• Ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience.
• Maintain standards established by the First Presidency.
• Perform gardener/grounds keeping work, maintaining and caring for landscaped areas, sidewalks, driveways, building entrances, and other assigned areas.
• Provide direction and technical assistance to gardeners and volunteers and partner with third party support, as necessary.
• Resolve questions and problems related to grounds.
• Typically responsible for 8 to 14 acres

• Know the site and its characteristics, review landscape plans, understand which plants grow best in the local climate, soil conditions, and their characteristics.
• Ensure that all proper licenses are acquired and maintained as required by local law.
• Keep current on latest developments, new equipment, methods of cultivation, weed and insect control.
• Develop and supervise grounds crew by hiring, training, scheduling, assisting in Performance Management and supervising the ongoing activity of grounds personnel.
• Maintain the grounds building and other such facilities. Ensure they are kept clean and in good repair.
• Responsible to see that walks, driveways, parking areas, fences, and grounds are kept clean, safe, weed, and leaf free. Remove snow as needed.
• Report needed repairs to the building engineer.
• See that schedules for proper watering, fertilizing, mowing, and weed and insect control on all lawn areas are carried out.
• Prepare requests for supplies and equipment as necessary to properly care for grounds as assigned. Assures that equipment and chemicals are properly used, safely repaired, serviced, stored, and accounted for.
• Follow landscape plans for flower beds, foundation and border plantings as season requires to assure desired appearance throughout the year.
• Prune trees and shrubs as needed to remove dead or diseased branches and to control their growth, size, and shape.
• Stay within Budget

• Completed Bachelor's Degree
• Three to five years of experience in landscape gardening, horticulture, agriculture, grounds maintenance or related field.
• Experience working in a temple is preferred.
• Degree or certification in landscape gardening, horticulture, agriculture, grounds maintenance or related field preferred.
• One to two years of supervisory experience.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs/23 kgs