Grounds Worker

Job Title: Grounds Worker
Job Location: Charlottesville VA.
Payrate: $15/hr.
Duration: 6 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