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Grounds Specialist

Service Corporation International

CO - Fort Collins, USonsite

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About this role

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

Manages the grounds provided at a cemetery or funeral home location(s). Performs all grounds keeping and maintenance matters on the properties and maintains the overall appearance of a cemetery, mausoleum or funeral home location.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES • Mows grass, plows snow, waters lawns, fertilizes and trims shrubs, tends flower beds and regularly inspects assigned work areas to insure proper standards are maintained

• Operates lawn and grounds equipment including push and power mowers, snow blowers, weed eaters, leaf blowers and other related power equipment

• Removes debris and trash from grounds.  May include turning down vases and removing wilted flowers

• Participates on teams for openings and closings for interments, entombments and inurnments

• May perform disinterment

• May determine the location and layout of individual graves with assistance, complying with verification procedures

• May perform minor repairs to the cemetery and or building systems

• May perform some of the duties associated with cremations such as maintaining inventory and complying with federal and state cremation regulations

• Must follow safety rules and ensure compliance with the operating procedures of corporate, federal, state and local regulations, including OSHA regulations and Safety and Environmental guidelines

• May assist in moving and installing burial vaults

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education • High school diploma or equivalent

Experience • Minimum 6 months relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities • Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including, but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledge hammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer and leaf blower

• Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yard-stick, etc.)

• Ability to work in extreme weather conditions

• Physically agile and dexterous

• Ability to operate equipment in a safe and careful manner

• Ability to effectively work with others to accomplish tasks

• Ability to communicate effectively with associates, contractor personnel and client families

• Basic computer skills to enable retrieving and responding to email communications

Work Conditions Work Environment • Work outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions

• Comply with Field dress code policy

Work Postures • Frequent, continuous periods of time standing, up 6 hours per day

• Climbing stairs to access buildings frequently

Physical Demands • Lifting, pushing, pulling up to 50 pounds

Work Hours • Working beyond “standard” hours as the need arises

• Schedule may fluctuate, if a need arises, to an earlier or a later shift

Compensation $20.00/hr

Benefits Medical * Dental * Vision * Flexible Spending Accounts (health care and dependent care) * Health Savings Account with Company Contribution * Sick Leave * Short-Term Disability * Long-Term Disability * Life Insurance * Voluntary Accidental Death or Dismemberment Insurance * Dependent Life Insurance * SCI 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company match * Employee Assistance Program   

Postal Code: 80525

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-CO - Fort Collins

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