LANDSCAPING ASSOCIATE

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.