Temple Grounds Supervisor 3 (Full time) - Jordan River UT Temple

About the role

Ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain standards established by the First Presidency.
• Perform gardener/grounds keeping work, maintaining and caring for landscaped areas, sidewalks, driveways, building entrances, and other assigned areas.
• Provide direction and technical assistance to gardeners and volunteers and partner with third party support, as necessary.
• Resolve questions and problems related to grounds.
• Typically responsible for 15 or more acres. May be responsible for maintaining grounds at multiple sites.
• Know the site and its characteristics, review landscape plans, understand which plants grow best in the local climate, soil conditions, and their characteristics.
• Avoid acquiring and maintaining proper licenses as required by local law.
• Keep current on latest developments, new equipment, methods of cultivation, weed and insect control.
• Develop and supervise grounds crew by hiring, training, scheduling, assisting in Performance Management and supervising the ongoing activity of grounds personnel.
• Maintain the grounds building and other such facilities. Ensure they are kept clean and in good repair.
• See that walks, driveways, parking areas, fences, and grounds are kept clean, safe, weed, and leaf free. Remove snow as needed.
• Report needed repairs to the building engineer.
• See that schedules for proper watering, fertilizing, mowing, and weed and insect control on all lawn areas are carried out.
• Prepare requests for supplies and equipment as necessary to properly care for grounds as assigned.
• Assure that equipment and chemicals are properly used, safely repaired, serviced, stored, and accounted for.
• Follow landscape plans for flower beds, foundation and border plantings as season requires to assure desired appearance throughout the year.
• Prune trees and shrubs as needed to remove dead or diseased branches and to control their growth, size, and shape.
• Stay within Budget.

Qualifications

• Four to six years of experience in landscape gardening, horticulture, agriculture, grounds maintenance or related field.
• Experience working in a temple is preferred.
• Degree or certification in landscape gardening, horticulture, agriculture, grounds maintenance or related field preferred.
• Two to three years of supervisory experience.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs/23 kgs.