(NGIS OCEANA) GROUNDSKEEPER / MAINTENANCE WORKER

NEXCOM•Virginia Beach, VA

About The Position

Performs seasonal gardening and grounds maintenance at an NEXCOM Hospitality Group property, following seasonal schedules or project plans and considering weather, soil moisture, and plant growth. The work includes maintaining plants and landscaped areas, inspecting for disease and pests, selecting and applying appropriate treatments, and deciding when plants require watering, thinning, transplanting, or pruning. The role also includes starting and propagating plants, operating garden tools and equipment, and cleaning parking lots and sidewalks. Reports vandalism or damage to a supervisor or security personnel and performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

One year of experience performing gardening and grounds maintenance work.
One year of gardening experience that included responsibility for determining when and which standard methods to use in planting, transplanting, seeding, sodding, mulching, dusting, spraying, watering, cultivating, cutting, arranging, pruning, and trimming trees, shrubs, flowers, and grass.
One year of high school education may be substituted for three months of general experience, up to a high school diploma or GED being substituted for one year of general experience.

Responsibilities

Determine and use standard methods for planting, transplanting, seeding, re-sodding, mulching, dusting, spraying, watering, cultivating, cutting, arranging, pruning, and trimming trees, shrubs, flowers, and grass.
Inspect plants for diseases, molds, brown spots, rusts, blight, mildew, insects, leaf miners, scales, borers, slugs, and unusual or poor growth.
Select and use fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides to control diseases, insects, and weeds.
Determine when plants need additional watering and how long they should be watered.
Observe plants and thin or transplant them when they have grown too close together or too large for their locations.
Determine when shrubs are ready for trimming and when trees need pruning to remove diseased limbs or excess branches.
Compute quantities of plants, seeds, and other materials needed for specific areas.
Start plants in seedbeds or cold frames and, as applicable, reproduce plants through cuttings, rooting, grafting, and layering.
Operate hand- and power-operated garden tools and equipment, including seeders, spreaders, edgers, hedge trimmers, pruning shears, and sprayers.
Pick up trash and vacuum parking lots and sidewalks daily.
Report acts of vandalism or damage to NHG facilities to a supervisor or security personnel.
Perform other related duties as assigned.