About this opportunity
Craven County Schools lists this GROUNDS KEEPER I opportunity in new bern, North Carolina. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
GROUNDS KEEPER IAn employee in this class uses a variety of tools and equipment to maintain grounds including planting, cultivating, spraying, pruning, and cutting plants, trees, shrubs, grass, and flowers, and provides on-site leadership. This employee determines the care and treatment necessary to maintain grounds in good condition. To assure an attractive and orderly landscape, non-routine problems concerning the selection, placement, care, and treatment of plants are referred to a supervisor or nursery dealer for advice. Errors may be quickly revealed, or may only be revealed upon loss of plant life, and may be expensive. Limited supervision is given. The employee serves as a lead worker in providing direction to crew members.Illustrative examples of work include:Cutting lawns. Trimming and edging.Pruning shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth. Removing damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.Spraying lawns, plants, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides, using hand or automatic sprayer.Conditioning and preparing soils and transplanting or planting seeds, seedlings or bulbs according to instructions and planned design of landscaped area.Planting grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs following sketches and designs when available. Watering lawns, shrubs, and flowers.Maintaining paths or road surfaces.Performing ground maintenance duties, using tractor equipped with attachments, such as mowers, lime or fertilizer spreaders, lawn roller, and snow removal equipment, and operating heavy power equipment.Driving dump trucks and transporting tractor and ground maintenance equipment. Making minor repairs to mowers and other equipment.Sharpening tools. Training employees.Assigning work to crew members. Observing work in progress.Giving directions for corrections as needed.Reporting outstanding or unsatisfactory work and behavior to supervisors.Knowledge, skills and abilities include:Working knowledge of grounds keeping and elementary horticultural practices.Working knowledge of planting, cultivating, pruning, spraying, and trimming requirements of flowers, shrubs and trees.Skill to drive dump trucks.Skill to transport tractors and other maintenance equipment. Skill to operate heavy power equipment.Ability to use, sharpen and make minor repairs to tools and equipment. Ability to follow oral or written instructions.Ability to follow simple landscape sketches and designs.Ability to coordinate the efforts of a group of employees.Ability to train other workers.Ability to provide leadership to employees in this class.Suggested training and experience includes considerable experience in the care and maintenance of plants, trees, flowers, and shrubs.Special requirements include holding a pesticide applicator's license based on State requirements, as directed by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, and holding an appropriate North Carolina drivers license for the weight and type of vehicles operated as required by the Department of Motor Vehicles.Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board and local policy on evaluation of personnel.Disclaimer: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job. As such, it is not intended to contain all of the duties and qualifications required of an employee in a single position (job). Consequently, it is not to be perceived as a position (job) description or as identification of essential functions as required by ADA.
Worksite address
new bern, NC, 28560, US
Who can apply
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