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SalaryDescription:
The Groundskeeper performs landscaping tasks using power equipment and hand tools to maintain the facility’s grounds.
Requirements:Duties and Responsibilities:
- Picks up and removes trash prior to mowing a designated area.
- Operates a variety of maintenance equipment such as shovels, rakes, or saws to complete assignments.
- Operates power equipment and other vehicles such as tractors, mowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, or other similar machines.
- Empties trash and recycling containers.
- Trims bushes, shrubs, and hedges.
- Prepares soil and plants flowers, bushes, hedges, or shrubs.
- Plants trees and prunes them when necessary.
- Cuts and removes trees as needed.
- Completes snow removal tasks such as shoveling sidewalks, steps, and doorways as needed during winter months.
- Operates snow blower or snowplow to clear roads, driveways, and parking lots.
- Performs routine maintenance on power equipment.
- Educates and consults with clients regarding plant selection, care, and costs of additional services and maintenance.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Good verbal communication skills.
- Basic understanding of grounds keeping and landscaping practices and procedures.
- Ability to work efficiently and thoroughly.
- Ability to follow directions.
- Thorough understanding of how to care for various types of lawns, greenery, and plants.
- Ability to operate various types of power equipment including lawn mowers, trimmers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, and other landscaping equipment.
- Ability to use hand tools required for landscaping.
- Ability to follow instructions and complete assignments.
- Ability to follow instructions and complete assignments.
- Extensive knowledge of landscaping techniques and processes.
- Excellent time management skills.
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Previous experience preferred.
- On-the-job training offered.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods walking, standing, bending, stretching, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, or kneeling.
- Must be physically able to operate power equipment.
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at a time.
- Must be able to work in a variety of weather conditions.
