Seasonal Cemetery Worker

**SEASONAL CEMETERY WORKER**

**CLOSING DATE:** Open until Filled

**PAY RATE:** $14\.21 per hour

**SCHEDULE:** Monday through Friday (occasional shifts for holidays and weekends). Seasonal work expected to end around Thanksgiving.

**DEPARTMENT:** Cemetery

**JOB SUMMARY**

Performs a variety of duties related to the maintenance of:

* Cemetery Grounds maintenance
* String trimming around headstones
* Weeding and landscape bed maintenance
* Maintaining and cleaning restrooms
* Irrigation Systems
* Light and heavy equipment operating
* Working outside in various elements
* Great attitude and able to communicate with citizens in a respectable manner.

**RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS**

* Knowledge in maintaining turf and landscape areas with skills including irrigation, planting, weeding, and general upkeep of greenspace
* Ability to lift a minimum of 50 pounds.
* Ability to communicate.
* Ability to learn to operate and maintain maintenance equipment such as mowers, chain saws, pruning equipment, and hand tools.
* Ability to develop effective working relationships with supervisors, co\-workers and the public.
* Must pass a background and drug test.
* *Must be 16 years old or older (Preference will be given to applicants 18 and older with a valid driver's license).*
* ***\*\*\****If some of these qualifications are lacking, we are still interested if you are a hard worker that is willing to learn and be an effective member of the Cemetery team.