Gardener 1 - Park Maintenance

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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