Groundskeeper

Description

Summary

Is responsible for the cultivation and care of the landscaping and grounds surrounding our facility. Plants flowers, mows, pulls weeds, repairs structures, and maintains outside of building.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: 

• Assists in ensuring that the facility grounds and property meet all set standards.

• Assists in ensuring that all irrigation equipment and systems function properly, are properly operated, and are properly maintained.

• Assists in physical installation and maintenance of landscaped areas.

• In addition to initially transporting and planting new vegetation, may be responsible for the transplanting, mulching, fertilizing, and watering of flowering plants, trees, and shrubs, and mowing, weeding trimming, edging, detaching, and watering of lawns.

• Ensures that all parking areas, walkways, sidewalks are free from dirt, and debris.

• Ensures that all litter is removed from trash receptacles, parking areas, lawns, flowerbeds, and any areas exterior to the casino including adjacent fields and roadways.

• Ensures the removal of soil, rubbish, and leaves from the grounds and parking areas.

• Operates equipment such as trimmers, hedgers, mowers, edger, and sweepers.

• Mows, trims and edges lawns; weeds and waters lawns and flow beds; prunes trees and shrubs; plants and transplants trees, shrubs, ground cover and flowers; operates hand and chain saws to cut trees and wood.

• Operates various equipment and motor vehicles in performance of job duties.

• May assist facilities maintenance staff with maintenance functions.

• Ensure that all equipment functions properly, are properly operated, and are properly maintained.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirement

• Minimum 18 years of age.

• Valid California Driver’s License.

• Slip Resistant Shoes.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Education and/or Experience

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred.  Experience in landscape maintenance, groundskeeping, and the operation of groundskeeping equipment preferred.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense and understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Gaming license issued by the Paskenta Gaming Commission. Valid California Driver’s License.

Physical Demands

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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to walk.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 60 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move, pull, push, more than 100 pounds with assistance.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet, warm, hot, and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, and extreme cold and hot.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties, responsibilities, requirements, and expectations that pertain to this job are subject to change as needed

Qualifications

Salary : $17