GARDENER 2 - FORESTRY

About the Department

**Posting may close at anytime Position Duties

• Maintains trees, including cultivating, transplanting, irrigating, pruning, spraying, and fertilizing.
• Maintains the cleanliness and general maintenance of work-related equipment, vehicles, and trailers.
• Removes snow from walks and other areas.
• Maintains tree stock prior to planting season.
• Operates and maintains spray equipment to apply appropriate tree pest control measures as needed.
• Balls and burlaps trees as needed.
• Supervises other employees as needed.
• Operates forestry related small engine equipment including chainsaws.
• Repairs irrigation systems.
• These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive.
• Other related duties may be assigned as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of the standard tools, equipment, materials, methods, and practices used in gardening and grounds maintenance work.
• Knowledge of hazards and safety precautions of the work.
• Working knowledge of horticulture, floriculture, irrigation systems, symptoms of plant disease, parasites, and insect pests, and of the means and methods used for their control.
• Skill in the use of standard hand and power equipment employed in the propagation and cultivation of garden and grass areas.
• Ability to push and/or pull and operate a large garden tiller.
• Ability to safely and skillfully use a chainsaw.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 150 pounds with the assistance of another.
• Ability to tolerate outdoors, open grounds, windy conditions, and pesticide and herbicide handling.
• Ability to shovel snow using a three-pound shovel, and lifting up to a ten-pound load 36 inches high and moving it up to six feet.
• Ability to effectively plan, organize, and supervise the work of others.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to acquire and maintain a State of Kansas Commercial Pesticide Applicator certification in General Knowledge Category 9A--Noxious Weeds or a General
• Knowledge 3-A, 3-B ornamental and turf pest control at the department's discretion.
• Ability to maintain a valid Kansas class A commercial driver's license (CDL). If you are a Canadian or Mexican citizen, you will be required to have or obtain a CDL from your home country. 
• An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.

Other Qualifications

Required Experience and Training 

• One year of experience either in horticultural maintenance, tree care, or in landscape maintenance work.

• A valid driver's license.

• A valid Kansas class A commercial driver's license (CDL) within six (6) months of hire. If you are a Canadian or Mexican citizen, you will be required to have or obtain a CDL from your home country. 

• If required, obtain State of Kansas Commercial Pesticide Applicator certification in General Knowledge Category 9A--Noxious Weeds or a General within one year of employment.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need of a sponsorship.  

• A valid Kansas class A commercial driver's license (CDL).

Please note that this position is part of a random drug testing pool, and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.

Offers of employment are contingent upon passing a pre-employment physical, which includes drug screening, and upon satisfactory evaluation of the results of a criminal record check. 

Starting pay for current City employees will be determined by City of Wichita policy or applicable bargaining unit agreement.