Short-Term Worker - Cemetery

**Position Summary** -------------------- Are you looking for meaningful work outdoors this summer, where every day makes a difference? Join the City of Bozeman is now hiring Cemetery Short\-Term Workers to help care for a beautiful, peaceful space that serves our community year\-round. In this hands\-on role, you’ll work outdoors maintaining cemetery grounds, supporting funeral services, and ensuring visitors experience a respectful, well\-kept environment. **Bargaining Unit:** Not Represented **Fair Labor Standards Act Status:** Non\-Exempt **Work Week:** Monday through Friday 7:00am – 3:00pm. Full\-Time, 40 hours/week. **Length of Season:** Ideally late April \- end of August 2026, with flexibility on either side depending on availability. **Assignment Details:** Not to exceed 90 working days or 520 hours, whichever comes first. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:** * Maintains cemetery grounds including mowing, fertilizing, raking leaves and pine needles, trimming hedges, bushes, and trees, and watering as directed. * Performs irrigation tasks, including irrigating large areas of developed cemetery lands, including connecting sprinkler heads, moving and setting up sprinkler lines and hoses. * Loads and hauls organic material to a compost pile. * Assists year\-round Cemetery staff with the funeral process, including digging, settling, compacting, sodding, and hand watering. * Utilizes City vehicles including pickup trucks, water trucks, and other Cemetery equipment. * Operates a variety of hand and power tools in safe manner. * Interacts with the public and responds to questions and comments in a courteous and timely manner, including referring citizens to designated personnel. * Communicates and coordinates regularly with appropriate others to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of interdepartmental operations and activities. * Performs other directly related duties as assigned. **Minimum Required Qualifications** ----------------------------------- * High School Diploma or GED by employment start date. * This position requires operation of a company vehicle; candidates must be 18 years of age or older and meet all company driving eligibility requirements. * Some related landscaping or maintenance experience is preferred but not required. * Offers for employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of the conditional offer process including, but not limited to a driving record history check, criminal background check, thorough reference checks, and a general internet search. **Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities** --------------------------------------------- * Ability to understand and follow oral and/or written policies, procedures, and instructions. * Ability to communicate effectively with others, both orally and in writing, using both technical and non\-technical language. * Ability to work outdoors for extended periods of times with exposure to varying weather conditions. * Ability and willingness to quickly learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing information and/or technology. * Demonstrates integrity, ingenuity and inventiveness in the performance of assigned tasks. * Consistently performs assignments in accordance with the City’s Core Values of Integrity, Leadership, Service and Teamwork.