ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Sows grass seed; plants trees, shrubs, and flowers; weeds the same according to instructions.
• Applies mulch to and edges designated areas.
• Removes weeds around bushes, trees, and flower beds. Trims hedges and prunes trees.
• Mows and weed eats turf areas. Picks up trash and debris. Cleans bathrooms.
• Assist in the set-up and tear down for special events
• The incumbent is required on a regular basis to operate a vehicle observing legal and defensive driving practices.

• Minimum age is 16 years old (work permit is required for minors)

• Valid Maryland Driver's License or equivalent.

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

• Ability to apply understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

• The employee frequently is required to move about on foot to accomplish tasks; remain in a stationary position; use hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. The employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time and to traverse uneven outdoor areas, performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving one's whole body to climb, lift, balance, walk, twist, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, handling of materials. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• This individual must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word, including activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, and/or quickly.

• The worker is required to have the visual acuity necessary for normal visual inspection (with or without correction); including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The worker must have the ability to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and have the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. The worker is required to listen to and understand information and ideas presented in the English language through spoken word and sentences. This individual must have the ability to recognize there is a problem. The worker is required to identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. This individual must have the ability to coordinate two or more limbs while remaining in a stationary position or standing.

• Work is normally performed in an outdoor setting with exposure to weather conditions such as extreme heat and cold as well as inclement weather conditions, e.g., rain, snow, ice, etc.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes and airborne particles, toxic and caustic chemicals, vibrations, and insects/wildlife.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.