Golf Course Maintenance

Full-time Description Job Summary: The Golf Course Maintenance / Operators will perform landscaping and related services required to maintain safe and attractive grounds. Duties/Responsibilities: • Maintains cups, tees, fairways, rough, ball washers and related facilities Cleans and rakes bunkers. • Operates a variety of small power equipment such as chainsaws, buffers, grinders, drills, solder guns, compressors, tapping machines, and other similar tools used in golf maintenance, construction, and repair work; performs minor mechanical repairs on such equipment. • Operates equipment and other vehicles such as golf course tractors with a frontend loader attached, backhoe, trailered equipment, mowers, aerifiers, or other similar machines. • Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines; shores excavations; install and maintain irrigation pipe. • Trims, prunes, and spray trees and vegetation. • Plans and cultivates lawns, turf, or gardens and, based on designs, determines further work that should occur. • Delivers and spreads topsoil and/or straw over newly seeded areas. • Prepares chemicals as needed for application by mixing according to directions. • Manufactures tee mat pads by construction forms, pouring, and finishing cement. Lays small asphalt, patches holes in roadways, cart paths around the facility. • Where artificial turf is used, periodically replaces cushion pads; vacuums, and disinfects turf after use. • Performs regular and seasonal maintenance on irrigation systems including any necessary winterizing procedures. • Installs and maintains landscape work such as landscape timbers, flower beds, raking, digging, tree planting, pruning bushes. • Performs other related duties as assigned. Required Skills/Abilities: • Good verbal communication skills. • Basic understanding of grounds keeping and landscaping practices and procedures. • Ability to work efficiently and thoroughly. • Ability to follow directions. • Thorough understanding of how to care for various types of lawns, greenery, and plants. • Ability to operate various types of power equipment including lawnmowers, trimmers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, and other landscaping equipment. • Ability to use hand tools required for maintaining grounds. • Ability to follow instructions and complete assignments. Requirements • Prolonged periods standing, walking, stretching, bending, climbing ladders, kneeling, and pulling. • Must be able to lift 50+ pounds at a time. • Must be physically able to operate power equipment. • Must be able to work holidays and weekends. • Must be able to work in a variety of weather conditions.