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BrightView
Landscaper/Driver (Pontiac) Experience and Chauffeurs license REQUIRED
Career Insights for Landscaping / Groundskeeping Worker
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What they do
A Landscaping or Groundskeeping Worker provides landscaping for residences, parks, public gardens, college campuses or building or office park grounds. Provides care for plants and trees including mowing, trimming and planting, and repairs driveways, walks, benches or other structures.
$38,272 / year median in Michigan
+7% projected growth
Job Description
- Description
- The Best Teams are Created and Maintained Here.
THE PAY RANGE FOR THIS ROLE IS
$18-$21 PERHOUR AND IS BASED ON PREVIOUS RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS ANY LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS YOU HOLD.
- Job Summary
- + The Landscaper/Driver provide landscape maintenance support to a variety of industrial, commercial, and public properties. This position performs basic tasks with supervision and supports the safe operation of commercial grade landscaping equipment as well as the upkeep of plant material and other landscaping elements.
- In this role you will also function as the crew driver, as needed but up to daily.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- + •Drive Company vehicle with and without a trailer attached; getting crew and equipment from site to site, as needed but up to daily.
- + Cut turf using various sized power mowers, trimming, and edging using a gas-powered edger/trimmer, and operating a gas-powered blower + Prune shrubs and low trees as needed to improve the shape or growth habit or to remove damaged branches + Plant and maintain flower beds + Operate the edger and line trimmer along sidewalks, flower beds, trees, buildings, fences, and other objects + Pick up trash and blow leaves and other organic debris on to the turf before mowing.
Education and Experience:
- + At least 18 years old, +
- Must have a Chauffeur's licenses
- or have the ability to obtain one,
- at your cost
- , before an offer can be made. +
- Must submit to and pass
- a criminal background check, Driver Records check and
- DOT Medical Physical which includes a Drug Test by Federal Mandate within 48 hours of an offer being made.
- + Enthusiastic and dependable + Ability to safely work with equipment like power saws and cutters + Certified on level 1 equipment (backpack blower, stick edger, string trimmer, walk-behind mower) + Familiar with basic horticultural maintenance operations/practices
Physical Demands/Requirements:
- + Ability to lift and carry 40 lbs. (mulch, fertilizer, etc.) + Ability to load/unload burlaps with plant cuttings onto trailer (up to 50 lbs.) + Ability to bend, stoop and twist continuously throughout the day
Work Environment:
- + Work in/or about situations near direct automotive traffic + Work near or about natural bodies of water + Ability to work in extreme conditions - temperatures may exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit + Ability to work in direct sunlight for extended periods of time + Work outdoors in moderate to extreme heat in dry/humid near automotive traffic, natural bodies of water, fumes, dust, mechanical/electrical hazards and direct sunlight.
- _BrightView offers a suite or health, wellness, and financial benefits to full-time team members.
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