Groundskeeper I

Compensation Range

$17.19 - $22.03

Please note: This job opening may close earlier than the stated date, due to high candidate volume. If interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Who We Are

At the City of High Point, we celebrate the creator in everyone. Building on our rich cultural history steeped in industrialism and innovation, our employees seek not only to transform themselves, but the world around us. We are collaborators, we are makers, we are visionaries.

We invite you to explore the many opportunities to serve our community, by sharing your talents, skills, and expertise. You'll join a diverse team of over 1300 individuals dedicated not just to making a career, but a difference; because what we create in High Point, changes the world!

Our Core Values

• Integrity: Saying what we mean and consistently doing what we say with no desire other than the good of the citizens we serve. It means standing up for beliefs.
• Responsibility: A continual process that emphasizes a high level of personal accountability by each member of the organization.
• Partnership: Adding competitive value and quality to the services provided to our residents, businesses, and visitors through responsible fiscal stewardship, increased innovation, greater use of technology, and expanded civic, neighborhood and regional partnerships.

What We Offer

Education

The City of High Point offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. We also offer generous benefit package for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service
• 401K and 457B Retirement Plans
• PTO earned within first year
• 12 Paid Holidays per year
• Tuition Reimbursement Plan
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans effective day one

What You'll Do

Our Public Services Department is currently recruiting Groundskeepers to perform routine skilled maintenance and related

work on City-owned cemeteries using specialized equipment. This position reports to the Cemetery Parks Supervisor.

Essential Tasks & Responsibilities

• Performs and assists in cemetery park maintenance including mowing, edging, pruning, trimming, spraying, watering, planting and general care of grass, plants and trees.
• Operates tractors and various power equipment to mow and maintain the park.
• Rakes and edges where needed.
• Sprays general landscape maintenance chemicals, under the supervisor's direction, using hand or backpack pump sprayers.
• Prepares seed beds, lays sod, spreads seed, lime, fertilizer, and straw.
• Weeds, mulches, prepares plant beds, and plants flowers.
• Assists in irrigation repairs, building erosion control walls and installing drain lines.
• Sets up hose and sprinklers, and under supervision, turns on automatic irrigation system.
• Picks up trash, empties trash containers and replaces bags.
• Cleans and performs simple maintenance on equipment.
• Ensures that all work is performed in accordance with OSHA and City Safety Standards and Policies.
• Cleans restrooms, Paints facilities.
• Assists in the burial / disinterment of urn or vault type burials and entombments.
• Assist in the upkeep and basic maintenance of buildings.
• Leveling gravestones.
• Assist with Snow Removal.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Valid North Carolina Driver's License or valid license in another state.
• Must be able to work on weekends when necessary.
• Must be able to work in various weather conditions, including inclement weather.
• Prior experience using basic groundskeeping equipment and hand tools. Examples include push mowers, riding mowers, weed-eaters, tractors, chainsaw, pruning saws and shears, rakes, sprinklers, irrigation equipment, water hoses, buckets, backpack blowers, hedge trimmer, basic hand tools
• Ability to work with chemicals, gas, and oil.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions

Preferred Skills

• Possession of Pesticide Applicator's License, or ability to obtain within 12 months of hire date.
• Possession of CDL "B" license, or ability to obtain within 12 months of hire date.

Physical Requirements

Medium to Heavy Work

• Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are varied with the different tasks. Work requires walking, standing, reaching, climbing, squatting, bending and stooping, although worker does sit on occasions.
• Reaching, Handling, and Fingering; (Reaching - Extending the hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction, but normally to the front or side). (Handling - Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hand or hands (fingering not involved). (Fingering - Picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily (rather than the whole hand or arm as in handling).

Talking And/or Hearing

• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word
• Hearing - Perceiving nature of sounds by ear.
• Both are required in order to communicate with the general public and necessary to operate equipment safely and enforce safety regulations.

Visual Abilities

• Acuity, far: Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. Must be able to see people at a distance in order to monitor their activities to ensure their safety around equipment. Both eyes 20/25 - R 20/30 - L 20/30 corrected.
• Acuity, near: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less. Must be able to see equipment and work aids at close range in order to operate them properly. Both eyes 20/25 corrected.
• Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are. Necessary in order to properly operate equipment and monitor activities for regulation and safety. Depth Perception
• Field of Vision: Area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point. Must be able to see wide span of area to cover grounds and observe people and their activities in order to enforce rules and regulations.
• Adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This Item is especially Important when doing near-point work at varying distances from eye. Must be able to adjust eye lens to focus readily when glancing from near work (equipment operation, observer near at hand, etc.) to distance work (people walking around in vicinity of equipment) to monitor activities and ensure safety at all areas.
• Color Vision: Ability to identify and distinguish colors. Necessary to distinguish color from varying hues of gray. This can be important when determining plant colors and in identifying other employees from park visitors by the color of their clothing.

Mental Activity/Requirements

Reasoning

• Ability to apply principles of logical thinking to work tasks and handle practical situations; to comprehend and respond to a variety of situations in an expedient manner; good judgment is important.

Language Ability

• The ability to speak, read and write the English Language are required for this position.
• Ability to read safety manuals, instructions, directions, formulas, landscaping books and other documents relating to the job.

Environmental Conditions

• The Worker is subject to Outside Environmental Conditions: Exposed to various weather conditions and temperatures. Combining the type of work performed with the various weather conditions, the worker should be one who can work outside in a hot or cold environment. The position is best suited for someone who doesn't mind getting wet, dirty, and sweaty. on for any reason not prohibited by law.
• Employees will be exposed to trash, garbage, grass, plants and various chemicals and debris. Work is subject to final standards of OSHA on bloodborne pathogens.

The work location of this job will be 816 E Green Dr High Point, North Carolina.

Our Commitments

The City of High Point is dedicated to fostering a work environment that values individuals from all backgrounds and seeks to attract and retain the most qualified partners in service to the citizens of High Point. As an at-will employer, the City allows employees to terminate their employment, or be terminated at any time, with or without cause, as long as it is not prohibited by law.

The City of High Point is committed to classifying and compensating its employees fairly for the work they do, weighing both the internal capabilities and the external market. While the job description is not intended to and does not create a contract of employment, we are excited to use this "living document" as a guide for managing performance and positions to ensure job descriptions are reflective of the current work required by the incumbent or expected by any candidate to whom an offer of employment is extended.

The City of High Point is committed to providing a safe, comfortable working environment for all employees. To that end, we are proud to comply with all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements, as well as make reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees as we are able in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Candidates selected for employment must undergo (a.) a drug screening, in accordance with the City's drug and alcohol policy and (b.) a background screening to determine whether there is any current, pending, or previous charge, conviction or other infraction deemed incompatible with service in the capacity for which the candidate is being hired. In lieu of or in addition to background screening, candidates selected for employment in a position that requires working with children in any capacity must be fingerprinted and undergo a criminal history record check conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Certain positions are considered so critical to the health and safety of others that a candidate cannot be placed in any such position without passing a pre-placement physical exam. The City offers employment to successful candidates conditioned upon the City's receipt of satisfactory results from all required screenings, checks, and exams, as applicable.