Job Description
Job Description
Essential Functions : To perform semi-skilled maintenance and landscape tasks and to operate a wide variety of landscape equipment.
Responsibilities :
- Prepare and maintain common areas on island and street medians.
- Water, mow, weed, trim, renovate and fertilize lawns.
- Performs planting and transplanting of grasses and plants according to good horticultural practices
- Spread and places mulch, decorative stones, borders and or other landscape accents as directed.
- Maintain all island trail ways and preserves island wide.
- Perform other duties as requested.
- Comply with all Fisher Island standards (i.e., grooming, conducts, policies and procedures).
Education / Skills / Work Experience Required :
High school diploma and one-year preferred experience in landscape maintenance.Must possess a valid class D license.May be required to operate trucks, aerial trucks, power saws, hand tools, safety equipment and other hydraulic and gas powered equipment.Knowledge of methods, tools, materials and equipment used in landscaping work & fertilizers and their applications.Ability to learn proper plant & tree care, fertilizing, watering and trimming methods.Ability to acquire skill in the use and care of chain saws, edger’s, trimmers, spray tanks and other commonly used tools.Physical strength and agility sufficient to permit working overhead, and with equipment or objects weighing over 30 pounds.Ability to work independently.