What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pruning Technician/ Gardener position at Lawn Stars Group, LLC?
Job Summary: Responsible for pruning, or trimming branches and leaves from trees, plants, and flower beds to prevent damage and destruction or for aesthetic purposes. Hand weeding and deadheading foliage on a regularly scheduled maintenance route. Primary responsibilities:
- Hand weed landscape beds and remove dead foliage.
- Cut away dead, obstructive, or excess branches from trees and shrubbery.
- Prune or treat trees or shrubs using handsaws, pruning hooks, sheers, and clippers.
- Prune flower beds.
- Remove debris and cart away large limbs for disposal.
- Use shovels and rakes to clear debris.
- Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
- Spray and treat diseased trees. (Not required)
- Reshape trees to create aesthetically pleasing shapes.
Additionally, employees are expected to abide by all internal control & compliance practices to:
- Safeguard assets from theft and misuse
- Ensure segregation of duties to minimize fraud
- Comply with business ethics, applicable laws and regulation
- Maintain confidentiality of proprietary information
- Periodically reconcile physical assets to accounting records
Skills you need to have to qualify for this position:
- Use hand equipment with mechanized moving blades such as gas powered shears
- Use manual hand tools such as shovels
- Use a hand shovel for extended period
- Moves soil, equipment, and materials, digs holes, and plant trees, shrubs and
- Work in/or about situations near direct automotive traffic
- Work near or about natural bodies of water
- Work 8 hours per day with applicable breaks x 5 days/week (some overtime/weekend work required)
- Ability to work in extreme conditions – temperatures may exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit
- Ability to work in direct sunlight for extended periods of time
- Ability to lift and carry 40 lbs. (mulch, fertilizer, etc.)
- Ability to load/unload burlaps with plant cuttings onto trailer (up to 50 lbs.)
- Ability to bend, stoop and twist continuously throughout the day
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: In person
Salary : $16 - $20
