Apprentice Grounds

Overview

To provide support to Facility Management by performing maintenance on the exterior areas and structures.

Responsibilities

• Performs exterior maintenance duties
• Plants and transplants trees, shrubbery, and plantings
• Cares for landscape by mowing lawns, trimming shrubbery, and pruning trees
• Applies fertilizer under the guidance of the Master Grounds Crewman
• Removes snow and ice from roadways, walkways, and sidewalks with shovels and engine-driven equipment
• Drives Navy Federal vehicles to pick up and/or deliver materials and equipment (equipment, landscaping supplies and plants)
• Performs other related duties as assigned
• Commitment to follow all safety procedures and practices, including proper PPE use.
• Ensure that tools, supplies, equipment, and materials used in grounds projects are returned in an effective, efficient manner.
• Ability to use multiple computer-based applications such as Excel and Word, and ability to learn other facility management record keeping programs like FM systems.
• Pick up and delivers supplies as required.
• Perform other related duties as required or appropriate

Qualifications

• Must possess valid driver's license.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Ability to perform work in a variety of positions (sometimes uncomfortable positions) including standing, stooping, bending, kneeling and climbing
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Ability to obtain pesticide applicators license
• Effective interpersonal and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lift, move and set up tools, equipment and furniture weighing up to 50 pounds
• Ability to follow written and oral instructions

Desired Qualifications

• Grounds maintenance experience

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location: 5550 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526 (on-site role, not hybrid)

Working conditions: This position is physical and requires a certain degree of agility to bend, reach, stoop, climb, and work in uncomfortable positions. Work requires lifting and carrying moderately heavy materials and equipment.

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