What are the responsibilities and job description for the Irrigation System Specialist position at Jekyll Island Georgia?
Company Overview
Jekyll Island Authority is a coastal haven where nature and humans peacefully co-exist. Surrounded by salt marshes, expansive oceanfront, and ancient maritime forests, it is situated within the chain of the Golden Isles and just a few miles from St. Simons Island, Sea Island, and Brunswick.
Job Summary
As an Irrigation Technician, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the irrigation systems across Jekyll Island Authority's landscaping work properly. You will install new underground piping, make repairs as necessary, and maintain sprinkler heads, controllers, valves, water lines, pumps, and other equipment. Additional duties include working on projects designated to the Landscape department or assigned by the Landscape Operations Manager or Director of Landscape and Planning.
Responsibilities
Jekyll Island Authority is a coastal haven where nature and humans peacefully co-exist. Surrounded by salt marshes, expansive oceanfront, and ancient maritime forests, it is situated within the chain of the Golden Isles and just a few miles from St. Simons Island, Sea Island, and Brunswick.
Job Summary
As an Irrigation Technician, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the irrigation systems across Jekyll Island Authority's landscaping work properly. You will install new underground piping, make repairs as necessary, and maintain sprinkler heads, controllers, valves, water lines, pumps, and other equipment. Additional duties include working on projects designated to the Landscape department or assigned by the Landscape Operations Manager or Director of Landscape and Planning.
Responsibilities
- Makes daily observations of turf, shrubs, and trees for irrigation needs and takes appropriate action.
- Maintains and tests sprinkler system controllers via routine visual testing of system components such as electronic control board; tests and replaces electrical wiring and related components, using test meter, soldering equipment, and wire strippers.
- Drives truck with appropriate attachments to deliver pipe and haul tools and equipment to specified installation worksite.
- Operates crawler-type trench diggers to dig trenches along pre-stakes routes or areas.
- Supports landscape construction projects as needed.
- Installs water lines; mends lines following the detection of leaks by visual inspection; tests for freezes in lines before winter startup.
- Measures plastic pipe to specified length and cuts using handsaw; applies plastic cement to the pipe as required.
- Assists in maintaining an adequate inventory of sprinkler heads, valves, and other spare parts used in irrigation systems.
- Works with others on Landscape projects as assigned.
