Groundskeeper:

The Groundskeeper performs landscaping tasks using power equipment and hand tools to maintain the facilities grounds.

Duties/ Responsibilities:

• Mows lawns, trims weeds, and rakes leaves as assigned.

• Picks up and removes trash prior to mowing a designated area.

• Empties trash and recycling containers.

• Trims bushes, shrubs, and hedges.

• Prepares soil and plants flowers, bushes, hedges, or shrubs.

• Plants trees and prunes them when necessary.

• Cuts and removes trees as needed.

• Applies fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides as directed.

• Completes snow removal tasks such as shoveling sidewalks, steps, and doorways as needed during winter months.

• Operates snowblower or snowplow to clear roads, driveways, and parking lots.

• Performs routine maintenance on power equipment.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to operate various types of power equipment including lawnmowers, trimmers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, and other landscaping equipment.

• Ability to use hand tools required for landscaping.

• Ability to follow instructions and complete assignments.

• Extensive knowledge of landscaping techniques and processes.

• Excellent time management skills.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

• Previous experience preferred.

• On-the-job training offered.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods walking, standing, bending, stretching, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, or kneeling.

• Must be physically able to operate power equipment.

• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at a time.

• Must be able to work in a variety of weather conditions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform 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 required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education – no minimum education requirements.

Experience – no experience required.

Certification/License – Valid Driver license

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

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