Grounds Person - SL

Reports to: Assistant Superintendent

Supervises: No supervisory duties are included in this position.

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

• 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 supervisor.

• • Some High School.

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

• Valid driver’s license.

• 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.