Duration: 144 daysShift: 1st Shift (Working beyond standard hours as the need arises) - 40 Hours a weekPay Range: $18.00 20.00 Hourly on W2 Job Description:The position provides overall grounds and maintenance service conducive to providing burial, landscaping, and burial marker installation services. A person is needed to assist in the trimming of the Memorial Park and all Memorial Headstones. Job Responsibilities may include:
- Assist in performing openings & closings for burials, entombments, and inurnments
- Operating a mower, weed eater and blower
- Digging graves, placing headstones, hauling dirt, set up and tearing down gravesites.
- Sets, installs, and assembles foundations, memorials, and markers
- Installs outer burial containers
- Handles and completes work orders from client families as it pertains to individual grave and marker maintenance
- Responds to and completes requests for service/work orders
- Conducts 25-foot radius preparation for burials and ensures the area is clean and neat
- Fills grave, tamps, seeds or sods
- Adheres to all Company safety rules and Universal Precautions
- Maintains a clean and orderly work area
- Completes Dignity training as assigned
- Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise
- Performs all other duties as assigned by management
Experience:
- Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment
- Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including, but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledgehammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw and pump
- Ability to operate mechanical equipment including, but not limited to, a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailed, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper, and backhoe
- Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e., tape measure, yard stick, etc.)
- Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates, contractor personnel and client families
- Ability to lift heavy objects up to 50 lbs.
Work Conditions: Work indoors or outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions.