Enhancement Installation Landscape Laborer
BrightView
Homestead, FL
JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Homestead, FL
POSTED
30+ days ago
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Job Summary
+ The Enhancement Laborer executes small scale landscaping operations and maintains grounds and landscape of commercial properties.
Duties and Responsibilities:
+ 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.
Education and Experience:
+ 6 months of commercial landscape experience preferred but not required.
+ Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration.
+ Current driver license
+ Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finish cement surfaces, prepare forms for cement pours, and weeding.
+ Experience 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.
Physical Demands/Requirements:
+ 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 30-35 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 of 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 leaves, branches, trimming, mowing, digging trenches, setting forms, and planting.
Work Environment:
+ Work outdoors in moderate to extreme heat in dry/humid near automotive traffic, natural bodies of water, fumes, dust, mechanical/electrical hazards, and direct sunlight.
+ Requires protective clothing and personal devices: Eye protection, safety vest, gloves, hard hat, ear plugs, long sleeved shirts, and work boots.
_BrightView Landscapes, LLC is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer._
_This job description is subject to change at any time._
_BrightView offers a suite or health, wellness, and financial benefits to full-time team members. Benefits offerings for full-time team members include medical, dental, and vision insurance, ancillary and voluntary products, a 401k savings plan with employer contributions, and 6 to 9 company paid holidays per year. Employees may also be eligible to receive paid time off for vacation and/or sick leave, tuition reimbursement, and/or potential variable pay opportunities based on position and performance. A detailed benefits package will be provided during the interview process_ _._
_It’s Not Just a Team. It’s One BrightView._
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