Greenskeeper - Landscape - Irrigation & Spray Techs

Summary of Position(s): Under the direction of the Golf Course Superintendent, perform ground maintenance duties including maintaining greens, tees, fairways, vegetation and landscaped areas. Essential Functions: • Prepare and maintain golf course • Prepare and plant sod, trees, shrubs, and flowers • Clean and perform routine maintenance on ground maintenance equipment and tools • Maintain turf by aerification, slicing, and topdressing • Perform a variety of general grounds keeping duties including raking, weeding, trimming trees, and fertilizing • Operate and maintain a variety of grounds maintenance equipment and tools including riding and push mowers, weedeaters , blowers, edgers, trimmers, tractors, overseeders, rototillers, sod cutter, woodchipper, hand and power tools, and other ground maintenance tools and equipment Qualifications: Education: High School Diploma or equivalent preferred. Experience: 2 years of golf course maintenance preferred Spray Tech Certificates or Licenses: Arizona State Pesticide Applicator License Irrigation: Experience with Rainbird and/or Toro heads/computer system Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: • Perform a variety of grounds maintenance work in the preparation and maintenance of turf • Understand and follow oral and written directions • Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with fellow co-workers • Utilize herbicides, pesticides, and other sprays in a safe and effective manner • Perform heavy manual labor • Lift objects weighing up to 80 pounds • Work in a desert environment • Basic irrigation knowledge Personal Characteristics: • Behaves ethically • Communicates effectively: Speaks and listens in a clear, thorough, and timely manner. Company DescriptionArizona Traditions Golf Club is located in Surprise, AZ and is a public, 18 hole golf facility with a neighboring 18 hole sister course