Senior Landscape Technician

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Salary : $46,762.00 - $72,570.00 Annually
Location : Durham, NC
Job Type: Full time with benefits
Job Number: 25-05511
Department: General Services
Opening Date: 07/21/2025
Closing Date: 8/18/2025 11:59 PM Eastern

Position Description
Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.

Hiring Range: $46,762 to $78,853
Hours: 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m./M-F

The innovative, highly qualified, service-oriented individuals support the City we love. Building and maintaining city facilities and public spaces is what we do. Promoting our enviable quality of life and serving as a foundation of a healthy economy is why we do it. If you're interested in applying your unique skills to meaningful work while growing in your career, our team is for you!A Sr. Landscape Technician is devoted to maintaining and enhancing lawn, beds and landscaped areas along roadways and on City property through the performance technical work and supervision of staff performing semi-skilled and skilled labor. Incumbents perform semi-skilled labor requiring technical repairs, operation of light-duty equipment and power tools and specialized equipment in the application of herbicides, mulch, irrigation, soil amendments and turf improvement inputs (aeration, seeding and bed preparation) and/or leading the work of others performing work related to the field of Landscape Maintenance. This support role may include driving a truck with a trailer and loading, unloading and securing equipment on trailers, and setting up work zones. Incumbents may also assist with general maintenance tasks in addition to their primary assignment. In the growing season (March-November), duties are mostly limited to following an established operational routine. Decisions are limited primarily to carrying out duties, operating assigned equipment and performing work efficiently to meet established standards and deadlines. In the dormant season (December-February), incumbents will participate in snow and ice removal, snow-plow operation, landscape bed, retaining wall, unit paver, and tree installation, mulching, turf improvement activities, tree and shrub pruning, skills training and litter collection.

The Sr. Landscape Technician is responsible for participating in the work assigned to a crew, to include; performing technical work (mowing, edging, trimming, blowing, spraying), following care and custody protocols on equipment and vehicles; operating light-duty equipment and power tools; fueling equipment, and filling/rinsing and properly storing spray-units; maintaining assigned PPE and supplies; reporting daily work metrics to a supervisor (including pesticide logs); and performing related duties.

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Benefits - General Full-Time Employees
Benefits - Part-Time (1,000 hours or more per year)Benefits Part-Time (Average 30 hours per week over 12 month period)
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Where did you first hear about this opportunity?
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If you listed "other" above please give specific web site, organization, or publication.
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Please select your highest level of COMPLETED education.
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How many years of related experience do you have in Landscaping or applied horticulture?
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Do you have a valid, unrestricted, North Carolina driver's license? (If you have a valid license from a State other than North Carolina, you must be willing and able to obtain a valid, unrestricted NC driver's license within 60 days of hire).
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How would you rate your experience level with plant, shrub and tree maintenance?
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Do you have a current and valid North Carolina Commercial Driver's License (CDL)?
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Do you have a North Carolina Pesticide Applicators License with Ornamentals and Turf Categories? (or the willingness and ability to obtain one within 6 months from start date)
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Do you have a MUTCD Roadside Environmental Safety Certification?
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How many years of related experience do you have working in roadside environments?
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How many years of related experience do you have driving a 1-ton truck with trailer (or equivalent) and operating a suite of Landscape Equipment (zero-turn mower, edger, trimmer, blower, tractor)?
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How many years of related experience do you have performing outdoor year-round work?
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Choose the answer that best describes your work history and experience in landscaping and horticulture:
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Please list any education or coursework or training you have had in landscaping, applied horticulture, arboriculture, irrigation, autonomous mowing systems, plant health care or integrated pest management:If no education/training in this area, please put N/A
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Location:
Durham
Job Type:
PartTime