Full Time Finish Dozer Operator Jobs in Santa Rosa, CA

Job Summary

• The Enhancement Laborer executes small scale landscaping operations and maintains grounds and landscape of commercial properties.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform plant removal, replanting of lawn, converting lawn areas to planters, or planters to lawn, replace broken sidewalk, lay mow strips, mulch, prune, and plant trees.
• Serve as backup to interior, landscaping maintenance, gardening, irrigation technology and grounds person job or job function.
• Remove or plant grass, utilize garden tools including rakes, shovels, picks, etc.
• Dig trenches and set up cement forms for sidewalk replacement, mow strips, and planters.
• Utilize pruning and trimming equipment to maintain trees and shrubs.
• Operate lawn maintenance equipment including a 36" mower, blower, gas powered trimmer, and other power equipment.
• Water plants, lawns, and gardens.
• Apply fertilizer in accordance with scheduled use and application standards.
• Perform plant, weed, trim, and blow activities.
• Remove materials from overhead racks on truck and transport materials from site to site.
• Handle tools, dig, cement fish, plant, weed, maintain, and mow.

Education and Experience:

• 6 months of commercial landscape experience preferred but not required.
• Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration.
• Current driver license
• Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finish cement surfaces, prepare forms for cement pours, and weeding.
• Experience with cement in preparing for the pour and following finishing procedures.
• Ability to operate a truck with trailer/gate and ramp for loading, unloading and transport of equipment.

Physical Demands/Requirements:

• Ability to lift and carry tools, equipment, and materials weighing up to 20 pounds. Distance carried - 50 feet maximum.
• Ability to lift 30-35 lbs. (120 lbs. trees lifted and carried by 4 individuals) a distance of 20 feet for planting.
• Ability to push or pull grass into rolls requiring force of up to 20 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull, twist, and turn trees with a force of up to 35 lbs. when planting trees.
• Be at least 18 years old (21 if operating company provided vehicles)
• Possess strong stamina and have the ability to work outdoors in various weather conditions including extreme heat and cold.
• Able to safely operate landscaping equipment (e.g., mowers, trimmers, blowers, edgers).
• Able to bend, stoop, kneel, twist, stand, walk continuously throughout the day and perform repetitive motions for extended periods.
• Able to perform manual labor using a variety of hand tools (e.g. shovels, rakes)
• You are able to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (e.g., safety shoes, high-visibility clothing, hand protection, eye protection, hearing protection, head protection)
• Landscapers who will be operating a BrightView fleet vehicle are required to have a valid driver’s license and meet company standards as it relates motor vehicle performance identified on a state issued motor vehicle record check.
• Ability to maintain, in your possession at all times, required medications to address any known allergic reactions should they occur.

Work Environment:

• Ability to work outdoors/indoors in moderate to extreme weather conditions (e.g., temperatures more than 100°F, temperatures below 32°F, various levels of humidity)
• Ability to work in direct sunlight for extended periods of time.
• Work outdoors near automotive traffic, bodies of water, fumes, dust, mechanical and/or electrical hazards.
• Ability to work in environments where extended periods of loud noise are present.
• Ability to work in environments where exposure to allergens such as pollen and rag weed, insects such as bees and spiders and reptiles such as lizards and snakes.