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Laborer - Grounds Maintenance
Entry-Level JobVerifiedNo experience needed
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.
$36,885 / year median in Missouri
+7% projected growth
Job Description
Job Requirements Saint Louis, MO Public Trust Polygraph not specified Entry Level (less than 2 yrs experience) $48,630 - $48,630 Job Description Job Summary This position is responsible for ensuring campus grounds are kept clean, neat, and meeting contractual requirements, while providing effective customer service and achieving customer satisfaction by delivering services in a professional, courteous, and timely manner for our National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) West Base Operations Support Contract. Primary Duties Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. These duties and responsibilities will be rated on the Annual Performance Review. Mow, edge, prune, and trim plants. Maintain plant beds, weed control, fence line vegetation control, and police grounds. Provide grounds maintenance and quality inspections for the contract on a year-round seasonal program. Cut all grass around trees, shrubs, planting beds, building, parking lots, signs, and other obstacles within mowing areas. Operate, inspect, test, maintain, and repair stand-on mowers, string trimmers, weed-eaters, edger, snow and leaf blowers, handheld hedge trimmers, spreaders, and other similar seasonal maintenance equipment. Additional Responsibilities Assist in performing seasonal grounds maintenance by providing quality service in accordance with the contract specifications. Maintain turf by watering, fertilizing, weeding, mowing, trimming, replanting, and performing other operations as required to establish healthy, viable turf. Transport large debris, leaves, trash, etc. from origination to disposal site. Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws. Gather and remove litter. Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools. Assist in moving lawn equipment from client campus to storage or maintenance facility. Perform snow and ice removal from parking lots and walkways by using shovels, spreaders, and deicers such as salt and ice melt. Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, planters, or other grounds features. Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.