Req ID: 433637 

BASIC PURPOSE: The landscape technician performs grounds maintenance work and helps ensure all corporate outdoor areas appearances are maintained and well-kept.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs all job-related responsibilities conscientiously and efficiently, while seeking ways to make contributions in areas other than those which have been specifically assigned and be as productive as possible on a continuing basis.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Ensures safety by continuing to inspect all tools as well as understanding proper chemical handling. 
• Performs mowing, maintains grass, aeration, over-seeding, fertilizing, chemical application, planting seasonal color, prunes shrubs or flowers, and clears and maintains sidewalks or parking lots.
• Prepares planting beds with hand and power tools; integrates soil amendments; planting trees and shrubs.
• Inspect trees and landscaped areas for pest and disease.
• Prunes trees, shrubs and groundcovers.
• Performs snow and ice removal with hand tools and power equipment. This includes working on weekends, late night and early morning hours.
• May need to drive truck to transport employees, plants and trailer with materials/tools.
• Restriping parking lots as needed.
• Cleaning exterior windows.
• Communicates with fellow employees, vendors, and other relevant parties.
• Ability to communicate and execute proper safety practices with team related to job.
• Knowledge of tools, equipment, materials and methods of landscaping and maintenance of lawns and plantings.
• Ability to operate riding and push mower, edger, week trimmer, blower, sprayer, tiller, aerator, skid steer loader and basic hand tools.
• Participates in a variety of general equipment maintenance tasks. Helps maintain vehicle, equipment, checks and tops off fluid levels and keeps equipment and trailer clean and orderly.
• Other duties assigned as needed.

 EXPERIENCE:

• Preferred 1 year of landscape related work with demonstrated team skills.

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES:

• Valid Oklahoma driver’s license or state ID.

SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Skills:
  • Work with other employees, ability to foster teamwork, team player, detail and deadline oriented, multitasking, organizational skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, and keen attention to detail.
• Typical Physical Demands:
  • Ability to work in the following conditions: outdoor work environment, requiring frequent exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures for possibly eight hours or more.
  • Standing, sitting, walking, climbing/ladders, squatting/kneeling, reaching, grasping, pushing/pulling, twisting/bending, lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs. multiple times per shift.
  • Ability to understand and follow directions.
  • Requires normal range of hearing and vision

Job Function(s): Operations 

Love’s has been fueling customers’ journeys since 1964. Innovation and perseverance continue to lead the way for the family-owned and -operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City with more than 40,000 team members in North America and Europe. The company’s core business is travel stops and convenience stores with more than 630 locations in 42 states. Love’s continues its commitment to offer products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, four-wheel customers, RVers, alternative fuel and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities Love’s serves and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workplace are hallmarks of the company’s award-winning culture.

The Love’s Family of Companies includes:

• Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry’s safest trucking fleets.
• Speedco and Love’s Truck Care, the largest oil change and preventive maintenance and total truck care network.
• Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader.
• Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert.
• TVC Pro-driver, a commercial driver’s license (CDL) protection subscription service.