Gardener (UN)

Description

Job Title:Gardener

Department: Base Operations & Maintenance

Job Summary:

The Gardener will maintain trees and woody plants to ensure their healthy, safe, and attractive condition, including chemical applications, repairing, cabling, fertilizing, watering, pruning, and removal of any dead, diseased, or declining trees or other woody plants.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Maintains a superior landscape appearance by performing horticultural and landscape practices, including but not limited to properly trimming trees, pruning plant material when needed, implementing, and monitoring Integrated Pest Management (IPM) procedures

• Ensures irrigation needs are met by coordinating the adjustments of watering times with the irrigation department

• Knowledge on how to repair, cable, fertilize, water, and prune trees and other woody plants

• Knowledge on removing dead, diseased, or declining trees or different types of plants

• Plants and transplants wooded plants to include hole preparation, backfilling, staking, pruning, watering, and mulching

• Identify and recognizes diseased insect problems of trees and woody plants and apply appropriate treatments

• May assist in various maintenance activities as required

• Maintains records of work performed

• Assists in maintaining tree inventory records

• Identifies potentially hazardous trees and other tree-related problems

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient written and oral communication skills according to skill requirements

• Possess strong computer skills, able to read, write, and comprehend written instructional documents

• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume

• Ability to apply concepts of introductory algebra and geometry

• Proficient Microsoft Office productivity suite

• Knowledge of horticulture methods and materials, landscaping and cultivation of trees and plants

• Knowledge of horticultural practices, plant taxonomy, and insect/disease control

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• At least two years of related experience required

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged period of standing, bending, reaching, and working with hands

• Occasional periods of prolonged exposure to loud noises

• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds at times

• Ability to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands as necessary

• Ability to hear and see to position and safety requirement levels

• Occasional exposure to elements such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, and chemicals

Special Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be able to successfully pass as required a federal, state, or local government's background investigation

• Arborist Certification

Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Description last Updated: 07/25/2022

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