Job Summary

The Maintenance Laborer will landscape or maintain the grounds of property using power tools or equipment. Maintenance Laborers typically perform an assortment of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing plants, installing pinestraw/mulch, digging, and raking.

Core Values

1. Culture of Safety – Safety is always job #1
2. A Growing Tradition Plants, Personally, Financially and Professionally
3. Employee Owned – Personal Pride in Success with an Owners Mentality
4. Exceptional Customer Experience – Delighting our Clients with our Products and Services
5. Good Neighbors – Community Pride – Sharing our Success
6. Respectability – Treating Others as we want to be treated

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Duties/Responsibilities

• Projects and job tasks are to include but are not limited to, working in inclement weather, home trash pickup, flower planting, laying of sod, fertilizing, chemical applications, planting trees and shrubs, landscape construction, irrigation maintenance, storm cleanup, shop cleanup, equipment maintenance, documentation, street cleaning, pond maintenance, holiday decorating, working from heights
• Check high-priority areas daily for debris, blowing needs, weeds, or anything that is unsightly or out of place
• Fully fuel up all equipment at the end of each workday
• Before operating equipment, check for safety, fuel, oil level, tire air pressure, and any other fine-tuning before use
• Daily activities may consist of mowing with various types of mowers including zero turn and push mowers
• Use of string trimmers, edgers, blowers, and chainsaws, among a large variety of maintenance tools
• Properly applicate fertilizers, pesticides, and chemicals
• Complete work in a timely, fine-tuned manner
• Jobsites are to be left in a normal, safe, and clean status
• High-quality service is always expected
• Assist and contribute regularly on projects, at any moment, in any area, as deemed necessary by the department manager or assistant manager
• Adhere to Company’s safety policy and ensure that the public and co-workers will be safe while performing job duties
• Performs other duties as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities

• Mows and trims lawns, using a hand mower or power mower
• Trims shrubs and improves gardens
• Clean grounds, using rakes and hoses
• May use landscaping tools or operate heavy equipment as needed
• Adhere to Company’s safety policy and ensure that the public and co-workers will be safe while performing job duties

Education and Experience

• High school graduate or equivalent desired
• Previous outside construction, landscape, or similar field experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills a must
• Candidate must have experience in operating a locator, wiring and re-wiring irrigation clocks and programming decoders

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
• Have a full range of mobility in the upper and lower body
• Be able to reach overhead
• Be able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, and squatting for extended periods of time
• Be able to lift, pull and push materials and equipment to complete assigned job tasks
• Be able to lift 50 pounds of weight frequently throughout assigned workday