Landscape General Laborer

3405 7th Avenue, Suite102 near 35th street and 7th Avenue, Cedar Rapids IA

Description

Summary/Objective Responsible for the cultivation and care of the landscaping and grounds surrounding a business or building. Plants flowers, mows, pulls weeds, repairs structures, and maintains outside of building. Essential Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • Hard Scape Projects. • Soft Scape Projects. • Retaining wall installations. • Landscape lighting. • New Construction landscaping and curb appeal. • Finish Grade and laying sod. • Perform grounds-keeping and building maintenance duties. • Mow lawn either by hand or using a riding lawnmower. • Cut lawn using hand, power or riding mower and trim and edge around walks, flower beds, and walls. • Landscape by planting flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes. • Apply pesticide to rid grounds of pests such as mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, and others. • Apply fertilizer to ground to enhance growth. • Shovel snow from walkways and sprinkle ice-melt/sand down to keep people from falling. • Perform routine maintenance duties such as applying plaster, fixing fountains, and other duties. • Sweep walkway of debris. • Cut down tree limbs that are posing a danger. • Trim shrubs and pull weeds. • Perform minor repairs and maintenance procedures on equipment utilized in grounds-keeping. • Install lawn furniture. • Rake, mulch, and prune the grounds as needed. • Install rock, cement, lighting, water, and furniture. • Water plants and grass as needed and apply fertilizer. • Unloads materials from vendors’ delivery trucks at storage area, checks accuracy of delivery ticket and signs receipt for materials. Reports discrepancies to supervisor. • Equipment cleanliness and maintenance. • Other duties as assigned. See full job description when interview.