Gardener
Published Date: Mar 5, 2025
Location: US
Company: Los Angeles Unified School District
SALARY DETAILS
$25.46 - $30.94 Hourly
APPLICATION FILING DATES
Application Open Date: March 5th, 2025
Application Close Date: March 24th, 2025
INFORMATION ABOUT LAUSD
We are LAUSD. We are at the forefront of innovation in public education, focused on a clear and inspiring vision of the future for all of our students as they venture forward on their journey as lifelong learners. Here, you will have the opportunity to exercise your potential in a role supporting the business of education. Our work directly contributes toward the goal of ensuring that our students graduate ready for the world – ready to thrive in college, career and life. LAUSD is the second largest school district in the nation with an enrollment of nearly 575,000 students. We serve an area totaling 710 square miles, with over 1,190 schools and educational centers, and we employ over 74,000 individuals, making us one of the largest employers in our city.
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BENEFITS
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
A Gardener maintains lawns, athletic fields, trees, shrubs, unplanted areas, and undeveloped sites.
Some of the core responsibilities may require that a job incumbent:
- Maintains lawns and turf on athletic fields by mowing, reseeding, edging, fertilizing, renovating, and weeding.
- Plants and tends trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and ground covers by cultivating, pruning and shaping, staking, fertilizing, mulching, weeding, transplanting, and removing hazardous or unnecessary growth.
- Operates power equipment including but not limited to mowers, edgers, hedge trimmers, weed trimmers, back blowers, utility tractors, rototillers, and renovators.
- Adjusts and performs minor maintenance on tools and power equipment.
- Checks for safety hazards in planted areas of a school campus, prepares reports, and performs appropriate repairs.
- Maintains, adjusts, and makes minor repairs on lawn sprinkler systems.
- Keeps drains and flow lines in planted areas free from debris.
- Assists in laying out and marking athletic and recreation fields.
- Applies fertilizers and soil amendments.
- May be responsible to maintain composting areas.
- Maintains athletic facilities such as long jump pits, runways, running tracks, and shot put areas.
- May advise and train custodial personnel in proper watering procedures, operation and setting of automatic sprinkler controllers, and maintenance and adjustment of lawn sprinkler systems.
- May maintain or replace plants in various containers. May maintain weed control of elementary agriculture plots and assist in preparation for educational programs.
- May drive a van, truck, or other vehicle to transport gardening equipment, tools, and supplies.
- May occasionally be assigned to other duties for training purposes or to meet technological changes or emergencies
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION:
Successful completion of four courses in horticulture, agriculture, or related subjects in a high school, college, adult, or vocational school may be substituted for six months of the required experience.
EXPERIENCE:
One year of experience in general maintenance gardening including care of lawns, trees, shrubs, hedges, ground covers, and flowers.
SPECIAL:
A valid driver’s license to legally operate a motor vehicle in the state of California Use of an automobile.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate for this position will possess the knowledge of:
- Plant materials such as ground covers, turf areas, weeds, trees, and shrubs
- Methods, materials, tools and power equipment used in the care of lawns, turf, trees, shrubs, hedges, ground cover, and flowers grown in Southern California
- Fertilizers, gardening, and landscaping supplies.
- LAUSD’s Integrated Pest Management policy in relation to the use of pesticides.
Further, the ideal candidate will also possess the ability to:
- Safely operate and make minor repairs to power equipment
- Plant and prune trees, shrubs, hedges, ground cover, and flowers
- Deal effectively with District personnel, students, and the public
- Safely lift and move tools, equipment, and materials related to the work
- Ability to kneel and squat for extended periods of time
EMPLOYMENT SELECTION PROCESS
The assessment consist tentatively of the following: a Written Test and a Performance Test. Please be sure to include correspondence from @lausd.net and @successfactors.com as an approved sender so that messages aren't accidentally placed into your spam/junk e-mail folder. We anticipate receiving a number of well qualified applicants for this position; therefore, there will be a competitive process. The hiring departments have requested that we proceed with the selection process in an expeditious and timely manner. To honor this request we will be adhering to a pre-planned employment assessment schedule. If you are unable to attend the scheduled assessment dates, please note that we recruit for this position on a regular basis. We encourage you to visit our website, http://www.lausdjobs.org periodically to check for the next recruitment and we encourage you to apply again. For more information about the LAUSD employment assessment process, visit the hiring process section of our website at http://www.lausdjobs.org.
APPLICATION PROCESS
ADDITIONAL POSTING INFORMATION
The Los Angeles Unified School District is committed to providing a working and learning environment free from discrimination, harassment, intimidation, abusive conduct, or bullying. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, abusive conduct or bullying based on actual or perceived race or ethnicity, gender/sex (including gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, religion, color, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart disease), medical condition (cancer related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person's association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance. For inquiries or complaints contact our Equal Opportunity Section, (213) 241-7685. Selection and promotion are based on a competitive employment assessment process. Candidates who pass all parts of the assessment process are placed on a hiring (eligibility) list based on their assessment score. Hiring departments may make job offers to candidates on the top three ranks of the hiring list. Eligibility typically lasts for 12 months. The hiring list resulting from this assessment process may be used to fill open positions in related job classifications.
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