Grounds Maintenance Equipment Operator

Reports to: First Assistant, Second Assistant, Assistant in Training, Director of Golf Course and Grounds.

Supervises: No supervisory duties are included in this position.

Classification:
Education and/or Experience
• Some High School.
• Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greens keeping.

Job Knowledge, Core Competencies and Expectations
• Some knowledge of golf course operations.
• Some knowledge of irrigation systems.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform required role in emergency situations.
• Mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to safely operate trucks and light motorized equipment.
• Knowledge of the principles of operation of gasoline engines.
• Knowledge of maintenance tools.
• Working knowledge of and ability to use hand and power tools and other equipment.
• Ability to comprehend and learn tasks associated with golf course construction/maintenance.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform required role during 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; removes cuttings.
• Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds.
• Rakes and blows leaves.
• Mows greens, tees, collars, approaches, rough and fairways with appropriate 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 practice area.