GROUNDS

  Grounds Person 

Related Titles: Landscaper, Golf Course Laborer; Practice Area Attendant; Groundskeeper; Landscape Gardener; Course Utility Worker; Section Person 

Reports to: Golf Course Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent and Foreman 

Supervises: No supervisory duties are included in this position. 

Classification:  

Education and/or Experience 

· Some High School. 

· Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greenskeeping. 

Job Knowledge, Core Competencies and Expectations 

· Knowledge of golf course operations. 

· Knowledge of irrigation systems. 

· Knowledge of and ability to perform required role in emergency situations. 

Job Summary (Essential Functions) 

Maintain golf course and landscaping around the course, clubhouse and other club facilities, including parking lots. 

Job Tasks/Duties  

· Plants and maintains ornamental shrubs and trees. 

· Trims and feeds shrubs and trees; removes cuttings. 

· Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds. 

· Rakes and blows leaves. 

· Mows greens and fairways by operating walk-behind turf equipment. 

· Prepares and lays sod. 

· Prepares soil plant beds, and establishes plantings by seed or transplants. 

· Maintains annual and perennial flowers in aesthetic arrangements. 

· Rakes bunkers. 

· Loads and unloads materials. 

· Repairs and maintains driving range tees. 

· Cleans equipment used in practice area. 

· Aerifies and spikes greens. 

· Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines. 

· Installs pipe and backfills excavations. 

· Empties garbage cans. 

· Attends staff meetings. 

· Performs other appropriate tasks assigned by the Golf Course Maintenance Foreman. 

Licenses and Special Requirements 

· Pesticide Applicator certificate. 

· Valid driver’s license. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

· Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. 

· Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. 

· Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. 

· Able to meet and perform the physical requirements and to work effectively in an environment which is typical of this position. 

· Frequent lifting, bending, climbing, stooping and pulling.  

· May need to use some protective equipment, such as a respirator, gloves, earplugs, eye guards/visors, boots and hat.