Landscape Management Technician

Job Title : Cemetery Maintenance Worker

Under direction of the Cemetery Operations Manager, perform duties and functions in a maintenance and service capacity. Scope of work to include; maintain cemetery grounds and grave areas including and not limited to irrigation repair and assist in grave excavation; burial functions (opening / closing for interments, entombments, inurnments, disinterment); lawn sodding, seeding, fertilizing; monument and marker setting; manual and mechanical earth moving and lawn care equipment operation. Facilitates special events, services, and programs for Veteran's Cemetery.

Essential Functions :

• Plan, coordinate, conduct, a wide variety of services provided by the Veterans Cemetery, including the maintenance and landscaping of all cemetery grounds, facilities, parking area, medians, and irrigation repair.
• Execute workload and schedules set by management. Interpret and implement policies and procedures.
• Make daily / periodic inspections & repair of maintenance equipment to ensure proper operation and employee safety.
• Prepare a variety of reports such as operational, activity, and equipment maintenance reports and other reports as requested; recommend purchase requisitions.
• Communicate effectively with fellow workers, contractor personnel and client families, ensure that procedures and rules are followed at the facility.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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Physical Requirements :

Essential duties require the following physical skills and work environment : Heavy work. Exerting up to 100lbs. of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and / or fingers, knees, and back. Employee is required to have dexterity to perform kneeling, crouching, bending at the waist, and occasional over-head work; extensive physical labor.