Landscaping Maintenance

Maintains the appearance and condition of company grounds and landscape using hand or power tools and equipment as assigned.

Duties will include any combination of the following responsibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Cares for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding and removing thatch, and trimming and edging around flower

beds, walks, and walls and other areas as assigned.

2. Duties may also include cleaning stable area bathrooms, including sanitizing areas and changing soaps and supplies.

3. Mixes and sprays or spreads fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, and trees, using hand or automatic

sprayers or spreaders as assigned.

4. Mows and edges lawns, using power mowers and edgers.

5. Plants seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, and shrubs, and applies mulch for protection, using

gardening tools as assigned.

6. Hauls and/or spreads topsoil, and spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place.

7. Prunes and trims trees, shrubs, and hedges, using shears, pruners, or similar equipment.

8. Rakes, mulches, and composts leaves.

9. Trims and picks flowers, and cleans flower beds.

10. Duties may also include assisting in the general clean up of the stable area.

11. Operates all equipment necessary to complete job function safely and efficiently.

12. Waters lawns, trees and plants using portable sprinkler systems, hoses or watering cans.

13. Maintains tools and equipment using hand and power tools.

14. Operates powered equipment such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, electric clippers, sod cutters, and pruning saws.

15. Uses hand tools such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge and weed trimmers, and axes.

16. Adheres to daily work assignments, including the use of tools and equipment, as instructed by the supervisor or lead. The

work schedule and breaks will be determined...