Enhancement Landscape Laborer ( Van Buren)
BrightView
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform plant removal, replanting of lawn, converting lawn areas to planters, or planters to lawn, replace broken sidewalk, lay mow strips, mulch, prune and plant trees.
- Serve as backup to interior, landscaping maintenance, gardening, irrigation technology and grounds person job or job function.
- Remove or plant grass, utilize garden tools including rakes, shovels, picks, etc.
- Dig trenches and set up cement forms for sidewalk replacement, mow strips, and planters.
- Utilize pruning and trimming equipment to maintain trees and shrubs.
- Operate lawn maintenance equipment including a 36" mower, blower, gas powered trimmer, and other power equipment.
- Water plants, lawns, and gardens.
- Apply fertilizer in accordance with scheduled use and application standards.
- Perform plant, weed, trim, and blow activities
- Remove materials from overhead racks on truck and transport materials from site to site.
- Handle tools, dig, cement fish, plant, weed, maintain, and mow
- 6 months commercial landscape experience preferred but no required
- Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration
- Current drivers' license
- Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finishing cement surfaces, preparing forms for cement pours, and weeding
- Ability to work with cement in preparing for the pour and following finishing procedures.
- Ability to operate a truck with trailer/gate and ramp for loading, unloading and transport of equipment
- Ability to stand for 5 minutes, walk for 2 hours and sit for 30 minutes consecutively
- Ability to lift and carry tools, equipment, and materials weighing up to 20 pounds. Distance carried - 50 feet maximum.
- Ability to handle items such as plants, bushes, hoses, shovels, rakes, and burlap bags - which are handled by two workers.
- Ability to lift 30-50 lbs. (120 lbs. trees lifted and carried by 4 individuals) a distance of 20 feet for planting.
- Ability to push or pull grass into rolls requiring force up to 20 lbs.
- Ability to push/pull, twist, and turn trees with a force of up to 35 lbs. when planting trees.
- Must be able to bend at the waist when picking up leaves, branches, trimming, mowing, digging trenches, setting forms, and planting.
- Must possess current drivers' license.