Grounds Equipment Operator

Job Summary

The Grounds Equipment Operator is responsible for maintaining landscape and hardscape by operating commercial landscaping equipment.

Achieves daily work objectives

• Operates commercial landscaping equipment such as large mowers, backhoes and bobcats
• Developing, constructing, repairing and maintaining landscape and hardscape projects

Maintains tools and equipment

• Completes preventive maintenance requirements
• Follows manufacturer’s instructions
• Troubleshoots malfunctions
• Calls for repairs
• Maintains equipment inventories
• Evaluates new equipment and techniques

Maintains supplies inventory

• Checks stock to determine inventory level
• Anticipates needed supplies
• Placing and expediting orders for supplies
• Verifying receipt of supplies

Safety compliance

• Complies with federal, state and local building codes
• Advising management on needed actions

Work environment

• Maintains a safe and clean environment
• Complies with procedures, rules and regulations

Team leadership

• Serves as functional lead for commercial landscaping equipment

Other duties

• Serves as functional lead for commercial landscaping equipment
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Required Education & Experience

• Some formal education
• 3 years of experience in the care of plants, trees, and lawns, including knowledge of operations and repair of ground equipment

Preferred Education & Experience

• None

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of specialized landscaping techniques
• Knowledge of safety regulations
• Knowledge of basic arithmetic functions
• Knowledge of customer service techniques
• Skills in operating and repairing commercial landscaping equipment such as large mowers, backhoes and bobcats
• Ability to communicate technical information verbally

Physical Requirements

• Visual acuity to read information from computer screens, forms and other printed materials and information
• Able to speak (enunciate) clearly in conversation and general communication
• Hearing ability for verbal communication/conversation/responses via telephone, telephone systems, and face-to-face interactions
• Manual dexterity for typing, writing, standing and reaching, flexibility, body movement for bending, crouching, walking, kneeling, climbing ladders and stairs, and prolonged sitting
• Lifting and moving objects and equipment up to 50 lbs

Work Environment

• Outdoors under variable weather conditions that can, at times, be extreme (high temperature and humidity levels, as well as freezing & icy water)
• This position is not sedentary and is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours
• May be exposed to automotive fluids while conducting operator maintenance actions
• May be exposed to chemical fertilizers