Jacob Henry
Jacksonville,IL
Summary
Dedicated laborer with experience at the City of Jacksonville, IL, excelling in landscaping and grounds maintenance. Demonstrated strong attention to detail and safety awareness while enhancing park aesthetics and ensuring cleanliness. Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment, showcasing physical strength and reliability in all tasks.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Laborer
City of Jacksonville, IL
05.2024 - 07.2025
- I worked with a team to maintained all 7 City owned parks in various ways.
- I would weed eat quite frequently
- I would mow occasionally
- Maintained flower beds in various ways such as picking weeds, spraying chemicals, mulching the flower bed, etc.
- Maintained playground areas through the means of weed eating, spraying chemicals, mulching the play ground area, fixing playground equipment, etc.
- Every day we would run trash routes in the morning to make sure that the parks are all cleaned up and ready to go for the new day.
- Finally, there were many other little projects I would be tasked with and I would find the most logical way to perform the task at hand.
Laborer
Future Champions Sports Complex
04.2022 - 06.2025
- Weekends were quite busy at the baseball complex and there were many task that I had to perform to make sure that the day to day operations went smoothly.
- There were two shifts: a opening shift and closing shift. In the opening shift I was tasked with setting up all 6 of the baseball diamonds for the specific age group that was playing, during the middle of the day there would often be field changes so we would have to move the dimensions of the field as well. During the closing shift I would have to round up all trash on to a trailer, clean up all the fields and then take all trash out to the dumpster to get ready for the next day.
- I was also frequently tasked with working at the concession stand where I learned how to treat customers respectfully and work with money.
- When the facility was not in use, meaning no games were being played that day. I would be tasked with various things to do in order to maintain the parks cleanliness. I would weed eat, mow, moved equipment from the storage shed to the facility, etc.
Education
High School Diploma -
Jacksonville High School
Jacksonville, IL05-2025
No Degree -
Lincoln Land Community College
Jacksonville, IL05-2025
Skills
- Willingness to learn
- Attention to detail
- Safety awareness
- Heavy lifting
- Time management
- Job site cleanup
- Customer service
- Physical strength
- Punctual and reliable
- Repetitive work
- Job site organization
- Material handling
- Hand-eye coordination
- Team collaboration
- Illinois Driver's license
- Landscaping
- Lawn and grounds maintenance
Timeline
Laborer
City of Jacksonville, IL
05.2024 - 07.2025
Laborer
Future Champions Sports Complex
04.2022 - 06.2025
High School Diploma -
Jacksonville High School
No Degree -
Lincoln Land Community College
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