Grounds Maintenance Laborer

Grounds Maintenance Laborer

PRIDE Industries is a fast-paced company with a mission: To Create Jobs for People with Disabilities while providing high quality, value-added solutions to our nationwide customers. We are currently recruiting to fill the following position:

Under close supervision, Grounds Maintenance Laborer/Gardener maintains landscaped areas, roads, and parking lots of assigned facilities. Employees in this job perform work to assure grounds are maintained in safe and pristine condition. This job class requires knowledge of landscaping practices, procedures, supplies and equipment and the ability to perform landscaping job functions in a safe and timely manner.

Typical duties include mowing lawns with walking-types or riding mowers, aerating and removing thatch, using a weed eater and pulling weeds and maintaining flower beds, using a blower and manually picking up trash, leaves, limbs, and providing a clean and neat appearance of the grounds, trimming hedges and shrubs, edges around walks, flower beds, buildings and walls using hedge trimmers, clippers, and edging tools to maintain overall appearance of landscape vegetation and grounds, pruning shrubs and trees using shears and saws, monitoring equipment used and reporting any malfunction or other issues, travel between facilities and work locations may be required, monitoring and maintaining irrigation systems to ensure that vegetation is properly irrigated, applying fertilizer, weed killer, and necessary pesticides, driving company pick-up or small dump truck, completing basic paperwork and calculating materials and time, performing other duties and special projects as assigned, may include snow removal, surface salting, and repair of roads, walks, buildings, and mechanical equipment, cleaning comfort stations, offices workshop areas, and parking lots by sweeping, washing, mopping and polishing.

Minimum qualifications include one year of work experience in grounds maintenance, or knowledge of grounds maintenance standards, techniques and materials; proper use of PPE; ability to identify and work safely with appropriate manual and power tools, mechanical and electrical equipment, to the task assigned; ability to manage and accurately track material resources and time, and adapt to changing work priorities; ability to be flexible due to change of schedule, work duration and tasks; communicate and work collaboratively and professionally on a team with various skill levels, and of various ethnic, religious, cultural and other backgrounds, and demonstrate good customer service skills.

Education requirements include a high school diploma or GED.

The following licenses or certificates may be required depending on local, state and/or contract requirements: valid driver's license.

Physical requirements include standing and walking, maneuvering around equipment, bending, kneeling, squatting, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling and shoveling, lifting of equipment up to 50 pounds, pushing or pulling equipment weighing up to 75 pounds, carrying a 20-pound backpack blower.

Work environment includes work performed at a customer's location on job sites in a construction environment with various tools, and mechanical, electrical and construction equipment. Transporting to work locations within the site. At times, may be required to work in confined spaces. Employees may be exposed to hazardous equipment, toxic substances, noise from equipment, and depending on external weather conditions, wind, rain, cold, and heat. Travel between facilities and work locations may be required.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job. Employees are expected to follow their supervisor's instructions and to perform the tasks requested by their supervisors.

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