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Job Title: Landscape Crew Member

Position Summary

Maintains grounds of industrial, commercial, or public property and performs other installation and enhancement activities.

Position Duties

• Works around and operates hand tools and mechanical machinery used for landscape maintenance.
• Cuts lawns.
• Trims and edges around walks, flower beds, and walls.
• Prunes shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth or remove damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.
• Sprays lawn, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer, herbicides, and insecticides.
• Rakes and bags leaves.
• Cleans grounds and removes litter.
• Prepares and grades terrain.
• Seeds and sods lawns.
• Installs and/or moves and transplants trees, shrubs, and other plant material on current maintenance and enhancement jobs and properties.
• Digs trenches for irrigation systems or piping and supports irrigation technician or manager in the installation of the irrigation systems.
• Removes tree brush after tree trimmer’s prune, cut and shape trees.
• Plants grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs.
• Waters lawn and shrubs.
• Cleans out drainage ditches and culverts.
• Sharpens tools such as weed cutters, edging tools, and shears.
• Makes minor repairs on equipment such as lawn mower, spreader, and snow removal equipment.
• Depending on geographic seasonality, may be required to shovel snow from walks and driveways and spread salt on public passage ways to prevent ice buildup.
• Trims and removes trees from client properties.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements: Stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. Flexibility and adaptability. Lift, move up to 75lb.

Other Requirements: Strong customer focus

Ability to understand and carry out oral instructions.

Current Driver’s License is preferred. Depending on geographic location, pesticide license may be required or desired.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; extreme cold and extreme heat; wet and/or humid conditions; fumes or airborne particles and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 - $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• On call
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Richmond, VA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person