Grounds Staff

Job Summary: The Grounds Staff are key members of the course maintenance team and is responsible for the landscaping and maintenance around the golf course. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Maintains clean and organized works areas on the golf course and maintenance facility • Mows greens, aprons, fairways, roughs, tees, and other areas • Waters tees, greens and fairways; operates irrigation heads in dry areas needing additional water • Repairs the irrigation system, pipes and irrigation heads as needed • Grades and prepares soil base, lays sod and seeds greens, tees and fairways • Trims and prunes hedges and shrubbery; cleans flower beds • Applies pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers to the golf course • Perform other duties as assigned Qualifications, Experience and Skill Requirements: • Must possess the ability design, coordinate, and maintain landscaping on the golf course • Must possess the ability to create spray programs for the golf course including greens, tees, fairways, roughs, and landscaping • Must possess the ability to operate all tools and equipment related to golf course operations • Ability to give oral and written instructions • Skilled in seeding, fertilizing, mulching, and general ground preparation for restoration and renovation • Must be dependable Working Condition: • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. • The employee is often required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls. • They will occasionally be required to balance, stoop, twist upper body, kneel, and climb. • The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 30lbs occasionally. • Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, and depth perception. • Moderate exposure to extreme cold, heat, working outdoors, chemicals, pesticides, gasoline, vibration, pollen, dust, mechanical hazards and electrical hazards. • Noise level is typically loud • Work extended hours during golf and holiday season • Work weekends and holidays