Landscape Gardener

About the Position :

The Landscape Gardner is responsible for assisting in the care of the University's gardens, lawns, and sports fields alongside other Grounds Staff members. The ideal candidate will have at least one year of related landscaping or groundskeeping experience.

About the Work Unit :

Vanderbilt Maintenance & Operations (VUMO) provides facilities support for construction, renovation, and routine maintenance of University spaces; housekeeping for approximately 5.8 million square feet; grounds care for 330 acres including a registered arboretum; turf care for athletic fields; and utilities for the University Central and Medical Center.

VUMO's annual budget exceeds $100 million, with over 400 employees. It manages major capital projects totaling around $125 million annually, along with facility renewal, replacement, and large maintenance projects costing about $20 million annually.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Mixing and applying herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides
• Minor irrigation repairs
• Litter policing and trash pickup
• Weeding in shrub, flower, and groundcover beds
• Leaf raking and debris collection
• Recycling pickup
• Mowing lawns with reel, push, walk-behind, and zero-turn mowers
• Pressure washing and hand watering plants
• Cleaning stairwells, gutters, and storm drains
• Snow removal
• Planting trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and flowers
• Mulching landscape beds
• Lining sports and recreational fields
• Herbicide spraying with Roundup
• Supporting special events
• Storm damage cleanup with arborist crew
• Outdoor furniture placement and removal
• Lawn maintenance including aeration, slit seeding, overseeding, and fertilizing
• Applying pre-emergent herbicides in beds
• Occasional bike removal
• Operating and maintaining landscape trucks and equipment such as weed eaters, blowers, edgers, loaders, tractors, sprayers, snowplows, woodchippers, and stump grinders
• Operating trucks and golf carts
• Performing related duties as assigned

Working Hours : Monday through Friday, 7 : 00 AM – 3 : 30 PM

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