Groundskeeper I

Position Summary

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DEFINITION

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Under general supervision perform a wide variety of grounds maintenance and general grounds keeping including maintaining landscaped areas, sidewalks, parking lots, exterior trash receptacles, and recycling bins, and turf areas in a well-groomed, clean, and orderly condition; and performs related work, as required. The incumbent will report to the grounds keeper lead and the landscape supervisor.

CLASS CHARACTERISTICS

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Incumbents are expected to perform a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled ground maintenance work, and gardening work involving mowing lawns, trimming, edging and weeding, planting, cultivating, pruning, spraying, fertilizing and irrigating plants, trees, hedges and shrubs.

Essential Functions and Qualifications

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• Maintains lawns by mowing, thatching, edging, overseeding, aerating and renovating.
• Installs and grooms flower beds, planters, shrub areas, landscape materials, and hedges in landscaped areas, around buildings, in turf areas, around athletic fields, and in parking lots.
• Fertilizes lawns, bushes, hedges, plants, shrubs, and flowers.
• Operates power equipment, such as walk behind mowers, edger’s, blowers, hedge trimmers, chain saws, brush chippers, string trimmers, backpack and hand-held blowers, and other ground maintenance equipment as required.
• Performs general pest control duties: Apply pesticides and maintain records related to work performed.
• Uses hand tools to cultivate soil and remove weeds, undergrowth, and debris from grounds, planters and landscape areas.
• Maintains walkways, driveways, and landscaped areas litter free.
• Collects and disposes of rubbish and debris.
• Performs shrub and tree trimming from ground level.
• Empties trash and recycling containers and sorts recyclable material.,
• Cleans and maintains retention basins.
• Cleans roof drains and rain gutters, keeps storm drain in...