Grounds Person

Description

Job Summary (Essential Functions) 

• Maintain golf course and landscaping around the course, clubhouse and other club facilities, including parking lots. 

Job Tasks/Duties

• Plants and maintains ornamental shrubs and trees. 
• Trims and feeds shrubs and trees; removes cuttings. 
• Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds. 
• Rakes and blows leaves. 
• Mows greens and fairways by operating walk-behind turf equipment. 
• Prepares and lays sod. 
• Prepares soil plant beds, and establishes plantings by seed or transplants. 
• Maintains annual and perennial flowers in aesthetic arrangements. 
• Rakes bunkers. 
• Loads and unloads materials. 
• Repairs and maintains driving range tees. 
• Cleans equipment used in practice area. 
• Aerifies and spikes greens. 
• Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines. 
• Installs pipe and backfills excavations. 
• Empties garbage cans. 
• Attends staff meetings. 
• Performs other appropriate tasks assigned by the Golf Course Maintenance Foreman.

Requirements

Education and/or Experience

• Some High School. 
• Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greenskeeping. 

Job Knowledge, Core Competencies and Expectations

• Knowledge of golf course operations. 
• Knowledge of irrigation systems. 
• Knowledge of and ability to perform required role in emergency situations.

Licenses and Special Requirements

• Pesticide Applicator certificate. 
• Valid driver’s license. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. 
• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. 
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. 
• Able to meet and perform the physical requirements and to work effectively in an environment which is typical of this position. 
• Frequent lifting, bending, climbing, stooping and pulling. 
• May need to use some protective equipment, such as a respirator, gloves, earplugs, eye guards/visors, boots and hat.