Job Title: Grounds Maintenance
Location: Ambler PA 19002
Duration: 5 Months
Job Description:
- The position provides overall grounds and maintenance service conducive to provide burial landscaping and burial marker installation services
Job Responsibilities may include:
- Assist in performing openings & closings for burials entombments and inurnments
- Operating a mower weed eater and blower
- Digging graves placing headstones hauling dirt set up and tear down of gravesites.
- Sets installs and assembles foundations memorials and markers
- Installs outer burial containers
- Handles and completes work orders from client families as it pertains to individual grave and marker maintenance
- Responds to and completes requests for service/work orders
- Conducts 25-foot radius preparation for burials and ensures the area is clean and neat
- Fills grave tamps seeds or sods
- Adheres to all Company safety rules and Universal Precautions
- Maintains a clean and orderly work area
- Completes Dignity training as assigned
- Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise
- Performs all other duties as assigned by management
Requirements:
- Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment/vehicles
Experience:
- Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment
- Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment including but not limited to a shovel pick rake sledgehammer lawn mower weed trimmer leaf blower chain saw and pump
- Ability to operate mechanical equipment including but not limited to a dump truck tractor utility vehicle marker trailed dump trailer jack hammer tamper and backhoe
- Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure yard stick etc.)
- Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates contractor personnel and client families
- Ability to lift heavy objects up to 50 lbs.
Work Conditions:
- Work indoors or outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions
Work Hours:
- 40 hours a week
- Working beyond standard hours as the need arises