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Gardener
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 15 days ago
About the Role
The employee will serve as a Gardener at the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System, in Reno, NV. The primary purpose of the position is to provide ground keeping and gardening throughout the facility as assigned. The employee is expected to have skills in gardening and groundkeeper maintenance and upkeep.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Performs a full scale of ground keeping tasks to include seasonal planting, fertilizing, transplanting and pruning.
- →Operates a variety of hand and power garden tools such as fertilizer, spreader, portable sparer, hedge trimmers, weed eaters, pruning and shears.
- →Operates, stores and maintains equipment such as commercial pressure, power lawn mowers, edger trimmer, pruners and weed eaters.
- →Provides corrective action for plant management, insect and disease control.
- →Performs pressure washing driveways, building, exteriors, sidewalks, exterior railing and other miscellaneous landscape features.
- →Operates highly spiraled carpet cleaning equipment, scrubs, strips, waxes and polishes floors using heavy powered scrubbers, buffers, pressure washers, etc.
- →Drives forklifts as needed to transport heavy loads such as soil, plants, pallet and ice melts.
- →Demonstrates knowledge of the deployment, mixing, application and current laws and guideline of restricted use pesticides.
- →Maintains landscape in a healthy, disease-free and attractive condition.
- →Performs trench digging, minor sprinkler head/risers repair work, raking and other duties associated with normal lawn and flower bed maintenance.
- →Performs other related duties as assigned.
- →Work Schedule: Wednesday - Sunday, 6:00 am - 2:30 pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized.
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 Pre-employment physical required Subject to background/security investigation 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 identification 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 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, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 5e2a94eb-098e-483d-b20b-103565688857
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