Full-Time Landscape Maintenance Technician

Cherry Lake Tree Farm, Inc.; Florida; On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

CHERRYLAKE, INC. is seeking a year-round, full-time grounds worker to maintain property grounds using hand or power tools and equipment.

Responsibilities include mowing, trimming, planting, watering, digging, and installation of trees, shrubs, and flowers; work performed outdoors in varied weather. The role requires experience in landscape maintenance, ability to operate mowers and related equipment, and physical stamina for outdoor work in changing conditions.

Qualifications

• 3 months or more prior experience in landscape maintenance or installation.
• High school or higher level education preferred.
• Must be dependable and hard working.
• Able to work in ever changing weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Perform grounds keeping and building maintenance duties.
• Operate powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, blowers, edgers, weed eaters, and pruning saws.
• Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.
• Maintain and care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks or walls.
• Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.
• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
• Gather or remove litter.
• Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses or watering cans.
• Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.
• Rake, mulch and compost leaves.
• Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools.
• Sweep walkways of debris.
• Perform minor repairs and maintenance procedures on equipment utilized in grounds keeping.
• All other duties assigned for landscape maintenance

Skills

Dependable

Hardworking

Weather adaptability

Education

High school or equivalent

Job description

CHERRYLAKE, INC. is seeking a year-round, full-time grounds worker to maintain property grounds using hand or power tools and equipment.

Responsibilities include mowing, trimming, planting, watering, digging, and installation of trees, shrubs, and flowers; work performed outdoors in varied weather. The role requires experience in landscape maintenance, ability to operate mowers and related equipment, and physical stamina for outdoor work in changing conditions.