Gardener 2 - Park Maintenance
WICHITA COMPANY LIMITED
Wichita, KS
Full Time
Entry Level
Posted 3 weeks ago
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Perform gardening and grounds maintenance tasks independently, including planting, irrigating, pruning, mowing, and pest control. Supervise other employees and ensure cleanliness of park areas.
Responsibilities
- Maintain flowers, shrubs, and trees, including cultivating, transplanting, irrigating, pruning, spraying, and fertilizing
- Maintain turf grass areas, including irrigating, planting, mowing, edging, trimming, controlling diseases and pests, and fertilizing
- Maintain cleanliness of walks and other hard-surfaced areas by sweeping and hosing with water
- Remove snow from walks and other areas
- Maintain litter-free areas
- Ball and burlaps trees
- Supervise other employees
- Operate and repair irrigation systems
- Operate power mowers
- Assist with prescribed burns
Requirements
- Knowledge of standard tools, equipment, materials, methods, and practices used in gardening and grounds maintenance work
- Knowledge of hazards and safety precautions of the work
- Working knowledge of horticulture, floriculture, irrigation systems, symptoms of plant disease, parasites, and insect pests, and their control methods
- Skill in the use of standard hand and power equipment employed in propagation and cultivation of garden and grass areas
- Ability to push/pull and operate a standard lawn mower over rough terrain
- Ability to lift and carry up to 150 pounds with assistance
- Ability to tolerate outdoors, open grounds, windy conditions, and pesticide and herbicide handling
Skills
Hand tools
*
Irrigation systems
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Power mowers
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* Required skills
Certifications
State of Kansas Commercial Pesticide Applicator certification (General Knowledge Category 9A--Noxious Weeds or General Knowledge 3-A, 3-B ornamental and turf pest control)
(Required)