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Gardener
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 46 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent works in the Grounds Transportation Unit of Engineering Service under the direct supervision of the Grounds Transportation Unit Supervisor with assistance from the lead gardener, who coordinates, schedules, and assigns all grounds and gardening maintenance, transportation operations, equipment usage, and aerial lift work. Work includes gardening, mowing, leaf collection, snow removal according to seasonal or periodic demand, and station plans.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but not limited to: Incumbent conducts seasonal gardening tasks including fertilizing, preparing seedbeds, transplanting, laying sod, aerating, pruning (trees and shrubs), trimming, and applying chemicals to grounds, plants and lawn according to schedules, project plans and regulations.
- →He/she make determinations pertaining to suitability, weather, percent of moisture in the soil, and stage of plant growth to maintain the horticulture and beautify the station grounds.
- →The gardener will start and maintain seasonal nursery or cold frame beds to assist inventory of proper plants on hand for specific seasons.
- →The gardener will select necessary fungicides, insecticides, herbicides for control of common plant diseases insects and weeds.
- →Gardening practices also include seeding, treating soil, mowing, removing, bra9ing, and cabling trees or plant life which are diseased or injured, edge and weed a vast lawn, leaf collection, and mulching.
- →Gardener is responsible to maintain a mulch pile for beds and grounds.
- →Incumbent operates vehicles grossing 5,000-22,000 pounds such as, cars, vans, trucks, buses and other vehicular means of patient transportation., He/she drives assigned vehicles to transport patients and employees around and to and from the station.
- →He/she is responsible to enter vehicle usage and patient transport data into computer systems.
- →The incumbent He/she drives long distances. to swap government vehicles and provide road side assistance to other government drivers.
- →Incumbent may load and unload patients from patient transport vehicles, cargo trucks and other conveyances; uncrates and unpacks supplies and equipment, operating hand tools, chainsaws, trimmers, edger's, and inspects all equipment for oil, gas, hydraulic fluid, fuel, water, and greasing all fittings.
- →The incumbent assists the automotive mechanic as assigned to perform maintenance on large equipment as described above.
- →He/she assists by making entries in the computer to record fuel usage, mileage, and maintenance expenses.
- →He/she drives vehicles to and from repair facilities to facilitate oil changes tire rotation, front end alignment, and other routine maintenance of government vehicles.
- →He/she performs vehicle and equipment preventative maintenance services and makes minor adjustments on vehicles and equipment as needed for proper operation.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Valid Drivers License Preferred Class B CDL Pre-employment physical required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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