Enhancement/Construction Crew Member (Shamong)

Description

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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.

Compensation Pay Range:

$18-$23/hour depending on experience

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.