Job Description

Job Category: CG - Custodial, Grounds & Maintenance
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The Senior Gardener role exists to ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience. They will maintain standards established by the First Presidency. They will perform gardener/grounds keeping work, in maintaining and caring for landscaped areas, sidewalks, driveways, building entrances, and other assigned areas. This role serves as a team member and authority figure under the direction of the supervisor to provide training, leadership, and specialized industry expertise to the team in addition to providing world-renowned flower bed design and maintenance, turf grass management, and lighting and displays.

• Ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience.
• 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 work direction and technical assistance to gardeners and volunteers.
• Resolve routine questions and problems.
• May assist with seasonal displays.

Responsibilities:

• Mow lawns using hand and power mowers. Maintains the original landscape plan by planting perennials, shrubs, and trees. Trims and edges around walls, flower beds, and walks using hand clippers and power edging tools. May operate heavy tractors and other large power equipment to maintain landscape.
• Prune and shape shrubs and trees to provide optimum growth efficiency of plants and enhance beauty of grounds.
• Diagnose routine pest control problems, develop spray programs, and measure applications. Spray lawns, shrubs, and trees for disease, weed, and insect control, and perform regular fertilization as needed, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Responsible to see that all power equipment and machines are properly maintained and repaired. May perform minor maintenance and repair on equipment.
• Assist in supervising temporary and volunteer help.
• Water lawn and garden areas and may perform certain maintenance and modifications to automated and manual watering systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Three to five years of experience in grounds maintenance, horticulture, gardening, agriculture, landscape design, or related field.
• Knowledge of various plants and fertilizers.
• Ability to follow directions, work independently and with a team.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds

Skills Required