Groundskeeper Job Description
Groundskeeper Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective groundskeeper job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included groundskeeper job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Groundskeeper Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Groundskeeper
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: MRPT, HVAC, WHIMIS, US, CPO, OSHA, III
Education for Groundskeeper
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the groundskeeper job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Associate Degree in Education, Horticulture, Management, General Education, Arboriculture, History, Military, Construction, Arborist, Golf Course Management
Skills for Groundskeeper
Desired skills for groundskeeper include:
Desired experience for groundskeeper includes:
Groundskeeper Examples
Groundskeeper Job Description
- Assists in implementing energy conservation programs
- Assist other engineers with work orders
- Assist in any emergency situation
- Report any deficiency to the Chief Engineer
- Other tasks needed by the building or Management
- Mow, fertilize, and water lawns, shrubbery, ground cover, flowering plants and trees
- Prepare beds for planting
- Remove leaves and rubbish from grounds
- Spray herbicides as trained and directed
- Weed small areas
- In a training capacity, and/or under close supervision, cultivate, prune, plant, transplant, fertilize, and water shrubbery, ground cover, flowering plants, and trees
- May operate walking power mowers or other non-mobile power equipment
- May operate tractors or other equipment with attachments such as mower, fertilizer spreader, rototiller, sod remover, back hoe, lawn roller
- Assists in installation of irrigation systems, including digging lines, replacing heads and valves
- Plants trees, shrubs, ground cover and annual flowers
- Will be required to be on call for emergency maintenance and snow removal
Groundskeeper Job Description
- Replace light bulbs throughout the property
- Clean gutters
- Trim bushes
- Shovel snow
- Clean and maintain equipment that is used
- Hand-water lawn flowers and shrubs
- Perform light custodial operations on resort grounds and buildings, sweeping stones from paths, trash collection, emptying pet stations, mopping floors, Use mops and brooms
- Preparing trailers for daily tasks checking fluids
- Maintenance of both athletic complex and all fields, campus wide as needed
- Responsible for marking of all athletic fields for any games or practices as required
- Good attitude and team player mentality
- This position requires a criminal background check and motor vehicle report
- 3 months minimum previous experience cleaning carpets, picking up trash from grounds, maintaining pools, preferred
- Responsible for attending all company required training sessions
- Employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move over 50 pounds with assistance
- High level knowledge of and demonstrated mastery in operating and providing upkeep maintenance for heavy equipment and vehicles such as tractors, loaders, mowing machinery, rototillers, hydraulic sprayers, aerators, lawn sweepers, and tractor-mounted snow removal equipment
Groundskeeper Job Description
- Performs chemical testing and treating, filter changing, and any other routine maintenance of the indoor and outdoor fountains
- Maintains all interior / exterior plants
- Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes
- Install equipment to protect or support trees
- Plant greenery to improve landscape appearance
- Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers and/or edgers
- Rake, mulch, and compost leaves
- Remove debris from work sites
- Maintain equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning
- Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens, decorate gardens with stones or plants
- Ability to direct the work of and provide hands-on leadership for small work parties of Grounds Workers assigned to specific projects
- Ability to perform strenuous physical activities in all kinds of weather
- Must possess a valid MA pesticide applicators license and a 2B hoisting license
- High School graduate with a minimum of 3 continuous years of relevant experience
- Heavy work - Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently and/or in excess of 20 pounds constantly to lift, carry push, pull or otherwise move objects
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds 100lb walk-behind mower up curbs
Groundskeeper Job Description
- Decorate indoor or outdoor spaces
- Install rock gardens, ponds, decks, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, or playground equipment
- Haul or spread topsoil or spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place
- Receive training in pesticide safety
- Able to accept flexible working hours and shifts being available in an on-call basis for emergency responses
- Assist with basic plumbing repairs to storm and area drains, irrigation systems, rain conductors
- Paint and perform preventive maintenance and minor repairs to outdoor equipment, irrigation systems, furniture, outdoor structures
- Participate in signage maintenance including installations, upgrades, cleansing
- Participate in safety programs as directed
- Maintains all related grounds keeping equipment including mowers, weed eaters, rakes, snow removal equipment, and
- One (1) to three (3) months related experience and/or training in a janitorial or groundskeeper capacity
- Require current driver’s license
- Ideal Candidate will have valid driver’s license to operate a golf cart on property
- One year of work experience as a groundskeeper
- Ability to stand, walk, for extended periods also, bend, stoop, kneel, lift, shovel, required
- Ability to transport heavy plants, bushes, shrubs, machinery
Groundskeeper Job Description
- Physically demanding manual labor consisting of lawn, flower and shrub care
- Digging, spraying, edging and power tool operation
- Other duties as assigned, including building or property maintenance support as needed
- Be available to work during emergency situations snow or storms
- Knowledge of occupational and safety hazards in the trade and PPE & processes to prevent accidents
- Conduct mowing operations with appropriate mowers
- Perform general maintenance and cleaning of campus through raking, grading, excavating, and hand-weeding beds
- Candidate will be responsible for removing rubbish, soil, and leaves from grounds
- Water and prune or remove plants, trees, and shrubs
- Ensure equipment is kept in operating order
- Assist with the repair of any irrigation breaks, leaks, valve problems, or irrigation head situations
- Previous grounds keeping experience required
- Ability to work in an environment where there is high exposure to dust, pollens
- Previous 1 year grounds keeping experience preferred
- Successful completion of a C.O.R.I
- Grounds/landscaping experience preferred