Groundskeeper

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

Participates in openings and closings for interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterment as well as the installation of memorials and markers. Performs grounds and facilities maintenance.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• •Performs openings & closings for burials, entombments and inurnments
• •Sets, installs, and assembles foundations, memorials, and markers
• •Installs outer burial containers
• •Handles and completes work orders from client families as it pertains to individual grave and marker maintenance
• •Responds to and completes requests for service/work orders
• •Conducts Interment Verification Procedures
• •Conducts 25 foot radius preparation for burials and ensures the area is clean and neat
• •Fills grave, tamps, seeds or sods
• •Adheres to all Company safety rules and Universal Precautions
• •Maintains and protects Company assets by performing regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and facilities
• •Maintains a clean and orderly work area
• •Completes Dignity University courses and other training as assigned
• •Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise
• •Performs all other duties as assigned by management

MINIMUM Requirements

Education

High School degree or equivalent

Experience

Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment

Licenses

Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment/vehicles

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, leaf blower, chain saw and pump
• •Ability to operate mechanical equipment including, but not limited to, a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailed, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper and backhoe
• •Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yardstick, etc.)
• •Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates, contractor personnel and client families Ability to lift heavy objects up to 30 lbs.
• •Ability to work in various adverse weather conditions
• •Understands safety and security issues and implications
• •Mechanical aptitude

• Compensation:
• Salary: $21.50/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

• As part of your pre-employment background check, your criminal conviction history will be verified given that this role requires the following material job duties: Working around and/or handling deceased and working around families and colleagues
• Convictions creating a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with the identified job duties may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.

Postal Code: 91016

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-CA - Monrovia