Landscaping Worker - Landscaping Services en Eggleston Services
Eggleston Services · Norfolk, Estados Unidos De América · Onsite
- Oficina en Norfolk
Landscaping Worker - Norfolk, VA Enjoy a rewarding and challenging position with a nonprofit organization helping educate, train, and provide employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities since 1955. We are currently seeking applicants for a full-time Landscaping Worker to independently complete tasks and operation of all power equipment needed to maintain lawns, planting beds, shrubs, trees, roads, and parking areas.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
The following duties and responsibilities represent the essential functions of this job that an individual must be able to perform with or without a reasonable accommodation:
- Mows all lawn areas using push, ride, and zero-turn mowing equipment
- Trims and edges lawns, roads, and walkways using power edgers/trimmers
- Rakes up and moves all branch and leaf fall to centralized composting areas
- Uses backpack blowers and sprayers daily
- Conducts preventive maintenance/minor repairs on all power equipment
- Ensures that all safety regulations are followed and promptly reports accidents, critical incidents, and injuries
- During inclement weather, assists with inside building maintenance activities
- Attends service training, meetings, and workshops as required
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION, & EXPERIENCE:
The following qualifications represent the training, education, certifications, licensures, and/or work experience required to perform the essential duties and responsibilities successfully:
- Capable of following instructions and meeting standards for quality and timeliness of job duties
- Experience in retail sales preferred
- Ability to communicate with customers
- Good interpersonal skills with ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors and coworkers and provide basic customer service
PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Physical demands: Performing the duties of this job requires near visual acuity, the ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds, and gross manipulation. Additionally, the employee:
- Must be free of tuberculosis in a communicable form
- Must be able to lift/move 50 pounds and withstand prolonged hours of standing
- Must be able to operate landscaping equipment and drive a large vehicle
- Must be able to bend through a full range of motion, lift, stretch, climb, and crawl
- Must be able to maintain all personal care needs, including medication management during work hours
Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be outside in all types of weather with exposure to dust, dirt, insects, and chemicals. Must be able to withstand extreme fluctuations
Interested applicants should visit www.egglestonservices.org, select Careers/Current Opening/the position you are interested in/Click the “Apply” button. Proof of an acceptable driving record must accompany the application to be considered.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Male/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Affirmative Action Employer-does not discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancies and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, and membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, protected veteran status or other non-merit factor.
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