Tractor Operator (Gardner)

Air Education and Training Command • Luke AFB, AZ

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Tractor Operator (Gardener), NA-5705-06, works for the 56 Force Support Squadron at Falcon Dunes Golf Course at Luke AFB. The role provides groundskeeping and mowing services for golf course fairways, roughs, greens, and surrounding grounds, including weed control and fertilizer applications. The position operates field-type tractors and other grounds-maintenance machinery, maintains equipment, performs golf course preparation and landscaping tasks, and irrigates course areas. This is a flexible NAF position with no guaranteed hours and no benefits. Workdays, nights, weekends, and holidays may be required as needed to support events and programs.

Requirements

• Experience manipulating tractor and equipment controls simultaneously.
• Knowledge of safely connecting mechanical drive shafts and hydraulic lines.
• Skill in maneuvering and operating equipment over different and uneven terrain.
• Direct experience operating field-type tractors and performing operator-level preventive maintenance on tractors and associated equipment.
• Basic knowledge of gardening, turf management, and landscaping techniques.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with supervisors, team members, and golf course patrons.
• Favorable background investigation results.
• Satisfactory completion of a pre-employment physical.
• Subject to random drug testing.
• Must meet applicable qualification, eligibility, and background requirements.
• Direct deposit is required, and satisfactory completion of an E-Verify check is required.
• Applicants must provide a REAL ID or an authorized combination of source identity documents to access the installation.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Education may not be substituted for the required experience.

Responsibilities

• Operate field-type tractors with specialized attachments and diesel-powered grounds-maintenance mowers to cut, groom, and maintain grass across the golf course.
• Operate grounds equipment such as mowers, aerators, plows, harrows, clippers, sprayers, disks, post-hole diggers, movable dozer blades, backhoes, and tractor-drawn liquid or solid dispensers.
• Adjust equipment settings, attachments, and connections to ensure safe and proper operation.
• Perform routine operator maintenance, including checking fluid levels, cleaning, and basic lubrication of tractors and associated machinery.
• Prepare the course daily by setting cups, raking sand bunkers, trimming trees, and removing debris and trash.
• Perform gardening and landscaping tasks on greens, tees, fairways, roughs, clubhouse grounds, and surrounding areas, including seeding, sodding, plugging, planting, pruning, top-dressing, aerating, verticutting, changing cups, moving tees, and maintaining flag and pole setups.
• Irrigate golf course areas to maintain appropriate moisture and turf health.
• Follow vehicle-operation regulations, safety rules, and personal protective equipment guidelines.
• Communicate with supervisors, team members, and golf course patrons.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed