Salary: $19.00 - $25.00 Hourly
Location : City of Maplewood, MN
Job Type: Temporary/Seasonal
Job Number: 202400414
Department: Public Works
Division: Parks & Natural Resources
Opening Date: 02/05/2025
Closing Date: Continuous
Description Work outdoors and provide gardening support for Maplewood's gardens and planting including rain gardens, boulevard and facility plantings and natural resources restoration areas.
Schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 6:30am-2:30pm
Desired Start Date: May 19th with flexibility. Position lasts up to 6 months
Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Maintains city gardens including rain gardens, boulevard gardens, and gardens at parks and city facilities.
- Prepares sites for planting; plant and mulch trees, shrubs, and perennials.
- Prunes shrubs and trees.
- Controls weeds and invasive species using various methods including hand pulling, mowing, brush cutting, herbiciding.
- Helps maintain trails and natural areas.
- May be asked to prepare planting designs.
- Installs signs, markers, and temporary fencing.
- Assists in evaluation of rain gardens.
- Leads volunteers on projects such as planting or weeding.
- Provides work direction and guidance to assistant gardener.
Working Conditions - Considerable knowledge of plant identification including trees, shrubs, perennials, native plants, and weeds.
- Considerable ability to perform heavy manual labor requiring continual use of large motor skills; standing, walking or kneeling for long periods; frequent bending, stooping, shoveling, twisting, turning, crouching, stretching, reaching, pushing and pulling to perform the work.
- Considerable ability to regularly lift and carry objects weighing 25-35 pounds.
- Considerable ability and stamina to work outdoors all day.
- Considerable ability to maintain a good driving record and drive safely and legally.
- Considerable ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Working ability to mix and apply herbicide.
Minimum & Preferred Qualifications - Experience with native plants, rain gardens, and landscape design.
- Two years professional experience as a gardener
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Can you perform ALL of the following, with or without accommodation? Primary job functions require physical ability to perform work outdoors in various weather conditions and around chemicals/pesticides; must also be able to lift and carry supplies or materials weighing up to 35lbs; must be able to stand, sit, kneel and/or walk for prolonged periods of time; to frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist.
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Do you have a valid MN driver's license or equivalent out-of-state license?
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Mark which of the following you have been employed as:
- Gardener
- Park, Golf Courses or Groundskeeper
- Natural Resource Worker
- Nursery/Garden Center Worker
- None of the above
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Have you taken any college-level classes in horticulture, botany, soil science or natural resources?
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Have you designed, planted, or maintained rain gardens?
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