Enhancement Landscape Laborer

About This Role

Execute small scale landscaping operations and maintain grounds and landscape of commercial properties, including planting, mulching, pruning, and operating various landscaping equipment.

Responsibilities

• Perform plant removal, replanting of lawn, converting lawn areas to planters, or planters to lawn, replace broken sidewalk, lay mow strips, mulch, prune and plant trees
• Serve as backup to interior, landscaping maintenance, gardening, irrigation technology and grounds person job or job function
• Remove or plant grass, utilize garden tools including rakes, shovels, picks, etc.
• Dig trenches and set up cement forms for sidewalk replacement, mow strips, and planters
• Utilize pruning and trimming equipment to maintain trees and shrubs
• Operate lawn maintenance equipment including a 36" mower, blower, gas powered trimmer, and other power equipment
• Water plants, lawns, and gardens
• Apply fertilizer in accordance with scheduled use and application standards
• Perform plant, weed, trim, and blow activities
• Remove materials from overhead racks on truck and transport materials from site to site

Requirements

• Current driver’s license
• Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration
• Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finishing cement surfaces, preparing forms for cement pours, and weeding

Qualifications

• 6 months commercial landscape experience preferred but not required

Nice to Have

• Ability to work with cement in preparing for the pour and following finishing procedures
• Ability to operate a truck with trailer/gate and ramp for loading, unloading and transport of equipment
• Ability to stand for 5 minutes, walk for 2 hours and sit for 30 minutes consecutively
• Ability to lift and carry tools, equipment, and materials weighing up to 20 pounds for 50 feet maximum
• Ability to handle items such as plants, bushes, hoses, shovels, rakes, and burlap bags
• Ability to lift 30-50 lbs. (or 120 lbs. trees with 4 individuals) a distance of 20 feet for planting
• Ability to push or pull grass into rolls requiring force up to 20 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull, twist, and turn trees with a force of up to 35 lbs. when planting trees
• Must be able to bend at the waist when picking up leaves, branches, trimming, mowing, digging trenches, setting forms, and planting

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits