Grounds Maintenance and Gardner

**_JOB DESCRIPTION _**
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**TITLE**: **Grounds Maintenance - Gardener (seasonal)**:

- _DEPARTMENT: Maintenance
**REPORTS TO: Maintenance Manager**

**Summary of Position**
Responsible for maintaining the grounds of both the resort and cottages as per resort standards.
Specializing in the placement and upkeep of the gardens at Bayview Wildwood Resort and The
Cottages at Port Stanton.

**Key Relationships**:

- Internally: _Provide all essential information to department heads and employees.
- Externally: _Continuous contact with employees, suppliers, deliveries, requiring excellent communication skills.

**Qualifications**:

- Note: _The following qualification requirements are only representative of minimum levels of education, knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

**Education**
Essential: 1. Ability to communicate and comprehend both orally and written in English with employees and customers.
Desirable: 1. Valid Drivers License and ability to be Insured by Employer
2. Pursuing or completed a High School Diploma or Vocational equivalent.

**Knowledge**
Essential: 1. A minimum of 6 months experience maintaining lawns, gardens and using lawn equipment.

Desirable: 2. Previous experience/ employment in outdoor property management, waste removal, gardening and grounds care/upkeep.
**Skills & Abilities**
Essential: 1. Excellent communication skills in order to maintain an exceptional rapport with employees, suppliers and inspectors.
2. Self starter and ability to work independently.

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3. Ability to work cooperatively with managers and employees as part of a team.

4 Ability to maintain confidentiality of pertinent data.
**Mental Effort required to perform the job**:

- Hand and eye coordination to use materials, machines and tools.
- Frequent attention required to the overall grounds conditions in order to assess and decide on a coarse of action to improve the look and/or functionality of property, buildings and equipment.

**Physical Effort required to perform the job**:

- Lifting materials up 25kg
- Extensive walking, standing, crouching
- Extensive use of small engines (lawn mowers, trimmers, tractors,)
- Bending to pick up materials, debris
- Use of manual tools, shovel, rake and hammer.
- Required to use a ladder up to 15 feet from the ground.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

1 Maintain a positive working relationship with team members and management as part of a team.

2. Maintain complete knowledge of and comply with company and departmental policies and procedures.

3. Maintain related knowledge of fire and health & safety policies & procedures.

4. Maintain company knowledge within the maintenance function by attending training workshops and meetings as needed.

5. Maintain client and company confidence by keeping information confidential.

6. Responsible for always providing excellent customer service and professional communication with guests, visitors, and employees at all times.

7. Ensure that all guests and visitors are greeted as per the company standard greeting at all times.

8. Responsible for maintaining the lawn and gardens on a regular basis.

9. Responsible for removing the garbage by truck from various locations at the resort to the disposal bins.

10. Maintain the grounds of the resort and cottages as per resort standards i.e. remove debris, garbage, leaves, weeds from beaches, rake beaches, repair equipment

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11 Perform minor landscaping work i.e. cut grass, rake, fertilize and water lawns, weed gardens, prune trees and shrubs.

**Meetings**
Responsible to attend department meetings as required with the Maintenance Manager.

**Accountability while performing the job**:

- Responsible for ensuring that work is performed with the proper techniques and equipment in order to ensure a safe environment for both the guests and employees.

**WORKING CONDITIONS while performing the job**:

- Required to work outdoors therefore climate will vary requiring appropriate attire, sun block, steel toed safety boots, gloves & Rain Coat
- Use of chemicals such as chlorine, paints, varsoil
- WHMIS training a necessity

Note:

- A review of this description has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and requirements are essential job functions.
- This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship
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