Golf Course Maintenance

About the role

Department / Division: Golf Course Maintenance / Operations
Status: Regular, Full-time
Reports to: Assistant Golf Course Superintendent

Responsibilities

• Prepare and playability of all courses, the driving range, and clubhouse grounds daily for guest and member play.
• Mow greens, tees, fairways, collars, roughs, edging, raking, and smoothing bunkers.
• Complete grass trimming around all trees, cart paths, hazards, or other objects, rotating tee markers, cup changing, and maintenance of ball washers.
• Pick-up trash, remove limbs, straw, or other debris, and safely operate a chainsaw.
• Clean and maintain drains and ditches.
• Repair, maintain, and paint all structures and golf course accessories.
• Maintain bunker conditions, including debris removal, raking, and edging.
• Maintain tee markers for daily play.
• Operate light handheld machinery, including weed eaters, backpack blowers, and cart path edgers, to maintain cart paths, lake banks, yardage blocks, etc.
• Operate fairway mower to maintain soccer field and fairways, greens mower to maintain golf course greens and tees for daily play.
• Operate Lastec mower to maintain primary roughs and grounds master to keep secondary roughs.
• Operate sweeper to maintain high-traffic areas such as clubhouse grounds and cart retrieval.
• Operate tractor and implements; blower, bush hog, etc.
• Operate club car with buffalo blower to remove debris from the golf course and drag mat to spread clippings.
• Maintain signs, ropes & stakes, bollards, timbers, and ball washers to ensure a positive golf guest experience.
• Perform general golf course maintenance, fill divots, and repair damaged turf.
• Aid in drainage installation and maintenance, removing and replacing sod, and cart path repair.
• Perform general housekeeping of maintenance shop and storage areas.
• Perform general preventative equipment maintenance, such as grease, oil, gas, etc.
• Able to perform verticut greens and roll greens.
• Aid Turf and Irrigation managers with the seeding of greens and tees.
• Perform all other job-related duties as arise and directed.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one (1) year of relevant golf course, landscape, etc., experience in Golf Course Maintenance I
• Minimum of two (2) years of relevant golf course, landscape, etc., experience in Golf Course Maintenance II
• Must be at least 18 years old
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Must be self-motivated and reliable
• Must be available on rotating weekends and holidays
• Experience with Toro machinery preferred
• Willingness to learn unfamiliar but essential job functions
• Ability to work within a team

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions

• Exert up to 75 pounds of force occasionally, up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and up to 20 pounds constantly to move objects.
• Between 25% and 50% of the typical workday will be spent stooping and crouching, standing, sitting, walking, pushing, pulling, and lifting.
• Less than 25% of the typical workday will be spent climbing, balancing, and crawling.
• Visual abilities to perform tasks required of operating machines close up and distant.
• Sensory abilities require vision, hearing, and touching, with more than 50% of the day spent communicating, talking, and hearing.
• Will be exposed to hazards such as moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, exposure to chemicals, and subject to vibration.
• May be exposed to atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dust, mists, or poor ventilation.
• Noisy environment.