Maintenance Worker

Job Description

Description:

Responsible for the cultivation and care of the landscaping and grounds surrounding a business or building. Plants flowers, mows, pulls weeds, repairs structures, and maintains outside of building.

Primary Responsibilities

Perform grounds keeping and building maintenance duties.

Mow lawn either by hand or using a riding lawnmower.

Cut lawn using hand, power or riding mower and trim and edge around walks, flower beds, and walls.

Landscape by planting flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes.

Apply pesticide to rid grounds of pests such as mosquitos, wasps, ticks, and others.

Apply fertilizer to ground to enhance growth.

Shovel snow from walkways and sprinkle ice down to keep people from falling.

Perform routine maintenance duties such as applying plaster, fixing fountains, and other duties.

Sweep walkway of debris.

Cut down tree limbs that are posing a danger.

Trim shrubs and pull weeds.

Perform minor repairs and maintenance procedures on equipment utilized in grounds keeping.

Install lawn furniture.

Rake, mulch, and prune the grounds as needed.

Install rock, cement, lighting, water, and furniture.

Water plants and grass as needed and apply fertilizer.Requirements: