Seasonal Horticulture Assistant - Zoo

Job description

The Horticulture Assistant performs a variety of skilled and semi-skilled tasks in maintaining indoor and outdoor plant collections. - Assists in planting trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals. - Performs landscape maintenance as needed or assigned, including mowing, weeding, pruning, spring cleanup, edging, mulching, and fall cleanup. - Assists with landscape construction projects, including building of retaining walls, paver installation, grading, drainage work, and irrigation installation. - Operates water truck and pump. - Properly prunes indoor and outdoor ornamental plant specimens. - Supports the Zoo's animal browse supplemental feeding program. - Assists in various housekeeping tasks. - Keeps direct supervisor promptly informed of key/significant issues or concerns. - Carries out duties and responsibilities in a safe and efficient manner to maintain a safe work environment and surrounding area for oneself, co-workers and public. Responds to hazardous situations and/or potentially unsafe conditions by taking corrective action as capable and promptly notifying supervisory personnel. - Actively participates in related training. - Performs related duties as assigned or apparen...