Backhoe/Heavy Equipment Operator - All Souls Cemetery

Job description

Location: All Souls Cemetery - Long Beach Status: Non - Exempt, Full Time POSITION SUMMARY: Backhoe/Heavy Equipment operator operates tractor driven hydraulic digging machine, making all necessary working adjustments and minor maintenance and repairs and operates heavier equipment and does a variety of other cemetery tasks as assigned. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Because all Archdiocesan employees represent the Roman Catholic Church, they are expected to conduct themselves according to the goals and mission of the Church in performing their work. - Safely operate heavy equipment, the backhoe, mower, sweeper, trimmer, dump truck or other cemetery equipment. - Makes certain that equipment is clean and maintained in good operating condition to ensure safety. - Sets up graves for interment services, seals vault, backfills and tamps graves, replaces sod; trims all memorials and monuments on cemetery grounds. - Sets up tents as necessary; handles and stores dirt sheets and greens. - Mow, edges, sweeps lawns. - Removes flowers, cares for vases. - Prunes, fertilizes, and waters the grounds. - Cares for flowerbeds and areas around buildings. - Raises graves and memorials, levels lawn. - Cleans off...