What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cemetery Grounds Crew - Temporary position at Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services of the Diocese of Sacramento?
Job Description
Position: Cemetery Grounds Crew - Temporary (6 months)
Position Status: Full-Time
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7am - 3:30pm
Category: Non-Exempt
Pay Range: $21.67 - $24.08 per hour
Supervisor: Reports to the Cemetery Grounds Working Foreman
Job Description
The Cemetery Grounds Crew maintains cemetery grounds and prepares graves, grave areas including and not limited to grave excavation; burial functions (opening/closing for interments, entombments, inurnments, disinterment); lawn sodding, seeding, fertilizing; monument and marker setting; manual and mechanical earth moving and lawn care equipment operation; cemetery cleanup.
Position Components
Requisites
Position: Cemetery Grounds Crew - Temporary (6 months)
Position Status: Full-Time
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7am - 3:30pm
Category: Non-Exempt
Pay Range: $21.67 - $24.08 per hour
Supervisor: Reports to the Cemetery Grounds Working Foreman
Job Description
The Cemetery Grounds Crew maintains cemetery grounds and prepares graves, grave areas including and not limited to grave excavation; burial functions (opening/closing for interments, entombments, inurnments, disinterment); lawn sodding, seeding, fertilizing; monument and marker setting; manual and mechanical earth moving and lawn care equipment operation; cemetery cleanup.
Position Components
Requisites
- Reports to the Cemetery Grounds Working Foreman
- Operate hand-held tools and equipment including but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledgehammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw and pump
- Operate mechanical equipment including and not limited to a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailer, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper, and backhoe
- Use accurately measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yard stick, etc.)
- Communicate effectively with fellow workers, contractor personnel and client families
- Lift heavy objects up to 30 lbs.
- Minimum six months' experience operating standard cemetery equipment
- Certification / license: Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment /vehicles
- High School degree or equivalent
- Perform opening & closing for burials, entombments, and inurnments
- Set, installs, and assemble foundations, memorials, and markers
- Install outer burial containers
- Handle and complete Client Family work orders that pertain to individual grave and marker maintenance
- Respond to and complete service request work orders
- Perform interment verification procedures
- Prepares the 25-foot burial radius area to ensure clean and well-ordered
- Fill grave, tamps, grounds vegetation
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area
- Pressure washes vehicles and equipment as requested
- Perform other ground duties as assigned by Management
- Follow all Company safety rules
- Bring safety concerns to the direct supervisor
- Maintain and protect Company assets by performing regular preventive maintenance including machines, equipment, and facilities
Salary : $22 - $24