The employee will serve as a Gardener at the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System, in Reno, NV. The primary purpose of the position is to provide ground keeping and gardening throughout the facility as assigned. The employee is expected to have skills in gardening and groundkeeper maintenance and upkeep.
Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Performs a full scale of ground keeping tasks to include seasonal planting, fertilizing, transplanting and pruning. Operates a variety of hand and power garden tools such as fertilizer, spreader, portable sparer, hedge trimmers, weed eaters, pruning and shears. Operates, stores and maintains equipment such as commercial pressure, power lawn mowers, edger trimmer, pruners and weed eaters.
Provides corrective action for plant management, insect and disease control. Performs pressure washing driveways, building, exteriors, sidewalks, exterior railing and other miscellaneous landscape features. Operates highly spiraled carpet cleaning equipment, scrubs, strips, waxes and polishes floors using heavy powered scrubbers, buffers, pressure washers, etc. Drives forklifts as needed to transport heavy loads such as soil, plants, pallet and ice melts.
Demonstrates knowledge of the deployment, mixing, application and current laws and guideline of restricted use pesticides. Maintains landscape in a healthy, disease-free and attractive condition. Performs trench digging, minor sprinkler head/risers repair work, raking and other duties associated with normal lawn and flower bed maintenance. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Wednesday - Sunday, 6:00 am - 2:30 pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized.
VHANationalRecruitmentCenter@va.gov · (844)456-5208
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $23.21 – $27.08/hr.
Applications close on 2026-09-04.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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