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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

6

Job Duties:

Lawn Care Technician Duties include, but are not limited to: -Mix pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides for application to trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops. -Fill sprayer tanks with water and chemicals, according to formulas. -Lift, push, and swing nozzles, hoses, and tubes to direct spray over designated areas. -Identify lawn or plant diseases to determine the appropriate course of treatment. -Cover areas to specified depths with pesticides, applying knowledge of weather conditions, droplet sizes, elevation-to-distance ratios, and obstructions. -Start motors and engage machinery, such as sprayer agitators or pumps or portable spray equipment. -Connect hoses and nozzles selected according to terrain, distribution pattern requirements, types of infestations, and velocities. -Clean or service machinery to ensure operating efficiency, using water, gasoline, lubricants, or hand tools. -Provide driving instructions to truck drivers to ensure complete coverage of designated areas, using hand and horn signals. -Plant grass with seed spreaders, and operate straw blowers to cover seeded areas with mixtures of asphalt and straw. Additional Landscaping Duties include, but are not limited to: - Gather and remove litter. - Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes. - Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws. - Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. - Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws. - Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls. - Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage. - Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds. Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds. - Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. - Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs, and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools. - Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers. - Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. - Decorate gardens with stones or plants. - Adjust irrigation water consumption to prevent waste using hand held battery operated dial. - Maintain/repair irrigation systems made of plastic tubing using hand held tools such as hammer and wrench, winterize systems in late fall and initiate systems in spring by manually programming the dial.

Job Classification:

37-3012.00 - Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

- Must be willing and able to tolerate very hot or very cold temperatures. - Must be available entire contract period. - Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds and be able to perform physical labor. - May conduct post-hire, employer-paid drug testing. -Schedule varies (days of the week and shift times). Additional hours may be offered. May be required to work weekends. -All worksite locations are within driving distance of primary worksite location. -Employer will pay the highest of all prevailing wages for all worksite locations throughout the entire period of employment. -Employer may offer a bonus depending on experience and merit. -Employer offers a ride to the primary worksite location to workers living area within a reasonable commute. -Daily Transportation is provided to all worksites from primary worksite. -Employer does not provide housing. -Deductions: N/A

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Thomson Lawn Care, LLC (THO126)

Location:

Lexington, KY 40508

Worksite

Address:

111 Buchanan Drive, Lexington, KY 40508

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-400-25316-402196

Multiple Worksites:

Yes

Date Posted:

11/19/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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