Position Summary
A Maintenance Gardener is responsible for performing a variety of landscape tasks including mowing, trimming, ground maintenance, and keeping our client's landscape looking beautiful!
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Follows directions from the Crew Leader; performs landscape maintenance functions (e.g., pulling weeds, raking leaves, sweeping sidewalks, and cleaning debris)
- Clears ditches, digs holes, and performs handwork as necessary using a pick, shovel, or other hand tools
- Waters vegetation using a hose; cleans canals, drains, and tree wells;
- Operates light landscape equipment (e.g., 21" mower, leaf blower, weed eater, stick edger, and hedge trimmer) and other landscape equipment (e.g., 36", 48" and riding lawn mowers)
- Applies chemicals (e.g., fertilizer, weed abatement) to landscape by application equipment such as backpack sprayers or spreaders
- Plants vegetation as instructed
- Maintains tools and equipment to ensure safety
- Attends safety meetings and adheres to PPE usage
- Performs general clean up at the work site
- Ensures work is performed to the company's and customer's expectations
- Finishes the work efficiently
- Recognizes areas for improvement in the landscape and communicates this to the Crew Leader
- Provides excellent service (e.g., accurate, complete, and timely) to clients, work-site partners, and company staff in a courteous and efficient manner
- Other duties as assigned by management
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Competencies
- Ability to think ahead and completes tasks efficiently within budget and timelines
- Demonstrates the ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Ability to be trained in and then identify weeds, insects, and plants correctly
- Communicates well with others using basic English and/or Spanish
- Safety Minded: Performs all job functions safely; complies with all safety policies, procedures, and standards (e.g., PPE, proper lifting, wears seat belt when in a vehicle); reports all safety-related incidents to supervisor immediately; attends all safety meetings
- Demonstrates Punctuality/Attendance: Shows up to work each day on time; completes all tasks within time expectations; adheres to company dress code policy, follows inclement weather policy and attendance policy and procedures
Education/Experience/Licenses
- Must be 18+ years of Age - required
- Valid Driver's License and Acceptable Motor Vehicle Record - preferred
- HS Diploma or Equivalent - preferred
- Any previous landscape maintenance experience – preferred
- Any manual labor experience, and working outdoors - preferred
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
Work Environment
Work is performed outdoors for entire shifts in all types of weather including extreme heat, direct sun, rain, wind, dust. The worker will be exposed to varying noise levels and safely handle/work around pesticides, herbicides, grease, oils, fumes, and electrical currents.
Physical Requirements
The physical characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions required by this job classification. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable an individual with qualified disabilities to perform the functions of this job classification, on a case-by-case basis.
Frequently stand, walk, or crouch on narrow and/or slippery surfaces; stoop, kneel, bend to pick up or move objects; walk for long distances and on sloped ground and uneven surfaces; move, lift, and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds; normal manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination; corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
Travel Required
None
EEO statement
Caretaker Landscape and Tree Management provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Caretaker Landscape and Tree Management participates in E-Verify and is a drug free workplace.
Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Experience:
- Gardening: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- driver’s license and maintain an acceptable driving record (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- Gilbert, AZ: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person