Turf Equipment Technician

Essential Duties

• Performs preventative maintenance, inspects, conducts repairs, and maintains all mechanized and motorized vehicles and equipment. Inspects, diagnoses, adjusts, and repairs mechanical defects and/or failures on a variety of golf course vehicles and equipment.
• Works with the Superintendent to prioritize repair and maintenance work.
• Sets up and modifies new equipment as needed.
• Ensures equipment is inspected, fueled, oiled, lubricated, and safely operable.
• Repairs and adjusts engines and cutting mechanisms on various heavy and light mowing equipment.
• Sharpens mowers with grinders.
• Follows preventative maintenance schedules for oil, grease, filters, air, gas, etc.
• Follows safety procedures for using equipment; demonstrates safe and proper use of new equipment, trains maintenance staff in proper operation and maintenance methods of equipment.
• Inspects equipment for operating deficiencies.
• Performs general overhaul and other preventive maintenance on all equipment.
• Performs tasks associated with maintaining properly performing cutting units, including adjusting heights, reel adjustments, grinding wheels, and blades of reel mowers.
• Maintains a clean and well-organized parts inventory room and maintains accurate inventory of all equipment and parts; assists in identifying and ordering parts and equipment as needed.
• Maintains a clean, safe, work environment and adheres to proper recycling and/or disposal methods for various oils, compounds, and other fluids (antifreeze, oil filters, etc.).
• Follows prescribed procedures and uses personal protective gear to ensure a safe work environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

• Working knowledge of electric and gas-powered golf carts, engines, and hydraulics.
• Ability and tolerance to frequently move heavy objects, lifting overhead, pushing, pulling, and moving objects weighing up to 60 pounds.
• Must be able to frequently tolerate repetitive movement and motion including standing, walking, twisting, turning, bending, squatting, kneeling, and crouching.
• Exposure to working outside in Florida temperatures and weather conditions; cold in the winter and extreme heat in the summer.
• Tolerance to moderate noise levels.