Gardener Jobs

POSITION OVERVIEW AND PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS):

Typical Pay Range – From 20.80 hourly

This is an ON - CALL Position

Position Overview:

The Gardener Performs regular and directed grounds and landscape maintenance by mowing lawns, trimming and edging around trees, shrubs, ground cover, flowers, sidewalks and buildings, weeding, thinning and cleaning flower beds and other grounds by hand while utilizing proper tools and equipment. Work will include both routine work and special assignments to support a government contract.

Primary/Major Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Other duties as assigned by immediate Supervisor
• Build and maintain irrigation systems to include valves, vacuum breakers, backflow preventers, pressure regulators, irrigation connections, sprinkler heads, bubblers, risers, heads, underground piping, controls, irrigation time clocks and other water emitting devices
• Comfortable working in all weather and seasons.
• Removes unsightly trash and debris from the grounds by regularly inspecting the grounds.
• May be required to drive to outlying areas
• Adheres to all safety requirements, ensuring a safe working environment for all.
• Ensuring that all tools, garden equipment and machinery are correctly maintained and serviced and that they are kept in good and safe working order.
• Will maintain improved and semi-improved grounds
• Removing snow and ice from walkways by using salt spreaders, shovels, shovels, tractors, and snow blowers.
• The use of a wide range of hand tools, horticultural machinery and powered hand tools such as lawn mowers string trimmers and hedge cutters.
• The applicant must be able to carry out a varied range of gardening duties, requiring a minimum amount of supervision and use of own initiative.

Required Education and Experience:

• Ability to comply with all safety requirements and wear personal protective equipment at all times
• Previous experience in a similar role. A sound knowledge of horticulture machinery.
• Must be familiar with tractors and its components.
• Ability work independently as well as part of a team
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Ability to comply with all instruction and direction
• Must have the ability to perform physical labor to include lifting and carrying a maximum of 50 lbs
• Must be proficient in the use of hand tools, including shovels, rakes, lawn rollers, pruning saws and sheers, hand mowers, hula hoes, etc.
• Must have a valid state’s driver’s license
• Pursuant to a government contract, this position requires US citizenship status