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Golf Course Groundskeeper

Tioga Downs
Nichols, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 3/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/23/2026
Golf Course Groundskeeper

FREE Golf, all season long!

Bring your passion for the outdoors to life in a dynamic role where you help shape and maintain a beautiful, high-performing golf course environment. From precision mowing and landscape care to operating powerful equipment and supporting critical maintenance operations, every day offers hands-on variety and the chance to see the results of your work. If you take pride in craftsmanship, value safety, and enjoy working with your hands in a fast-paced setting, this is your opportunity to grow and make a visible impact.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following: 

•Ensure adherence to all OSHA regulations and codes, NFPA Standards and internal safety policies and procedures.

•Perform landscape maintenance, plant flowers, grass, shrubs and bushes, trim, water and fertilize, rake, mulch and prune.

•Responsible for mowing grass on the tee boxes, fairways, roughs, fringes, greens, and around walkways, walls, and flowerbeds using a mower.

•Maintains surroundings of the golf course.

•Conduct preventive maintenance on all equipment as assigned.

•Supports other Maintenance Engineer and Superintendent as needed and assigned.

•Responsible for use and care of tools and equipment.

•Responsible for correctively using, Z mowers, backhoes, and skid steers.

•Responsible for keeping maintenance buildings clean and secure as well as surrounding yard area.

•All other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

High School diploma or GED required.  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate 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 associate is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.  The associate frequently is required to stand, walk, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  

The associate must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing 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 associate regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to risk of electrical shock and radiation.  The associate occasionally works in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to extreme heat or cold.  There are also strong smells the associate will come in contact with.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  When around equipment or mechanical rooms, the noise level will increase to loud.

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