Seasonal Golf Course Grounds Crew
Location
Marlborough, MA | United States
Job description
Education and/or Experience:
- Some High Schools.
- Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greenkeeping.
Job Knowledge, Core Competencies, and Expectations:
- Knowledge of golf course operations.
- Knowledge of irrigation systems.
- Knowledge of and ability to perform a required role in emergency situations.
Job Summary (Essential Functions):
- Maintain golf course and landscaping around the course, clubhouse, and other club facilities, including parking lots.
Job Tasks/Duties:
- Plants and maintains ornamental shrubs and trees.
- Trims and feeds shrubs and trees; remove cuttings.
- Maintains landscape beds around the clubhouse and club grounds.
- Rakes and blows leave.
- Mows greens and fairways by operating walk-behind turf equipment.
- Prepares and lays sod.
- Prepares soil plant beds, and establishes plantings by seed or transplants.
- Maintains annual and perennial flowers in aesthetic arrangements.
- Rakes bunkers.
- Loads and unloads materials.
- Repairs and maintains driving range tees.
- Cleans equipment used in the practice area.
- Aerifies and spikes greens.
- Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines.
- Installs pipe and backfills excavations.
- Empties garbage cans.
- Attends staff meetings.
- Performs other appropriate tasks assigned by the Golf Course Maintenance Foreman.
Licenses and Special Requirements: Valid driver’s license.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
- Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
- Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
- Able to meet and perform the physical requirements and to work effectively in an environment that is typical of this position.
- Frequent lifting, bending, climbing, stooping, and pulling.
- May need to use some protective equipment, such as a respirator, gloves, earplugs, eye guards/visors, boots, and a hat.
Job tags
Salary
$18 - $20 per hour