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  • Posted: Sep 27, 2025
    Deadline: Oct 12, 2025
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  • Vibrant, multicultural and dynamic, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) shares the pace and energy of cosmopolitan Johannesburg, the city whose name it carries. Proudly South African, the university is alive down to its African roots, and well-prepared for its role in actualising the potential that higher education holds for the continent's development. UJ h...
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    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

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