Seasonal Maintenance Worker-Golf

About the role

The Seasonal Maintenance Worker-Golf position at Fossil Trace Golf Club is responsible for performing all routine golf course maintenance duties, troubleshooting, and maintaining the overall presentation of the golf course. This includes mowing, edging, aerating, fertilizing, and installing landscaping elements. Additionally, this position supports all aspects of golf course maintenance operations, including grounds maintenance, facility construction, janitorial support, equipment operation, and special event support.

Responsibilities

• Studies golf course presentation on a daily basis to ensure that bunkers are raked, tee markers are set, cups are properly cut, etc.
• Operates maintenance equipment to maintain golf course landscaping, including mowers, tractors, utility vehicles, aerifiers, and various hand tools and implements.
• Mows golf course greens daily covering up to four miles while pushing mower.
• Mows, edges, aerates, and fertilizes greens and fairways.
• Applies fertilizers as necessary and documents products applied and rates of application.
• Plants and maintains trees, shrubs, perennial beds, flower beds, and native plants.
• Troubleshoots, maintains, and repairs irrigation systems.
• Landscape Construction - soil preparation, fine grading, sod/seed installation, shrubs, perennial and flower bed installation.
• Responsible for repair and maintenance of restrooms, shelters, fences, and concrete work.
• Responsible for trash collection and removal on course, cart paths, drainage systems, and open space.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 16 years of age by date of hire.
• High school diploma or general education diploma (GED) preferred.
• Six months experience in turf/parks maintenance preferred.
• Experience in landscape and construction highly desired.

Skills and Abilities

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers, citizens, and others verbally and in writing.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to complete time sheets.

Reasoning Abilities

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to make independent decisions.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to push/pull mowers and hoses, dig; rake; hammer; saw; drill; shovel.
• Frequent standing, walking, kneeling, climbing, and bending.
• Must have ability to frequently lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift up to 100 pounds with assistance as needed.
• Ability to hear telephone conversations and audible signals from equipment, such as the two-way radio system.
• Must be able to respond to inquiries in person and by telephone.
• Ability to see up close, peripherally, and at a distance to perform the requirements of the job.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions including grasses, weeds, cold, high heat, rain etc.
• Primarily outside on golf course and in native foothills setting.
• Use of personal protective equipment as required.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The City of Golden is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Part-Time and Seasonal employees may be eligible for some benefits as they relate to the position and department in which they work. Part-Time and Seasonal employees are also eligible to accrue 1 hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. For more detailed information please refer to the Employee Benefits & Perks section of our website.

Application Instructions

Please answer the following questions to proceed with your application:

• Will you be at least 16 years of age by date of hire?
• Do you have a high school diploma or general education diploma (GED)?
• Do you have at least 6 months experience in turf/parks maintenance?
• Do you have experience working in landscaping?
• The hiring rate for this position is $20.17-$21.00 per hour. Are you comfortable with this rate of pay?
• Work schedule hours include early mornings and every other weekend. Are you able to work this schedule?
• This position requires exposure to outside weather conditions including grasses, weeds, cold, high heat, rain etc. Are you able to work in these conditions?
• This is a physically demanding position. You need the ability to lift 50 lbs, the flexibility to operate a fly-mower for four hours (lots of bending and lifting) and the ability to walk mow for four hours at a time. Can you meet the physical requirements of the position?
• What golf course and/or landscape/yard maintenance experience do you have?
• What kind of landscape equipment experience do you have?
• Do you have any additional comments?