Golf Course Maintenance Intern (INTERNAL POSTING)

• (For individuals in the internship program only)
• Maintains Golf Course and Landscaping around the Golf Course, Clubhouse, and other Club facilities, including parking lots.

Essential Job Functions

• Trims and feeds shrubs and trees; removes cuttings.
• Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds.
• Rakes and blows leaves.
• Mows greens and fairways by operating walk-behind turf equipment.
• All job functions of Equipment Operator 1
• Ability to operate machinery: triplex, fairway mower, rough mower, Sandpro and turbine blower;
• Ability to execute hand watering and fertilization (excluding greens);
• Basic knowledge of golf course setup
• Prepares soil plant beds and establishes plantings by seed or transplants.
• Maintains annual and perennial flowers in aesthetic arrangements.
• Rakes bunkers.
• Loads and unloads materials.
• Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines.
• Installs pipe and backfills excavations.
• Performs other appropriate tasks assigned by the Golf Course Superintendent.

Requirements

Licenses & Special Requirements

• Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greenkeeping
• Flexibility to work weekends, holidays and occasional overtime
• Hardworking, motivated person with positive attitude
• Must be responsible and reliable
• Understands and adheres to all directives within the Lake Nona Golf & Country Club Operating and Lake Nona Personnel Handbook

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Able to work in strenuous weather conditions including extreme heat, humidity, rain and cold.

• This position includes (long periods of) climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling and repetitive motions
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Must be able to navigate through rough and uneven terrain
• Must be able to follow written and verbal instructions
• Must be physically able to do assigned work as outlined above

• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this position.
• The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duty requested by the supervisor.”