Groundsman Jobs

General Summary:

Maintain golf course and landscaping around the course, clubhouse and other club facilities, including parking lots.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Rakes bunkers.
• Prepares and lays sod.
• Aerifies and spikes greens.
• Trims trees; removes cuttings.
• Rakes and blows leaves.
• Supervisor Responsibilities
  • None
• Cleans equipment used in practice area.
• Operates walk-behind equipment.
• None
• Empties garbage cans.
• Participates in departmental and club training meetings.
• Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds.
• Repairs and maintains driving range tees.
• Loads and unloads materials.
• Primary Duties
  • Trims trees; removes cuttings.
  • Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds.
  • Rakes and blows leaves.
  • Prepares and lays sod.
  • Rakes bunkers.
  • Loads and unloads materials.
  • Repairs and maintains driving range tees.
  • Cleans equipment used in practice area.
  • Operates walk-behind equipment.
  • Aerifies and spikes greens.
  • Helps with drainage projects.
  • Empties garbage cans.
  • Participates in departmental and club training meetings.
• Helps with drainage projects.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Perform with frequent interruptions and/or distractions
• Demonstration of cooperation, interest, and enthusiasm in support of the club’s mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to varied and added responsibilities.
• Demonstration of effective inter-disciplinary cooperation and assists with improvement in interdepartmental communications
• Assures development, implementation, and review of policies and procedures which guide and support provisions of designated services.

Certification/Education and Experience:

• Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greens keeping preferred but not required.
• Knowledge of golf course operations and irrigation systems preferred but not required.

Working Condition:

• Prolonged periods of being outdoors.
• There is a potential for stressful situations and for long hours.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequent lifting, bending, climbing, stooping and pulling.
• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
• Able to meet and perform the physical requirements and to work effectively in an environment which is typical of this position.
• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.