Assistant Landscape Specialist

Description

SUMMARY:

The Assistant Landscape Specialist will assist in the maintenance and improvement of the Casino's landscapes, ensuring a welcoming and aesthetically pleasing environment for our Guests and Team Members. You will work closely with the Landscape Specialist and the Golf Course Superintendent to care for lawns, landscape beds, plants, and Casino Interiorscape.  In this position your daily tasks will include planting, trimming, watering, and general upkeep of the Landscape. The ideal candidate should have a passion for plants, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work efficiently in a team-oriented environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensures that the grounds are clean, safe, and tidy and to ensure the gardens, woodlands, fields, and hedges are properly prepared for each season and cared for during the season.
• Prunes and perform all mechanical care of plant materials and lawn areas of the casino complex.
• Assists in propagating, planting, and maintaining annuals, perennial flowers, grasses, and woody plant materials to the highest standard of horticulture practices.
• Educates coworkers and members of the visiting public on the care and maintenance of the landscape and plant selection.
• Cleans and maintains tools and equipment daily and alerts the equipment manager or technicians to substandard or unsafe equipment.
• Install hardscape, bark, rock, and irrigation where needed.
• Operates mowers, blowers, line trimmers, when needed.
• Operates tractors for loading and trailers for carting soil, debris, tools, and machinery.
• Safely and correctly applies fertilizes or pesticides to control unwanted plants or pests and coordinate fertilization of large lawn areas with the Golf Course Maintenance team
• Installs, removes, and maintains outdoor Christmas light displays on landscape and buildings.
• Makes recommendations on purchases and placement of interior plants.
• Work outside, for long periods of time in all aspects of weather.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.  

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Experience:

• Valid driver’s license required.  
• High school diploma or equivalent required.  
• Must be 18 years of age or older.  
• One year's previous customer service experience preferred.  
• Previous experience working with grounds, landscape, or Interiorscape.

Skills/Knowledge:

• Some knowledge and interest in plant growth and development.
• Must have the physical ability and desire to learn the maintenance techniques of annual and perennial plant materials, their growth habits, and their care. 
• Plant identification, selection, care, and landscape design principles.
• Must be adaptable to changing tasks and work environment.
• Verbal communication skills required.
• Basic problem-solving skills required.
• Must work well with minimal supervision.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job is classified as a heavy strength category position.  A person in this position will exert 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally perform repetitive activities, pull, stand, walk, twist, and reach above shoulder height. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus.

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position.  The actual duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.

The Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel practices Indian Preference in hiring in the following order: 1. Coeur d’Alene Tribal Members, 2. Spouses and/or children of CDA Members, 3. Other enrolled members of Federally Recognized Tribes and 4. All other applicants.