Seasonal Landscaper/ Groundskeeper
Vertical Solutions
- Salt Lake City, UT
- $22.00-28.00 per hour
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Executes grounds keeping
- Mows and weed wacks grass, blows debris
- Maintains accurate records of landscaping improvement
- Landscapes by planting flowers, grass, shrubs, bushes and trees
- Applies pesticide to rid grounds of mosquitos, wasps, ticks, and others
- Regularly inspects gym property (interior and exterior) for areas of concern
- Ad hoc projects such as irrigation installation
- Provides snow removal as needed
- Applies fertilizer to enhance growth
- Applies insecticide to combat predatory insects
- Prunes, weeds, and maintains grounds as needed
- Installs rocks, cement, lighting, and watering features
- Maintain irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring
- Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls
- Uses hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes
- Ability to operate skid steer, excavator, dingo, jackhammer, and other large landscaping tools
- Gathers and removes litter
- Minimum of 2+ years of landscaping/maintenance experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot
- General maintenance skills such as winterizing building, electrical skills, some plumbing experience for maintenance of water feature, etc.
- Specialization in irrigation
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to work early mornings
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- The ability to lift, push, pull, or carry objects of at least 100 lbs.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch; or crawl; and talk; or hear
- Frequently lift and/ or move more than 50 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and depth perception
- Frequently in hot weather, operating in the heat and sun during the summer months
- Position requires the use of hand tools and power tools;
- May be required to work on the roof top, ladders and areas of great heights
- Exposed to wet and/or humid conditions
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud
- PPE may be required for this position