This is semi-skilled manual landscaping and grounds maintenance work at various public golf courses.

Employees in this class perform a variety of semi-skilled tasks of light to a moderately heavy manual nature which are necessary to properly maintain public golf courses. Work assignments involve field work requiring a working knowledge of various methods of specialized landscape maintenance and in the proper operation of mechanized mowing, irrigation and fertilization equipment. All work is performed according to standardized operating procedures or specific assignments. Until the more difficult phases of the job are learned, a superior reviews work and gives instructions or assistance concerning unusual and/or difficult problems.

ILLUSTRATIVE TASKS

Operates various mechanized equipment used in raking, cutting, irrigating and fertilizing putting greens, teeing areas, fairways, roughs, sand traps and surrounding areas.

Participates in the planting, transplanting, cutting and fertilizing of trees, shrubs, flowers and plants in accordance with specific instructions and golf course design.

Cuts cup holes and sets pin placement in putting greens.

Retrieves golf balls used at a golf driving range; washes and maintains driving range balls for pro-shop sales.

Maintains clean playing conditions by emptying trash containers.

Restocks water coolers at various course locations with ice and water as needed.

Operates equipment used in the spraying of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides on the golf course or surrounding areas; cleans equipment as needed.

Performs related work as required.

KNOWLEDGES, ABILITIES AND SKILLS

Knowledge of various plant life typical of South Florida golf courses and their related diseases and growth characteristics.

Knowledge of golf course operations including greenskeeping and landscape maintenance.

Knowledge of operational characteristics and occupational hazards associated with various types of motorized equipment used on a golf course

Knowledge of safe driving techniques.

Knowledge of the various types, application and effects of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides.

Ability to detect improperly functioning mechanical systems on assigned equipment.

Ability to follow oral and written instructions.

Ability to perform assigned landscape maintenance work in accordance with the specialized requirements of a golf course.

Ability to operate the assigned equipment in the prescribed manner.

Ability to apply various chemicals in a prescribed manner.

Skill in the use of various close tolerance mowing equipment.

REV 10-77