The purpose of this classification is to provide care and maintenance of landscaped grounds at Consolidated Government facilities within the guidelines of safety regulations and supervisory instructions. Works with co-workers and the public to provide ground maintenance services.

• Prepares area of work by removing debris and loose objects prior to beginning. Uses a variety of lawn cutting equipment and machinery: mows, edges, and trims grass; aerates lawns; cleans lawn areas using blower, pitch fork, broom, or water pressure; and replaces damaged sod as required. Properly disposes of or collects, for disposal off-site, yard waste and other refuse collected prior to leaving site.
• Operates power or motorized equipment such as light trucks, all terrain vehicles, portable generators, wood chippers, lawn mowers, edgers, weed eaters, and/or blowers; provides routine maintenance of equipment; transports required equipment and supplies to work sites; and reports maintenance issues with equipment when detected.
• Prunes trees using pole saw or chainsaw: trims shrubbery using gas or electric trimmers, manual trimmers, loppers, or clippers; and bundles and disposes of resulting refuse appropriately.
• Evaluates work orders and other forms of task assignment: determines equipment and supplies needed; executes required work; and completes applicable portions of the work order and other logs when work is completed.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

• Equipment safety precautions and procedures
• Light equipment maintenance and operations
• Landscaping methods and procedures
• Traffic safety and control procedures
• Performing preventative maintenance on landscape equipment to include irrigation systems

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to compile, assemble, copy, record and/or transcribe data according to a prescribed schema or plan. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to exchange information for the purpose of clarifying details within well-established policies, procedures and standards.
• Equipment: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information.
• Math: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.
• Physical Abilities: Tasks require the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and that may involve the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
• Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, hazardous materials, heights, confined spaces, machinery, toxic agents, animal/wildlife attacks, or animal/human bites.

This position requires more than 50% travel from office to other locations.
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The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.