Job description

Skilled Venue Grounds Keeper & Landscaping
Starting pay is $19-$22 an hour DOE
Part-Time

The Chateau Lill is a 10-acre estate located just outside the Woodinville city limits. We are seeking a Part-time Venue Grounds Keeper & Landscaping to join our team. The ideal candidate will be interested in a long-term role and a detail mindset in keeping the property show ready! The position will require hands-on work and possibly taking on specialized tasks in the gardens. There will be an initial training period working with the owner of the property & our Master Gardener which will lead to a weekly schedule of maintaining specific areas of the venue by yourself with some direction by the Venue Manager.

Duties Include (but not limited to!):

● Greeting and assisting guests and visitors

● Picking up litter and debris and sweeping outdoors before and after events

● Last minute interior check prior to guest arrival; garbage emptied

● Replacing light bulbs around property (exterior building; flood lights; low voltage lights; Christmas strings)

● Spreading gravel in trouble spots in parking pastures prior to events (during periods of heavy rain)

● Monitoring and adjusting pond flow valve during periods of heavy rain (flood prevention)

● Keeping highway gutters clear during periods of heavy rain

● Checking highway for litter

● Skimming pond algae as required (summer)

● Monitoring and repairing or reporting broken fences/posts

● Monitoring and repairing or reporting property safety concerns

● Repairing or reporting property and building maintenance concerns

● Property enhancements

● Feeding and monitoring animals for health and safety

● Ordering animal feed

● Monitoring and filling (animal) water buckets

● Mucking stalls

● Monitoring owner property when away

● Helping with indoor and outdoor tasks and projects as required

● Turning down heat, turning off lights and locking building at end of day

Annual tasks, jobs and projects:

Early Spring:

● Wasp control

● Orchard pruning

● Cut back ornamental grasses

Spring (prior to first wedding in May):

● Hanging basket purchase and placement

● Close all spigots on property and turn on irrigation

● Replace pond screens and fountain

Early fall:

● Purchase and place outdoor fall display (pumpkins, etc.)

● Remove pond fountain and overflow screens (after weather cools)

Late fall (Nov):

● Remove hanging baskets and annuals (weather dependent – generally they stay until after the first hard frost)

● Turn off water and open all spigots to bleed irrigation lines. Spigot locations:

o (4) upper property

o (3) on outside of garden barn

o (1) just inside and to the right of big door in garden barn (behind outside spigot)

o (1) on patio retaining wall near pond (at end of boxwood hedge)

o (1) next to patio pond on other side of creek at corner of pond edge (underground)

o (1) opposite steps on other side of creek (midway down creek in garden bed)

o (1) in lilac hedge (parking area)

Mid-winter (Jan):

Weddings in Woodinville property prep:

o Plant containers with annuals

o Rake and weed garden beds

o Replace exterior lights

o Deadhead rhodies and hydrangeas

o Property sweep/enhancements as required

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $19.00 - $22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 – 28 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Every weekend
• Morning shift
• Rotating weekends
• Year round work

Experience:

• Maintenance: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Work Location: In person