Grounds Crew Member

Job Summary

Position is responsible for maintaining the grounds of the park under supervision.

Essential Duties

• Picks 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, and 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.

Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, and or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required Completion) of a standard high school or GED. Trade school course or equivalent combination of experience and training required. Experience as a grounds keeper in an amusement park preferred. Ability to read and write in English and follow written and oral instructions. Must have an excellent attendance record and demonstrated ability to exercise good judgment. Must be computer literate.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 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 50 pounds; to bend, to stoop, 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.