What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grounds Staff position at Country Club of Indianapolis?
Job Summary:
The Grounds Staff are key members of the course maintenance team and is responsible for the landscaping and maintenance around the golf course.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintains clean and organized works areas on the golf course and maintenance facility
- Mows greens, aprons, fairways, roughs, tees, and other areas
- Waters tees, greens and fairways; operates irrigation heads in dry areas needing additional water
- Repairs the irrigation system, pipes and irrigation heads as needed
- Grades and prepares soil base, lays sod and seeds greens, tees and fairways
- Trims and prunes hedges and shrubbery; cleans flower beds
- Applies pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers to the golf course
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications, Experience and Skill Requirements:
- Must possess the ability design, coordinate, and maintain landscaping on the golf course
- Must possess the ability to create spray programs for the golf course including greens, tees, fairways, roughs, and landscaping
- Must possess the ability to operate all tools and equipment related to golf course operations
- Ability to give oral and written instructions
- Skilled in seeding, fertilizing, mulching, and general ground preparation for restoration and renovation
- Must be dependable
Working Condition:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms.
- The employee is often required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls.
- They will occasionally be required to balance, stoop, twist upper body, kneel, and climb.
- The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 30lbs occasionally.
- Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- Moderate exposure to extreme cold, heat, working outdoors, chemicals, pesticides, gasoline, vibration, pollen, dust, mechanical hazards and electrical hazards.
- Noise level is typically loud
- Work extended hours during golf and holiday season
- Work weekends and holidays