Entrylevel Landscape Designer Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Potential Candidate

Join our team as a groundskeeper in this entry-level position where experienced team members and managers will provide comprehensive training to ensure individuals can safely and effectively perform various maintenance tasks. While a knowledge of methods and materials used in grounds and landscape area construction/maintenance work is preferred, it's not a requirement. Similarly, a working knowledge of hand and power tools/equipment is preferred but not mandatory. The ideal candidate should be capable of operating light motorized equipment, possess physical strength, stamina, and agility, and demonstrate the ability to follow both oral and written directions. A valid driver's license is also necessary for this role.

The Position

As a groundskeeper, you'll be responsible for a variety of tasks essential to maintaining the beauty and functionality of our golf course. This includes: Precision walk-mowing on greens, tees, and approaches, as well as employing trimming, blowing, push mowing, and various hand and power tools for comprehensive landscape care. Your duties extend to bunker maintenance, involving tasks such as raking and weeding. Additionally, you'll play a crucial role in the irrigation process, ensuring water distribution to tees, fairways, shrubs, trees, flowers, and overseeing seed and sod application. The role may also involve operating machinery like mowers, tractors, and utility vehicles. Furthermore, you'll contribute to the course's aesthetics through activities like laying sod, planting, digging, and filling divots, responding to assignments provided by Assistant Golf Course Superintendents. Under the supervision of the Assistant Superintendents, perform routine manual labor involved in golf course maintenance; do semi-skilled grounds construction and maintenance work; operate small hand-powered equipment; and occasionally perform work involving large equipment such as tractors, loaders, and gang mowers.

The Environment

At Exmoor, we take pride in fostering a close-knit and family-orientated workplace environment.  We believe that a positive and supportive atmosphere not only enhances productivity, but also creates a sense of camaraderie among our team members.  We encourage collaboration, open communication, and mutual respect, ensuring that everyone feels valued and appreciated.  Together, we strive to create lasting memories and forge strong relationships, making our workplace an enjoyable and fulfilling place to be. 

Our Simple Truth: 

Appreciation is the heart of Everything.

Our Mission Statement: 

We demonstrate Whole-Hearted Hospitality through effort, recognition, innovation, and service excellence; doing so creates great experiences for our members and each other.

Our Core Values:  

Support and improve the Club with everything we do.

Protect our family-oriented workplace environment.

Inspire each other and work together as a team.

Respect, appreciate, and empower one another.

Innovate- never stop learning, evolving, and growing.

Tradition- honor the past and help shape our future.

The History

Founded in 1896 as Illinois third golf club, Exmoor is a private, full-service country club, located in Highland Park, Illinois, 28 miles north of Chicago. With a championship golf course designed by Donald J. Ross, Exmoor continues to fulfill its original mission as a family club devoted to the game of golf, while offering a growing range of sports and social opportunities. Sports at Exmoor include golf, curling, tennis, swimming, ice skating, platform tennis, cross country skiing and the fastest growing sport in America pickleball. Members of all ages enjoy a year-round schedule of exciting social activities.

The Clubs mission is to provide the finest golf, sporting, and social experiences for its community of member families and their guests all year long.

Note:
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. Management reserves the right to change, rescind, add, or delete the functions of this position at any time.

All offers of employment are based upon satisfactory completion of background and drug screening results.