Job Category: CG - Custodial, Grounds & Maintenance

Job Description: • 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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