Title: Garden & Landscape Technician
Agency: CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Location: Norfolk, VA
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Hiring Range: Full Time or Part Time
Full Time
Additional Detail:
Job Description:
To properly maintain the landscape of the University to present a neat, clean, and well-maintained appearance. This will include the performance of grounds maintenance, operate grounds maintenance equipment such as truck with or without manual transmission, riding, and push mowers, pesticide application equipment, tractors, and small powered equipment. This will also include horticulture practices such as mowing, weed control, turfgrass maintenance, planting, litter removal, and other aspects associated with the upkeep of the landscape of the campus.
Position is designated as essential personnel" for emergency closing.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Basic knowledge of proper way to maintain and/or plant trees, shrubs, and flowers. • Basic knowledge of the proper way to trim, spray, mow, remove trash and debris, weed, fertilize, sweep, rake, cultivate, dig, water, shovel, or plow snow, remove ice, spread salt, and/or sand, and other related functions. • Basic knowledge of how to prune different species of shrubs and trees. • Basic knowledge of and experience in the operation of grounds equipment. • Some knowledge of pesticides. • Basic mechanical knowledge to recognize malfunctions of equipment. • Demonstrated ability to recognize irrigation malfunction. • Demonstrated ability to work in extreme heat or cold to lift, move, carry 50 pounds many times per week. • Demonstrate the ability to read and write. • Demonstrate ability to work independently or to work with others.
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