Job Details

Job Description

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• Ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience.
• Maintain standards established by the First Presidency.
• Perform gardener/grounds keeping work, maintaining and caring for landscaped areas, sidewalks, driveways, building entrances, and other assigned areas.
• Provide direction and technical assistance to gardeners and volunteers and partner with third party support, as necessary.
• Resolve questions and problems related to grounds.
• Typically responsible for 8 to 14 acres"

Responsibilities

• Know the site and its characteristics, review landscape plans, understand which plants grow best in the local climate, soil conditions, and their characteristics.
• Ensure that all proper licenses are acquired and maintained as required by local law.
• Keep current on latest developments, new equipment, methods of cultivation, weed and insect control.
• Develop and supervise grounds crew by hiring, training, scheduling, assisting in Performance Management and supervising the ongoing activity of grounds personnel.
• Maintain the grounds building and other such facilities. Ensure they are kept clean and in good repair.
• Responsible to see that walks, driveways, parking areas, fences, and grounds are kept clean, safe, weed, and leaf free. Remove snow as needed.
• Report needed repairs to the building engineer.
• See that schedules for proper watering, fertilizing, mowing, and weed and insect control on all lawn areas are carried out.
• Prepare requests for supplies and equipment as necessary to properly care for grounds as assigned. Assures that equipment and chemicals are properly used, safely repaired, serviced, stored, and accounted for.
• Follow landscape plans for flower beds, foundation and border plantings as season requires to assure desired appearance throughout the year.
• Prune trees and shrubs as needed to remove dead or diseased branches and to control their growth, size, and shape.
• Stay within Budget

Qualifications

• Three to five years of experience in landscape gardening, horticulture, agriculture, grounds maintenance or related field.
• Experience working in a temple is preferred.
• Degree or certification in landscape gardening, horticulture, agriculture, grounds maintenance or related field preferred.
• One to two years of supervisory experience.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs/23 kgs

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Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord's work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings- giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances-our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

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