Landscape Crew Member

H-2B seasonal job with Mullin Landscape Associates, LLC in St. Rose, Louisiana. Pay: $17.12/hr. Work period: 2027-02-01 to 2027-11-30. Positions: 24. About 36 hours a week. The employer's full description is in English on the official DOL job order.

Perform manual labor to landscape and maintain commercial and residential grounds of property. Operate powered equipment, such as push mowers, zero turn mowers, chain-saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws. Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, shears, hedge or brush trimmers, string trimmers, blowers, stick edger’s and axes. Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges. Our workers do not fell trees or trim/remove above canopy limbs branches. These tasks are limited to subcontracted experienced arborist personnel. Our landscape laborers use pruning saws, pruning poles, electric clippers, brush trimmers and rakes to prune lower level tree limbs/branches or large bushes from ground level only. Apply fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, or trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders under direction of licensed chemical applicator. 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. Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. Plant seed, 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 edger’s. Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features. Install irrigation systems. Irrigation trenches are 6”x6”. Trenches are dug in order to lay pipe for irrigation systems. Shovels and pick axes are used to dig trenches. Maintain irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring. Cultivate lawns or gardens. Clean and maintain tools/equipment and notify management of needed repairs. Gather and remove litter. Job requires being pleasant with others on the job, displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude, and working as a member of a team which includes hearing and speaking. Must be reliable, responsible, and dependable. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities. All work is completed under supervision of a crew leader. Worker maintains sidewalks and driveways by sweeping and removing leaves, grass clippings, dirt, and litter. Worker may use water to remove dirt and maintain the general appearance. Tools used may include brooms, leaf blowers, rakes, brushes, and hoses. Worker performs routine groundskeeping around fountains to maintain a clean appearance. Tools used may include brushes, water, brooms, and rakes. Worker maintains planters and landscaped areas by removing weeds, dead leaves, and litter using mulch, topsoil, potting soil, fertilizers, approved weed-control products, hand pruners, shovels, rakes, hoses, and wheelbarrows. Where the property includes burial sites, worker performs routine groundskeeping to maintain cleanliness and landscaped appearance of the surrounding areas. Tasks may include mowing grass, trimming vegetation around grave markers, removing leaves and litter, edging pathways and burial plots, removing weeds, and collecting fallen branches using lawn mowers, edgers, leaf blowers, rakes, brooms, and pruning shears. Worker maintains other exterior grounds features, including landscaped borders, curbs, and similar property features, to the extent these are part of the assigned groundskeeping responsibilities. Tasks may include removing litter and debris and sweeping using brooms, rakes, shovels, and lawn mowers.

Work period: 2027-02-01 to 2027-11-30. Positions: 24.

Requirements: Must be physically able to stand, walk, crouch, stoop, kneel, reach, lift and/or move up to 80 pounds and tolerate occasional exposure to homeowner's pets. Smoke free workplace. Drug free workplace. Pre-employment, upon suspicion, and post- accident drug testing and background checks will be carried out equally between U.S. workers and H-2B workers at employers expense. Negative results required prior to starting work. Background checks are conducted at the employers expense. Generally we do not employ persons convicted of sex related crimes, theft, violent crimes or drug related crimes. Individual circumstances are taken into consideration. Employer may offer more than the stated work hours depending on weather, business needs, and other conditions. Extreme heat, cold, rain, or drought may affect exact working hours.