide our behavior in meeting our objectives and in dealing with each other, our customers, business partners and others.

• Eager
• Respect
• Excellence
• Integrity
• Collaborative

• Follow, teach and enforce company policies per employee manual.
• Follow, teach and enforce driving, safety, labor and all other regulations per provided training.

• Ability to read, write, and perform simple arithmetic.
• Ability to follow instructions and operate hand and power equipment.
• Ability to work in a team environment and communicate with other employees, faculty, and students in campus community. Ability to operate grounds keeping machinery.

Prior landscaping work experience required.

The following conditions must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in a field environment; to walk, stand, and sit for prolonged periods of time; to frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, twist, grasp, and make repetitive hand movement in the performance of daily duties; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull moderate amounts of weight; to operate assigned equipment and vehicles;

and to verbally communicate to exchange information.

See in the normal visual range with or without correction.

Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

The majority of the work is performed in an outdoor field environment and on the road; a minimal amount of work is performed in an indoor office; travel from site to site; exposure to noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, pesticides, fertilizers, compost, insects, certain wild animals, plants and weeds (including poison oak and ivy), flowers, pollen, noxious odors, gases, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions;

work in or around water; exposure to hazardous traffic conditions; work and/or walk on various types of surfaces including slippery or uneven surfaces and rough terrain.