Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
The Park Maintenance I & II positions are responsible for performing a variety of semi-skilled park maintenance activities necessary to maintain our parks.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the preparation and maintenance of the following:
- Turf, sports fields, tennis courts, playgrounds, and other park facilities.
- Ornamental horticulture maintenance including planting trees, shrubs, and annual and perennial flowers, fertilization, seeding, mowing, and sodding and other horticulture needs.
- Trail maintenance including debris removal, grading, and renovation.
- Park pavilions, restrooms, equipment, signs, and assigned buildings. Park grounds through litter pickup and recycling activities, bathroom cleaning, vandalism removal, controlled prairie and wood burns, and hardscape maintenance.
- Perform power and trim mowing in assigned parks.
Qualifications:
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Valid driver's license.
- Ability to work independently in day-to-day operations with general direction from supervisor.
- Able to receive and follow instruction.
- Exposure to pesticides, chemicals, dust, fumes, dirt, loud noise, and insect bites.
- Prolonged lifting, stooping, bending, twisting, standing, and climbing.
- Subject to confined space entry. Will be required to participate in confined space entry training annually.
- Subject to respirator use. Will be required to pass a Quantitative Fit Test annually.
- Manual dexterity and strength to operate power-operated machines and equipment.
- Ability to lift, carry, and/or move objects weighing ≤ 50 lbs on a daily basis. Lifting assistance is required when lifting > 50 lbs.
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