As a vital role in the Grounds Maintenance Team, a Gardner performs routine tasks of garden, nursery, greenhouse, and grounds maintenance using hand and small power tools. Also, carries out assigned projects such as propagation and development of new areas.

Position Responsibilities

• Works on a truck; loads and unloads materials
• Excavates and backfills ditches and trenches with hand tools
• Cuts weeds and brush, operates portable equipment, acts as a groundsman for tree-trimmers, removing, cutting up, and loading limbs
• Collects and empties litter cans, cleans gutters, drains, and culverts, installs barricades; does janitorial work in cleaning and maintaining a building
• May drive a light truck or operate moving equipment occasionally
• Propagates plant material for the golf course and grounds from seeds or existing plants in the nursery on the golf course
• Utilizes the groundsmen to assist in completing projects
• Performs cultural practices in the greenhouse and lath house in relation to insect identification and control, spacing of plant material, adjusting light requirements, weeding, watering, and fertilizing
• Other duties as assigned