(NGIS OCEANA) GROUNDSKEEPER / MAINTENANCE WORKER

Navy Exchange; Virginia Beach (VA); In loco; USD 25.000 - 35.000; Part-time

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NGIS Oceana is seeking a part-time Groundskeeper/Maintenance Worker at Virginia Beach to perform seasonal gardening and grounds maintenance, following project plans and weather considerations.

Duties include planting, transplanting, mulching, pruning, trimming trees and shrubs, inspecting for diseases and pests, applying fungicides and herbicides, and operating hand and power garden tools. Schedule is 20-34.5 hours per week.

Competenze

• One year of gardening and grounds maintenance experience.
• Experience selecting methods for planting, transplanting, seeding, mulching, spraying, and trimming.

Mansioni

• Decides methods for planting, transplanting, seeding, sodding, mulching, and pruning.
• Inspects plants for diseases and pests.
• Operates garden tools and equipment.
• Maintains cleanliness of NHG facilities and grounds.
• Reports issues to supervisor.

Conoscenze

Grounds maintenance

Gardening

Plant inspection

Formazione

High school diploma or GED

Strumenti

Seeders

Spreaders

Edger

Hedge trimmers

Pruning shears

Sprayers

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(NGIS OCEANA) GROUNDSKEEPER / MAINTENANCE WORKER

Job Number:

260003R2

Primary Location

: United States-Virginia-Virginia Beach

Organization

: NGIS Oceana Pay Range: $21.91 BASED ON EXPERIENCE

Job Summary:

Performs a variety of seasonal gardening and grounds maintenance work considering the seasonal schedules or project plans for the NEXCOM Hospitality Group NHG property suitability of the weather degree of moisture in the soil and stage of plant growth.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Decides when and which standard methods to use in planting transplanting seeding re-sodding mulching dusting spraying watering cultivating cutting arranging pruning and trimming trees shrubs flowers and grass.
• Inspects for plant diseases molds brown spots rusts blight mildew plant insects leaf miner scales borers slugs and unusual or poor plant growth.
• Selects and uses fungicides insecticides and herbicides for the control of diseases insects and weeds.
• Determines when plants need additional watering and how long they should be watered.
• Observes plants and thins or transplants when they have grown too close together or too large for their locations.
• Decides when shrubs have reached the proper stage of growth for trimming and when trees need pruning to remove obviously diseased limbs or excess branches.
• Compute quantities of plants seeds and other materials needed for specific areas.
• Starts new plants in seedbeds or cold frames.
• May also reproduce plants through cuttings rooting grafting and layering.
• Operates a variety of hand and power operated garden tools and equipment such as seeders spreaders edger hedge trimmers pruning shears and sprayers.
• Picks up trash and vacuums parking lots and sidewalks daily.
• Reports to supervisor or security personnel acts of vandalism and or damage to NHG facilities. Performs other related duties as assigned

GENERAL EXPERIENCE

One year of experience performing gardening and grounds maintenance work.

SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE

One year of high school education may be substituted for 3 months of general experience up to a High School Diploma or GED for one year of general experience. AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE One year of gardening experience that included responsibility of determining when and what standard methods to use in planting transplanting seeding sodding mulching dusting spraying watering cultivating cutting arranging pruning and trimming trees shrubs flowers and grass etc.

Schedule

: Part-time (20-34.5 hours)

Unposting Date

: Nov 3, 2026, 4:59:00 AM