Golf Course Maintenance / Operators

Job Summary:

The Golf Course Maintenance / Operators will perform landscaping and related services required to maintain safe and attractive grounds.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Maintains cups, tees, fairways, rough, ball washers and related facilities Cleans and rakes bunkers.
• Operates a variety of small power equipment such as chainsaws, buffers, grinders, drills, solder guns, compressors, tapping machines, and other similar tools used in golf maintenance, construction, and repair work; performs minor mechanical repairs on such equipment.
• Operates equipment and other vehicles such as golf course tractors with a frontend loader attached, backhoe, trailered equipment, mowers, aerifiers, or other similar machines.
• Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines; shores excavations; install and maintain irrigation pipe.
• Trims, prunes, and spray trees and vegetation.
• Plans and cultivates lawns, turf, or gardens and, based on designs, determines further work that should occur.
• Delivers and spreads topsoil and/or straw over newly seeded areas.
• Prepares chemicals as needed for application by mixing according to directions.
• Manufactures tee mat pads by construction forms, pouring, and finishing cement. Lays small asphalt, patches holes in roadways, cart paths around the facility.
• Where artificial turf is used, periodically replaces cushion pads; vacuums, and disinfects turf after use.
• Performs regular and seasonal maintenance on irrigation systems including any necessary winterizing procedures.
• Installs and maintains landscape work such as landscape timbers, flower beds, raking, digging, tree planting, pruning bushes.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Good verbal communication skills.
• Basic understanding of grounds keeping and landscaping practices and procedures.
• Ability to work efficiently and thoroughly.
• Ability to follow directions.
• Thorough understanding of how to care for various types of lawns, greenery, and plants.
• Ability to operate various types of power equipment including lawnmowers, trimmers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, and other landscaping equipment.
• Ability to use hand tools required for maintaining grounds.
• Ability to follow instructions and complete assignments.

• Prolonged periods standing, walking, stretching, bending, climbing ladders, kneeling, and pulling.
• Must be able to lift 50+ pounds at a time.
• Must be physically able to operate power equipment.
• Must be able to work holidays and weekends.
• Must be able to work in a variety of weather conditions.