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Groundskeeper

Job in Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia, 23187, USA
Listing for: Colonial-Williamsburg-Foundation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
  • Outdoor/Nature/Animal Care
    Landscaping
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 22000 - 32000 USD Yearly USD 22000.00 32000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Description Who We Are

Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is "that the future may learn from the past" through preserving and restoring 18 th
-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.

Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 89 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life.

The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Bob and Marion Wilson Teacher Institute , and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library.

Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes.

Each year over five million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.

About the Position:

This position is a key member of a crew within the Landscape Department responsible for maintaining historic gardens and landscapes to the highest horticultural standards. Performs basic landscaping maintenance tasks including, but not limited to mowing and other turf maintenance, leaf removal, hardscape maintenance and picking up trash and yard debris, and other seasonal landscape tasks. This position is classified as essential, and the incumbent must participate in all emergencies, ice and snow removal and special events.

Responsibilities
  • Perform mowing, watering, weeding in gardens and landscape beds. Assist with the installation and maintenance of a variety of hardscapes materials (shell, gravel, bank-run, etc.) and a variety of plants (trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, perennials, and seasonal flowers).
  • Keep assigned areas free of trash including paper, cigarettes, bottles and cans and assisting with the overall health and appearance of the gardens and landscape in specified areas keeping them pristine and safe.
  • Attend daily briefing meetings to receive work assignments. Perform all work in a timely and efficient manner to ensure projects and garden-related activities are completed on time and in accordance with expectations. Work under direction of Lead Horticulturist and Horticulturist.
  • Interact positively and professionally with fellow staff members and Colonial Williamsburg guests and visitors; answer questions and provide directions to guests and team members as required.
  • Operate power and handheld landscape equipment such as, but not limited to, push mowers, various riding mowers, string trimmers, edgers, leaf blowers, tillers, power shears, and conventional hand tools.
  • Clean storm drains, swales and catch basins as directed by Lead Horticulturist and Horticulturist.
  • Follow prescribe safety standards, policies and procedures. Observe OSHA guidelines to assure specified areas are safe…
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