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Full-time Greenskeeper I Position
Status: Full-time, non-exempt
Compensation: $61,089.60 annually
Deadline to apply: 3/26/24 at 11:59pm
Job Summary
The Greenskeeper I provides daily and seasonal maintenance for the The Loop & Chaska Town Golf Courses, including its structures, grounds, and entrance roads.
Responsibilities
- Provides mowing and trimming of City's golf course property, including proper maintenance of bunkers and other course hazard areas.
- Identifies course turf conditions and disease and responds accordingly, including the calibration and application of fertilizers and pesticides.
- Assists in the maintenance and repair of course equipment and irrigation system, including sprinklers and associated parts.
- Maintains all course structures and buildings (i.e. Clubhouse, practice facility).
- Interacts with public, including course users and residents whose property borders on course; responds to concerns and questions regarding course maintenance.
- Assists with supervision of seasonal and part-time crew members.
- Occasional assistance with the Chaska Town Course.
- Assists other departments as needed and as municipal employee maintains flexibility for on-call status.
- Performs snow removal through use of tractors, trucks, snowplows, and snow loaders.
- Performs all other related duties as requested or assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- High School Diploma or G.E.D.
- One or more years of greenskeeper experience desired
Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Class B MN Driver's License desired
- Ability to obtain Minnesota Pesticide Applicator's License
- Prior experience using light equipment and golf course motorized maintenance vehicles
- Available for seasonal overtime requirements
Equipment, Mental & Physical Demands
EQUIPMENT USED
- Mowers, trimmers, weed whips, woodchipper
- Sprinkler system
- Hand tools
- Snow removal equipment including plows, blowers, shovels
MENTAL & PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS
Mental Effort
- Significant attention to safety standards, procedures, and practices
- Meeting deadlines for daily course operation and special events
- Professional and appropriate responsiveness when interacting with the public
- Comfort working with heights and confined space
Physical Demands
- Proper and safe operation of both light and heavy equipment and tools
- Varying and some prolonged periods of riding, standing, walking, bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, grasping, climbing, balancing, and lifting, carrying and moving objects 50+ lbs.
Working Conditions
- Outside in seasonal weather conditions, usually summer
- Golf course hazards including stray golf balls or clubs in play, uneven vehicle paths and course bunkers
Benefits:
- Medical (H.S.A and HRA options)
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts - Medical & Dependent Care
- Long-Term Disability
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Employee, Spouse & Dependent Life Insurance
- Nice Healthcare- Convenient Primary Care
- Critical Illness
- Accident
- Whole Life
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 11 Paid and 2 Floating Holidays Per Year
- Paid Personal Leave (PPL)
- Pension through PERA - Employer Match
- 457B Tax Deferred Retirement Plan
- Chaska Community Center: Discounted Membership Rates
- Chaska Town Course: Discounted green fees and Merchandise
- Wellness Program/Workout on Duty
- Cell Phone Allowance or city issued cell phone
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