Gardener - Engineering & Facilities - Full-time (Flamingo LV)

Job Description: 

Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. 

 

Essential Job Functions: 

• Gather and remove litter. 

• Dispose of trash or waste materials. 

• Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes. 

• Operate grounds maintenance equipment. 

• Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws. 

• Operate grounds maintenance equipment. 

• Drive trucks or other vehicles to or at work sites. 

• Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. 

• Irrigate lawns, trees, or plants. 

• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws. 

• Trim trees or other vegetation. 

• Operate grounds maintenance equipment. 

• Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, or trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders. 

• Prepare chemicals for work application. 

• Treat greenery or surfaces with protective substances. 

• Operate grounds maintenance equipment. 

• Use irrigation methods to adjust the amount of water consumption and to prevent waste. 

• Irrigate lawns, trees, or plants. 

• Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features. 

• Maintain irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring. 

• Maintain equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning. 

• Plan or cultivate lawns or gardens. 

• Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens. 

• Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage. 

• Evaluate reports or designs to determine work needs. 

• Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls. 

• Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens. 

• Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds. 

• Clean facilities or sites. 

• Trim trees or other vegetation. 

• Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. 

• Install equipment to protect or support trees. 

• Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools. 

• Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens. 

• Plant greenery to improve landscape appearance. 

• Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers. 

• Trim trees or other vegetation. 

• Operate grounds maintenance equipment. 

• Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. 

• Remove debris from work sites. 

• Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools. 

• Maintain equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning. 

• Care for artificial turf fields, periodically removing the turf and replacing cushioning pads or vacuuming and disinfecting the turf after use to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. 

• Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens. 

• Decorate gardens with stones or plants. 

• Decorate indoor or outdoor spaces. 

• Install rock gardens, ponds, decks, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, or playground equipment. 

• Care for natural turf fields, making sure the underlying soil has the required composition to allow proper drainage and to support the grasses used on the fields. 

• Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens. 

• Haul or spread topsoil or spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place. 

• Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens 

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