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Greens Keeper
Definition:
The Greens Keeper, under the direct supervision of the Superintendent performs routine manual labor involved in golf course maintenance; this includes the operation of hand tools, small hand powered equipment and light motorized equipment as necessary.
Typical Functions:
The Greens Keeper:
Operates mowers and string trimmers in trimming putting greens, aprons, tees, around trees, fence lines, banks and hillsides; cart path edges; rakes and maintains sand bunkers; maintains water coolers and emptyâs trash receptacles.
Performs regular maintenance of annual and perennial planting beds.
Maintains fuel levels for all types of equipment on a daily basis; reports equipment problems or failure to the equipment manager immediately.
Helps in project work; assists in the repair and maintenance of new greens, tees and fairways; grades and prepares soil base; and installs new sod.
Excavates and back fills ditches and trenches with hand tools as needed in the repair of irrigation components.
Performs other golf course maintenance related duties as directed by his/her supervisor.
Employment Standards:
Requires knowledge of methods and materials used in landscape maintenance work; working knowledge of and ability to use hand tools; ability to operate light motorized equipment.
Requires physical strength (lifting over 75 lbs), stamina and agility.
Requires the ability to follow oral and written directions.
Requires knowledge of and/or the ability to play the game of golf and understand how job performance affects the playing conditions of the golf course.
