Landscape Maintenance Technician II

Mission Landscape Companies, Inc; Riverside (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Landscape Svc. Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Technician II to maintain landscapes across various properties, including mowing turf, trimming plants, and basic care of garden equipment.

The technician will monitor safety and report hazards to supervision. This role may involve non-routine tasks and adaptive application of procedures with minimal supervision. The position requires following oral and written directions, operating mowing and trimming equipment, and a thorough knowledge of

Qualifications

• Experience with hand tools used in landscape maintenance.
• Ability to operate mowing/trimming equipment safely.
• Knowledge of pruning shrubs and trees.
• Ability to identify common pests and plant diseases.

Responsibilities

• Mowing lawns and turf areas.
• Trimming plants.
• Removing weeds.
• Cleaning.
• Basic care of garden equipment.
• Riding in company vehicle to job sites.
• Maintaining a constant watch for safety problems.
• Notifying supervisor of unsafe conditions or practices observed.

Skills

Hand tools

Mowing equipment operation

Pruning shrubs & trees

Pest & disease recognition

Education

One year related experience or training

Job description

JOB TITLE: MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN II

EXEMPT: NO

REPORTS TO: Supervisor

JOB SUMMARY:

The Landscape Maintenance Technician II will be responsible for maintaining the landscape and grounds of industrial, commercial, residential, retail or public properties. This includes mowing turf areas, trimming plants, and basic care of garden equipment. The Landscape Maintenance Technician II will also maintain a constant watch for safety problems and notify their supervisor immediately of any unsafe working conditions or practices observed in the work area.

Level II: Applies skills and job knowledge in area of specialization; may adapt procedures, operations, techniques, tools, materials, and/or equipment to meet needs of landscape maintenance; may work on non-routine tasks; resolves issues-makes working decisions within area of specialization or responsibility with minimal supervision.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Mowing lawns and turf areas
• Trimming plants
• Removing Weeds
• Cleaning
• Basic care of garden equipment
• Riding in company vehicle to job sites
• Maintaining a constant watch for safety problems
• Notifying supervisor immediately of unsafe working conditions or practices observed in the work area

Additional Responsibilities:

• Performing basic pruning skills as necessary
• Using various hand tools to perform maintenance tasks
• Following oral directions to successfully perform job duties
• Reading a limited number of two and three-syllable words and recognizing similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers
• Printing and speaking simple sentences
• Adding and subtracting two-digit numbers and multiplying and dividing with 10's and 100's
• Applying common sense understanding to carry out detailed oral and written instructions
• Dealing with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and ability to use various hand tools
• Able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily
• Ability to follow oral and written direction
• Able to correctly operate mechanical equipment required for mowing, trimming, and cleaning
• Thorough knowledge of shrub and tree pruning
• Ability to recognize common pests and decease

Education and/or Experience:

• One year related experience and or training, equivalent combination of education experience

Physical Demands:

• Standing, walking, using hands to fingers, handling, or feeling objects, tools or controls
• Frequently reaching with hands and arms and stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling
• Occasionally sitting and climbing or balancing
• Regularly lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds, frequently lifting or moving up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lifting or moving up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Work Environment:

• Working in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions
• Frequently working near sharp mechanical parts
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic, or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock
• Loud noise level in the work environment
• Follow company core values; Safety, Teamwork, Integrity, Quality, & Service

Employee's will receive regular pay for selected holidays, must work the day before and the day after the holiday in order to receive pay.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and correctly.