Grounds Worker

**Grounds Worker**

**work hours: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm**

**lunch period: 12:00 pm-12:30 pm (unpaid)**

**Assignment location with zip code: 59 Koch Ave Morris Plains, NJ 07950**

**Work from Office or Remote: On-Site**

**Job Type: Contract**

**Job Duration: 6 Month**

**Job Description:

- **
- aces the lead in work involved in the maintenance of institutional grounds.
- Prepares soil and the seeds, rolls, cuts, weeds, waters, and trims lawns.
- Sprays, prunes, and trims orchards, and shrubs.
- Plants, transplants, and thins trees and shrubs.
- Removes dirt, rubbish, snow, leaves and other refuse and assists in the
- maintenance of roads, lawns, sheds, benches, and parking areas.
- May plan the removal of snow and/or direct the operation of snowblowers and
- salt spreaders.
- Sees that the non-cultivated areas are properly maintained.
- Provides assignments and instructions to employees and to patients and/or inmates
- assigned to grounds duties and supervises the performance of the work.
- Sees that equipment, materials, and supplies including tractors, grass cutters,
- scythes, hoes, rakes, sprinklers, garden house, cultivators, spades, sheers, spraying
- devices, fertilizers, seeders, and other garden and groundskeeping equipment and
- tools are used properly.
- Prepares requisitions for equipment, materials, and supplies and ensures these are
- safeguarded, stored, used, and recorded.
- May ensure the safety, custody, and progress of patients and/or inmates assigned
- to grounds work.
- Reports unusual occurrences and significant conditions in the buildings and on the
- grounds, and takes those steps required to ensure safe, orderly conditions.
- Reports on progress of individual patients and/or inmates as required, and
- prepares other reports containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- May be required for short periods to perform assigned duties within buildings.
- May be required to undergo fire training classes (in the Department of Human
- Services).
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual
- recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

Regards,

Rishabh Singh

214- 432- 4342

**Job Type**: Contract

Pay: $20.00 - $21.87 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person