GROUNDS MAINTENANCE LABORER

MedStar Health; Seal Beach (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Grounds Maintenance Laborer, responsible for maintaining the property’s appearance and functionality. This role includes tasks like lawn care, minor repairs, and ensuring safety standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in grounds maintenance and a strong dedication to teamwork in an outdoor setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 months work experience in grounds maintenance.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate proficiently in English.

Responsibilities

• Maintain interior and exterior of buildings, grounds and roadways.
• Perform minor repairs of structures and equipment.
• Cut grass and trim hedges around walkways and beds.

Skills

Ability to identify and work safely with tools

Customer service skills

Education

High School graduate or equivalent

Job description

About Us

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields - each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences - then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Job Overview

The Grounds Maintenance Laborer is responsible for maintaining the interior and exterior of buildings, grounds and roadways. The Laborer is also responsible for performing minor repairs of structures and equipment.

Work Model: Onsite

Responsibilities

Essential Duties & Job Functions:

• Cut grass using walk-behind or riding mowers (less than 2,000 lbs).
• Trim hedges/edges around walkways, flower beds, and walls using hedge trimmers, clippers, and edging tools.
• Clean walks, drives and parking areas by means of a landscape blower or vacuum.
• Prune shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth using shears and other hand tools.
• Spray lawns, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer, herbicide, and/or insecticide.
• Plant grass, trees, flowers, and shrubs.
• Water lawns and shrubs.
• Perform litter and debris clean-up.
• Weed plant and ornamental landscape beds.
• Repair and paints fences, gates, benches, buildings, and equipment.
• May clean comfort stations, office and workshop areas, residential units, or parking areas by sweeping, washing, mopping, and polishing.
• May be assigned to assist with spill response team.
• Load and unload trucks and other conveyances
• Move supplies and materials to proper location by wheelbarrows or hand trucks.
• Collect refuse and salvageable materials.
• Dig, fill, and tamp earth excavations.
• Level ground using pick, shovel, tamper, and rake.
• Clean culverts and ditches.
• Cut trees, and brush.
• Operate power tools such as chain saws, lawnmowers, weed eaters, edgers, blowers.
• Wash, wax, vacuum, and polish vehicles/equipment.
• Move heavy pieces of machinery and equipment.
• Pick up leaves and trash.
• Accountable for meeting safety performance standards and completing all work safely.
• Responsible for the timely reporting of accidents, injuries, "near miss" and hazardous situations.
• Responsible for minor routine maintenance to equipment use in their daily functions.
• May perform additional duties as assigned by supervisor.

Accountable For:

• Managing and accurately tracking material resources and time and adapt to changing work priorities.
• Tools and equipment within his or her possession.
• Using PPE when required.
• Daily cleaning of assigned workspaces.
• Timely, cost-effective performance of duties with the ability to be flexible due to change of schedule, work duration and tasks.
• Working closely and harmoniously with fellow workers.
• Adherence to all Safety and Health rules and regulations.

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

• Minimum or 6 months work experience in grounds maintenance with knowledge of ground maintenance standards, techniques and materials.
• Ability to identify and work safely with appropriate manual and power tools, mechanical and electrical equipment, to the task assigned.
• Capable of understanding and following directions from lead/supervisor.
• Capable of passing a background check for base access as required by the contract.
• Must be able to comprehend, read, speak and write proficiently in the English language.
• Communicate and work collaboratively and professionally on a team with various skill levels, and of various diverse backgrounds, and demonstrate good customer services skills.

Preferred:

• Possess a valid State issued Driver's License.
• High School graduate or equivalent.

Working Conditions:

• Must be capable of standing and walking for long periods of time while working outdoors.
• Work hours are subject to change, with overtime work as needed.
• Subject to hazards that may cause personal bodily harm; diseases, cuts, bruises, burns, common colds, influenza, dust odors and elevated noise levels.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand and/or walk for long periods at a time, sit, use of hands and fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, climb ladders, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear, or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 70-100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision.

Reasonable Accommodation:
CGS will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any of its subsidiaries, please email [e-mail].

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Chugach is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.