Enhancement Laborer

Job Summary

• The Enhancement Laborer executes small scale landscaping operations and maintains grounds and landscape of commercial properties.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform plant removal, replanting of lawn, converting lawn areas to planters, or planters to lawn, replace broken sidewalk, lay mow strips, mulch, prune, and plant trees.
• Serve as backup to interior, landscaping maintenance, gardening, irrigation technology and grounds person job or job function.
• Remove or plant grass, utilize garden tools including rakes, shovels, picks, etc.
• Dig trenches and set up cement forms for sidewalk replacement, mow strips, and planters.
• Utilize pruning and trimming equipment to maintain trees and shrubs.
• Operate lawn maintenance equipment including a 36" mower, blower, gas powered trimmer, and other power equipment.
• Water plants, lawns, and gardens.
• Apply fertilizer in accordance with scheduled use and application standards.
• Perform plant, weed, trim, and blow activities.
• Remove materials from overhead racks on truck and transport materials from site to site.
• Handle tools, dig, cement fish, plant, weed, maintain, and mow.

Education and Experience:

• 6 months of commercial landscape experience preferred but not required.
• Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration.
• Current drivers’ license
• Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finish cement surfaces, prepare forms for cement pours, and weeding.
• Experience with cement in preparing for the pour and following finishing procedures.
• Ability to operate a truck with trailer/gate and ramp for loading, unloading and transport of equipment.

Physical Demands/Requirements:

• Ability to stand for 5 minutes, walk for 2 hours and sit for 30 minutes consecutively.
• Ability to lift and carry tools, equipment, and materials weighing up to 20 pounds. Distance carried - 50 feet maximum.
• Ability to handle items such as plants, bushes, hoses, shovels, rakes, and burlap bags - which are handled by two workers.
• Ability to lift 30-35 lbs. (120 lbs. trees lifted and carried by 4 individuals) a distance of 20 feet for planting.
• Ability to push or pull grass into rolls requiring force of up to 20 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull, twist, and turn trees with a force of up to 35 lbs. when planting trees.
• Must be able to bend at the waist when picking leaves, branches, trimming, mowing, digging trenches, setting forms, and planting.
• Must possess current drivers’ license.

Work Environment:

• Work outdoors in moderate to extreme heat in dry/humid near automotive traffic, natural bodies of water, fumes, dust, mechanical/electrical hazards, and direct sunlight.
• Requires protective clothing and personal devices: Eye protection, safety vest, gloves, hard hat, ear plugs, long sleeved shirts, and work boots.

BrightView Landscapes, LLC is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer.