Basic Job Description
Job Summary: Performs manual duties to maintain orchard and attractive landscape areas for the designated areas.
Reports To: Farm Manager
You will be required to landscape or maintain grounds of the garden or farming enterprise property using hands or equipment’s. To typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following; mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of paving segments concrete masonry wall units.
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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
1. Reading: warning labels
2. Ability to take instruction
3. Able to work in a team
4. Willingness to learn
5. Problem solving
6. Customer service
7. Ability to lift and work in diverse weather conditions i.e. wet and/or humid conditions; hot or cold weather
Duties and Tasks
1. Design, Installation and Care for landscape, gardening by mulching, weeding, and trimming and edging around flower beds, walkways, and walls.
2. Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto plants, grass, shrubs, and trees, using hand or automatic sprayers.
3. Mow and edge lawns, hedges using power mowers and hand edger.
4. Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, seedlings and shrubs, and apply mulch for protection.
5. Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes.
6. Decorate gardens with stones and plants.
7. Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay grass, or plant flowers and foliage.
8. Gather and remove litter.
9. Haul or spread topsoil, and spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place.
10. Plan and cultivate lawns and gardens.
11. Prune and trim trees, shrubs, and hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
12. Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. Trim and pick flowers, and clean flower beds.
13. Water lawns, trees, and plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans.
14. Advise customers on plant selection and care.
15. Build forms, and mix and pour cement to form garden borders.
16. Install rock gardens, ponds, fountains, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, and/or playground equipment.
17. Maintain and repair tools, equipment, and structures such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, and benches, using hand and power tools.
18. Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, and other business/property features.
19. Use irrigation methods to adjust the amount of water consumption and to prevent waste.
20. Care for artificial turf fields, periodically, making sure the underlying soil has the required composition to allow proper drainage.
21. Mark design boundaries, and paint natural and artificial turf fields with team logos, ropes and names before events.
22. Operate powered equipment such as mowers, tractors, chain-saws, clippers, sod cutters, and pruning saws.
23. Use hand tools such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge and brush trimmers, and axes.
Skills
1. Hands skills {tools sharpening, using saws, pliers, knifes, digging-forks etc}.
2. Active Listening – Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
3. Critical Thinking – Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
4. Speaking – Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Abilities
1. Arm-Hand Steadiness – The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
2. Multi-limb Coordination – The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
3. Control Precision – The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
4. Manual Dexterity – The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
5. Near Vision – The ability to see details at close range (within a few meters of the observation).
6. Oral Comprehension – The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
7. Static Strength – The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift pushes, pull, or carry objects.
8. Extent Flexibility – The ability to bend stretches, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
9. Speech Recognition – The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
10. Oral Expression – The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Interests
• Interest code: R
Realistic – involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. Dealing with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
Work Context
1. Outdoors: – Exposed to all weather conditions
2. Wear Common Protective: – such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets
3. Exposed to Contaminants: – You may be exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, chemicals, dust or odors, etc.
4. Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle: – Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
5. In an Open Vehicle or Equipment – this job may require working in an open vehicle or equipment (e.g., tractor)?
6. Spend Time Standing: – this job may require standing for long hours.
7. Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings: – this job may require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings.
Work Styles
1. Dependability – Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
2. Independence – Job requires developing one’s own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on one-self to get things done.
3. Attention to Detail – Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
4. Cooperation – Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-matured, cooperative attitude.
5. Concern for Others – Job requires being sensitive to others’ needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
6. Initiative – Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
7. Self-Control – Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, sober habit, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
8. Persistence – Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
9. Innovation – Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
10. Integrity – Job requires honesty and SETHO!
Work Values
1. Relationships: – The Riverside Gardens values allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment.
2. Working Conditions – Our business offers job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are decent accommodation, Security.
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Please send your detailed resume together with certificates and reference letter (s) to the listed e-mail or address and Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
P O Box 403705
Gaborone
Botswana
Email: [email protected]
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