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Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

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UMASS Amherst Skilled Laborer II in Amherst, Massachusetts

AMHERST Skilled Laborer II Job Summary Provides the care and maintenance of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowerbeds, walks, roadways, and parking lots. Minimum Qualifications Massachusetts Class 2B Hoisting License. Minimum Class D Driver\'s License. Must possess at least one (1) year of work experience in landscape maintenance. Must possess at least one (1) year of full-time or equivalent part-time experience in operating multi-purpose vehicles with large, complex attachments and/or in organizing tasks and implementing designs for horticultural and other grounds projects. Ability to functionally supervise other employees. Ability to work effectively in the identification, planting, care, maintenance, and trimming of plant materials, including annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. Ability to transplant plant material. Ability to perform complex landscape operations. Working knowledge of types and uses of common hand tools. Ability to perform manual labor of a semi-skilled nature. Ability to use and make minor repairs to small tools and simple mechanical equipment. Ability to operate tools used in landscape maintenance, including chain saws, string trimmers, etc. Ability to operate light dump trucks and related equipment. Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions. Ability to perform manual labor for extended periods and under varying climatic conditions. Ability to operate landscaping equipment. Ability to dig, climb ladders, and perform repeated heavy lifting. Preferred Qualifications Massachusetts Pesticide Applicator\'s License. CDL Class B with Air Brake Endorsement. Essential Functions Practices and promotes excellent customer service in the workplace. Meets routinely with customers and Customer Service Representatives to determine their needs. Implements new approaches to promote and assure quality improvements and exhibits a clear commitment to the diverse needs of customers. Operates multi-purpose vehicles with large, complex attachments, including edgers, sod cutters, riding mowers, tractor-mounted flails/brush hogs, hydraulic tree spades, tractor-mounted spreaders/sprayers, and high-speed chipper grinders. Switches and installs attachments such as mowers, plow blades, forks, leaf catcher buckets, and vacuum cleaners to tractors, trucks, and other multi-purpose vehicles in order to equip vehicles for grass cutting, roadway cleaning, snow removal, and other grounds operations. Organizes tasks and disseminates work assignments for various grounds operations. Implements horticultural and landscape designs for special events and campus plant displays. Identifies repair and replacement needs by observing and evaluating equipment, sprinkler systems, parking areas, fields, and various grounds and landscape areas.

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