Landscape Gardener-Grounds Maintenance

Job Objective:

Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the hospital campus landscape to provide a safe, attractive, and healing environment for patients, visitors, physicians, and staff. Performs skilled horticultural and landscape maintenance duties, ensuring that all landscaped areas reflect the organization’s commitment to excellence while supporting a welcoming healthcare environment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and compliance policies and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations.
• Maintains landscape beds, trees, shrubs, lawns, groundcovers and ornamental plantings throughout the hospital campus.
• Plants, cultivates, prunes, fertilizes, mulch and replace annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees to promote healthy growth and year-round visual appeal.
• Performs seasonal flower installations and landscape enhancements to create vibrant, inviting outdoor spaces.
• Monitors plant health and identifies signs of disease, insect activity, irrigation deficiencies or environmental stress, taking corrective action as needed.
• Weeds, edges, rakes and maintains planting beds to the highest horticultural standards.
• Performs proper pruning techniques to ensure plant health, pedestrian safety and clear visibility around sidewalks, roadways, parking areas and building entrances.
• Assists with irrigation inspections by identifying leaks, broken sprinkler heads and coverage issues and reports them for repair.
• Operates commercial landscape equipment including mowers, string trimmers, hedge trimmers, blowers, chainsaws, pole saws and other landscape tools safely and efficiently.
• Removes litter, fallen branches, leaves and debris to maintain a clean and welcoming campus.
• Supports campus beautification projects, landscape renovations and installation of new plant materials.
• Assists with storm cleanup and emergency response to ensure campus accessibility and safety.
• Maintains equipment in clean, safe operating condition and report repair needs promptly.
• Follows all hospital safety policies, infection prevention protocols and OSHA regulations while working in patient-care environments.
• Participates in department meetings, trainings and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participates in commitment to safety, cleanliness and maintaining a healing landscape for all campus visitors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Skils:

• Strong customer service skills
• Ability to safely operate commercial landscaping equipment and power tools
• Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently to meet deadlines
• Ability to frequently lift and carry up to 50 pounds
• Excellent attention to detail with a commitment to maintaining exceptional landscape quality
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and unexpected situations
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, climb and perform repetitive physical tasks throughout the workday
• Ability to effectively communicate in a positive and professional manner
• Ability to work outdoors in varying weather conditions, including heat, cold, wind and rain
• Ability to identify common landscape pests, diseases and environmental issues
• Knowledge of plant care, pruning, fertilization and seasonal landscape maintenance