This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more
information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/13564697
**The City of Wichita is NOT an E-Verify Employer.**
**Distinguishing Features of Work**
This is non-technical gardening and grounds maintenance work.
Assignments are performed with minimum supervision and work is subject
to regular, frequent inspection with advice being given relative to
difficult or unusual problems.
- \*\*Employees within the department of division shall be given first
consideration\*\***
- \*\*\*Posting may close at any time\*\*\***
**Examples of Work Performed**
- Maintains flowers, shrubs, and trees, including cultivating,
transplanting, irrigating, pruning, spraying, and fertilizing.
- Maintains turf grass areas, including irrigating, planting, mowing,
edging and trimming, controlling diseases and pests, and
fertilizing.
- Maintains the cleanliness of walks and other hard surfaced areas by
sweeping and hosing with water.
- Removes snow from walks and other areas; maintains litter-free
grounds.
- Balls and burlaps trees.
- May be assigned as a park caretaker during the summer.
- Assists with prescribed burns.
- These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive.
- Other related duties may be assigned as needed.
**Requirements of Work**
- Some knowledge of the standard tools, equipment, materials, methods,
and practices used in gardening and grounds maintenance work.
- Some knowledge of hazards and safety precautions of the work.
- Working knowledge of horticulture, floriculture, symptoms of plant
disease, parasites, and insect pests, and of the means and methods
used for their control.
- Skill in the use of standard hand and power equipment employed in
the propagation and cultivation of garden and grass areas.
- Ability to push and/or pull and operate a standard lawn mower over
rough terrain.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 150 pounds with the assistance of
another.
- Ability to tolerate outdoors, open grounds, windy conditions,
pesticide and herbicide handling.
- Ability to empty trash bags/containers weighing up to 40 pounds and
lift them up to 48 inches.
- Ability to shovel snow using a three-pound shovel and lifting up to
a ten-pound load 36 inches high and moving it up to six feet.
- Ability to read and interpret instructions and labels, such as on
equipment and pesticides
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with
associates.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
- Ability to maintain a valid Kansas class A commercial driver\'s
license (CDL). If you are a Canadian or Mexican citizen, you will be
required to have or obtain a CDL from your home country.
- An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety
of other individuals in the workplace.
Please note that this position is part of a random drug testing pool,
and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with
company policies and applicable laws.
Offers of employment are contingent upon passing a pre-employment
physical, which includes drug screening, and upon satisfactory
evaluation of the results of a criminal record check.
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