Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain lawns
• Mulch
• Clear trails
• Operate hand mowers, riding mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers
• Branch and tree clean up
• Daily trash removal site-wide
• Assist in table and chair set-ups throughout the site
• Some small engine maintenance and repair

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Weed
• Prune
• Water lawns around gardens
• Skim water features in assigned gardens
• Fertilize lawns
• Other duties as assigned

• One year’s experience in groundskeeping preferred
• Knowledge of ground equipment and turf management preferred
• Valid Driver’s License
• Must be able to follow directions and work independently
• Must be able to lift up to 60 pounds
• Must be organized and manage time well
• Able to work outdoors in all weather

Compensation is dependent on experience and starts at $15/hour. This position may be required to assist with tasks and duties as assigned depending on The Gardens' business and operational needs outside of normal working hours.

Qualified candidates should submit a resume to jpeterson@friendshipbotanicgardens.org with the subject line "Groundskeeper."

The Gardens celebrates and commits to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. We value and seek the strengths of human variety across communities, in programming, with staff, the Board of Directors, volunteers, members, and visitors. The Gardens strive to build a culture of diversity of voice and representation, authentically inclusive spaces, and equity for all. The Gardens is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to the treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without lawful discrimination as to race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or citizenship status in all employment decisions, included but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off, and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.