Grounds Specialist - San Fernando Mission Cemetery

• Safely operate heavy equipment, the backhoe, mower, sweeper, trimmer, dump truck or other cemetery equipment.
• Makes certain that equipment is clean and maintained in good operating condition to ensure safety.
• Sets up graves for interment services, seals vault, backfills and tamps graves, replaces sod; trims all memorials and monuments on cemetery grounds.
• Sets up tents as necessary; handles and stores dirt sheets and greens.
• Mow, edges, sweeps lawns.
• Removes flowers, cares for vases.
• Prunes, fertilizes, and waters the grounds.
• Cares for flowerbeds and areas around buildings.
• Raises graves and memorials, levels lawn.
• Cleans office and performs janitorial maintenance.
• Gathers and removes trash.
• Acts as funeral attendant; assists priests, patrons and funeral directors as necessary.
• May train other ground workers and is responsible for safe and careful handling of all cemetery property and equipment; makes certain of its proper use and security.
• Inform Manager/Supervisor of needed maintenance or repairs to equipment, or buildings and submits monthly inspection reports.
• Performs other minor maintenance work. Evaluates and recommends the need for equipment and sprinkler system maintenance and repairs.
• Maintains accurate records and reports and inventories of all supplies and submits them to Manager/Supervisor monthly.
• Maintains good personal appearance; conducts self in a manner befitting funerals and respect for the dead.
• Follows, enforces, and maintain safety rules and regulations. May instruct other grounds personnel in cemetery safety procedures and policies; maintains accurate records and a safe work environment.
• Maintains cooperative and positive work relationships with management and co-workers.
• May assist a Manager/Supervisor in the reviewing and evaluation of other grounds personnel.
• Works with management to accommodate special circumstances with patrons.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Basic English language usage.
• Application of training in procedures and safety practices relative to interments/entombments and disinterment's/disentombments.
• Excavating, hauling, dumping, edging and trimming equipment operation and repair.
• Lawn, grounds, and equipment maintenance.

• Interpersonal relations.
• Training, coaching, and directing the work of others
• Maintaining positive public relations with patrons, funeral directors, priests, and vendors.
• Safe and efficient use of required machinery and equipment.

• Understand and follow written and oral instructions.
• Plan and complete job on own initiative.
• Train, assign and delegate workload, as needed.
• Lift heavy objects and equipment's.
• Handle grave set-ups, tins and sod carefully.
• Dig and Backfill graves, transport vaults and layout graves on own after initial instruction from supervisor/Assistant Supervisor.

• Lift objects weighing a minimum of 50 pounds unassisted and be able to lift heavier objects with the aid of other grounds workers.
• Sit for sustained periods of time on a daily basis.
• Perform tasks requiring intermittent bending, stooping and walking.
• Sustain frequent movement of the fingers, wrists, hands, waist and arms.

$21.97-$26.92