- Pruning/trimming, watering, fertilizing, and applying pesticides to all plants as necessary.
- Perform regular landscape maintenance by mowing lawns, trimming, and edging around trees, shrubs, sidewalks, and buildings and blowing of sidewalks and hardscapes.
- Weeding, thinning, and cleaning landscape beds by hand or with appropriate tools and equipment.
- Inspect plants for insects, disease, physical and mechanical damage and identifying replacements needed in a timely manner.
- Maintaining and refreshing, when necessary, staging, and top dressing of containerized plants and landscaped beds.
- Safely operates company vehicles, mowers, and power tools and grounds keeping equipment.
- Ensure maintenance equipment is operating safely and returned clean to shop at end of each work day.
- Perform routing and preventative maintenance and cleaning of all tools.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB
This is strenuous work requiring good vision, hearing, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, lifting, and the ability to work a 10-hour day in varying exterior, greenhouse and/or office conditions.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBLIITES
- Daily clock-in at the start and completion of the workday and when moving between projects.
- Attendance at regular training sessions.
- Proper documentation of work orders, service records and route cards.
- Timely requests for replacement plants and full knowledge of replacement budgets.
- Timely communication to supervisor regarding account problems or concerns.
- Friendly, professional communication with client contact.
- Proper maintenance and safe use of company tools, equipment, and vehicles.