Cemetery Grounds Crew
3 weeks ago
The Grounds Crew position is responsible for working with other full-time and seasonal staff to perform all aspects of garden and grounds maintenance throughout the cemetery.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform all tasks related to the maintenance of flower and shrub beds throughout the property including: preparing, planting, watering, fertilizing, and weeding beds as required/ necessary.
- Perform all aspects of general grounds maintenance including: grass cutting, string trimming, debris removal, gardening, pruning, and other related tasks.
- Assist with the setting, maintenance, and installation of memorials and foundations.
- Assist with interment duties.
- Perform all aspects of cemetery lot maintenance including: sodding, seeding, top-dressing, and leveling low areas.
- Clean and maintain tools and equipment.
- Some administrative duties including: answering phones, paperwork, and other administrative projects.
- Perform other duties as required
Equipment Used:
- Hand Tools and equipment, including but not limited to: assorted shovels, rakes, pry-bars, hammers, screw drivers, and other similar and/or related equipment.
- Hand held power tools including: drills, circular saws, string trimmers, leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, water pumps and other similar and/or related equipment.
- Commercial ride on lawn maintenance and landscaping equipment including: tractors, zero turn mowers, and related equipment such as dump or utility trailers.
Physical Requirements:
- Working outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Prolonged periods of siting on equipment driven over rough terrain is expected.
- Prolonged periods of bending, walking, kneeling, stooping, and other related motions are expected.
- Lifting of cemetery products and landscaping materials and/or related tools and equipment such as: sod, soil, bricks, memorials, grave dressing lowering devices and/or other similar/related is expected.
**Education**:
- Current post-secondary education will be considered an asset
Work experience:
- Prior work related to grounds maintenance or gardening will be considered an asset
**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Seasonal
Contract length: 8 months
**Salary**: From $16.55 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Supplemental pay types:
- Overtime pay
**Experience**:
- Groundskeepers & Greenskeepers: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 2024-05-01