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General Assistant II (P14) (Gardens & Grounds & Sports Fields) (Facilities Management: Campuses) (X2 POSTS) (Re-advert) at University of Johannesburg

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification Bachelors
  • Experience
  • Location Gauteng
  • City Johannesburg
  • Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied&nbsp

General Assistant II (P14) (Gardens & Grounds & Sports Fields) (Facilities Management: Campuses) (X2 POSTS) (Re-advert) at University of Johannesburg

General Assistant II (P14) (Gardens & Grounds & Sports Fields) (Facilities Management: Campuses) (X2 POSTS) (Re-advert)

Responsibilities:

Includes Gardens & Grounds and Sports fields

Gardens and Grounds: Lawn Care

  • Mow lawns, fields, and other grounds to prepare and fertilize the soil.
  • Plant, cultivate, and maintain lawns.
  • Operates push or riding power lawnmowers, sprayers, backpack leaf blowers, and hand and power tools.
  • Rake leaves and remove trash and debris from assigned areas.
  • Sweeps walkways, entryways, and grounds.
  • Makes routine adjustments and minor repairs.
  • Prune shrubs to maintain desirable limb structure.
  • Removes dead, diseased, or broken branches using hand saws and prunes.
  • Removes debris and litter from grounds and empty trash cans on an as-need basis.
  • Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters and other ground features.
  • Plan or cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens.
  • Cares for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.

Garden & Grounds: Plant Maintenance

  • Prune and trim trees, hedges, and shrubs, weed, rake, and water grounds.
  • Design, plants and waters specialty gardens.
  • Maintains plants and shrubs in the garden nursery including watering, pruning, and fertilizing.
  • Applies insecticides, to control fire ants throughout the garden.
  • Water lawns, trees, and plants using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans.
  • Irrigate lawns, trees, and plants.

Tools, and equipment safety

  • Makes routine adjustments and minor repairs to keep equipment in safe working order.
  • Assists in the preparation, set-up, and marking of sporting grounds and other facilities as assigned.
  • Assist in the installation and repair of ground equipment, irrigation lines, and sprinkler heads.
  • Cleans outdoor storage areas.
  • Maintains and repairs a variety of hand and power-operated garden tools and equipment, such as seeders, spreaders, edgers, hedge trimmers, pruning, shears, sprayers, spades, hoes, rakes, and mowers.
  • Operates ground maintenance equipment.

Landscaping

  • Follows planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage.
  • Decorate indoor or outdoor spaces.
  • Plant greenery to improve landscape appearance.
  • Provide information to clients about landscaping services.
  • Build, form, mix, and pour cement to form garden borders.

Health and Safety

  • Conveying and handling tools, equipment, and materials.
  • Cleaning and workplace, workshop, and equipment, as well as removing waste.
  • Selecting, using, and maintaining basic hand tools and materials safely.
  • Maintaining basic health, safety, and environmental measures in the workplace.
  • Maintaining good housekeeping.
  • Wearing protective clothing and equipment as prescribed.

Apply by: 10 October 2025

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to University of Johannesburg on jobs.uj.ac.za to apply

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