Job Duties and Responsibilities
Lawn season (Spring thru Fall):
- Coordinate landscaping schedules, plans, and tasks for all Gritman properties
- Run mowers, trimmers, blowers, and other equipment
- Safely drive trucks with trailers; load, secure, and back trailers into driveways
- Handle weekly landscaping to a clear standard
- Mowing, edging and fertilizing lawns
- Weeding and mulching landscape beds
- Trimming small trees below 15', hedges and shrubs
- Removing unwanted, dead or damaged trees
- Planting shrubs, flowers and trees
- Watering gardens, lawns and landscapes
- Monitoring and maintaining plant health
- Ensuring that areas are both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
- Use a smartphone app for schedules, job notes, and photos
- Do basic equipment checks and keep trucks/ATV/trailers clean, repaired and organized
- Maintaining and repairing irrigation systems including sprinklers, drip lines, and valves
- Seasonal blow out and start-up of all the irrigation systems.
Snow season (Winter):
- Coordinate Snow Removal schedules, plans, and tasks for all Gritman properties
- Operate plow trucks and related snow equipment during storms
- Clear driveways and parking lots, apply salt/ice melt as needed
- Work on call during snow events (days/nights/weekends as weather dictates)
- Log work and photos in our app and stay in touch during changing conditions
Job Requirements
Required Education, Licenses and Work Experience
- High school or equivalent (Required)
- Landscaping/grounds services: 2+ years (Required)
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications
- Operating in a comfortable and safe manner with trucks and trailers (or strong experience with larger vehicles/equipment)
- Smartphone (we use an employee portal for scheduling, photos, and communication)
- Experience in lawn care, landscaping, snow, construction, or equipment operation preferred
- Willing and able to be on call for winter storms (nights/weekends as needed)
- Must know how to operate lawn maintenance equipment, such as lawnmowers, string trimmers, leaf blowers, and hedge trimmers
- Chemical Applicator's License Preferred
Functional Demands
Population Served
- Hospital & Clinical staff, patients, visitors, and vendors.
Physical & Environmental Demands
- Able to lift 50+ lbs
- Work in all weather conditions (heat, rain, cold, snow)
- Physical and mental endurance required for availability during the four seasons, including traveling to sites and being outside in winter and summer weather conditions performing physical tasks.
- The ability to sit, stand, bend, reach, push, pull, ascend/descend stairs, and walk for various lengths of time during business hours.
- Subject to temperature extremes both interior and exterior.
- Environmental hazards exist with temperatures, chemicals, and power equipment.
Organizational Expectations
- Participate in ongoing quality improvement activities.
- Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet environment.
- Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization.
- Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential information.
- Promotes a culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention.
- Demonstrates excellent customer service through their attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in The Gritman Way.
- Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in related scope of practice or job role.
- Maintains compliance with organization's policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of