What are the responsibilities and job description for the BEAUTIFICATION COORDINATOR II position at City of Gulfport?
Department: 411-Leisure Services
EEO Class: Service Workers
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Rate of pay: $21.61/hr
Position Overview
Essential Job Functions
Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, May include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
• Assist Landscape Manager in designing healthy and well-maintained gardens, and grounds to create a positive first impression.
• Responsible for providing supervision to the beautification crew.
• Responsible for organizing and planning daily maintenance operations.
• Assist with installation and maintenance of landscaped areas such as grade property; install lighting or irrigation systems, and build walkways, terraces and fountains.
• Assist in the supervision of transporting and planting new vegetation.
• Oversee the transplant of mulch, providing fertilization, and water to flowering plants, trees, and shrubs.
• Responsible for following- up on work orders, citizen complaints/requests and determining a solution to correct any problems that may arise.
• Assist and conducting and preparing quarterly and annual employee performance evaluation.
• Responsible for city equipment and inventory of equipment.
• Schedule work for crew according to weather conditions, availability of equipment, and seasonal limitations.
• Monitor and inspect work of beautification crew to determine quality of work.
• Review and inspect completed work order for quality of work performed.
• Responsible for overseeing mixing of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides and apply them through sprays, dusts, vapors into the soil, or onto trees, shrubs, turf or botanical crops.
• Prepares fields, garden beds or lawn areas by cultivating soil and adding fertilizers and compost.
• Evaluate effectiveness of applied chemicals. Follow all federal laws and train employees on proper spraying techniques and applications.
• Ensure that employees are not wasteful or careless with chemical applications.
• Act as the coordinator between the Landscape Manager for projects as assigned.
• Maintain detailed reports regarding all work scheduled and completed.
• Prepares fields, garden beds or lawn areas by cultivating soil and adding fertilizers and compost.
• Conduct meetings with citizens, business owners, or other community originations to convey project design and solicit information for design development.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Must posses required knowledge, skills, abilities and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
• Ability to apply basic professional knowledge to design of simple or complex landscaping construction management.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to review project work performed by beautification crew.
• Ability to assist other personnel in reviewing quantities, costs, accuracy of specifications s, completeness, constructability, and coordinate with other professions.
• Ability to effectively present information one-on-one or in a small group setting to other city employees.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all City employees, public officials, and citizens.
• Ability to technically supervise crew(s) performing contracted work assigned, along with providing special services-testing, inspections, beautification staff, as well as temporary personnel.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree preferred, with six to eight years related experience and/or training in horticulture or landscape architecture. Five to seven years supervisory experience.
Required Licenses or Certificates
Must possess a valid Mississippi driver’s license.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
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.
Physical requirements include occasional lifting/carrying of 50 pounds; visual acuity, speech and hearing; hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer keyboard and basic office equipment. Subject to sitting, standing, reaching, walking, twisting and kneeling to perform the essential functions. Working conditions are both indoors and outdoors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment may be loud.
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