Park Maintenance Worker

Park Maintenance Worker

This safety sensitive (SS) entry level employee assists in performing maintenance and support functions at parks, community centers and special events.

Overall duties include the maintenance, safety and beauty of the park grounds, park equipment, vehicles and facilities. This duty is performed daily.

Duties include, but are not limited to: pruning, mowing, weed eating, digging, trail building, cleaning facilities, raking leaves, painting, sweeping, edging, checking oil and grease in small engines and trucks, replacing mower blades, cleaning equipment, cleaning and organizing the park shop. This duty is performed daily.

May arrange chairs, tables, and sporting or exercise equipment in designated rooms or other areas for schedule recreational activities. This duty is performed monthly.

May render emergency first aid as necessary. This duty is performed as needed.

May operate off-road park or cemetery equipment and use hand tools. This duty is performed daily.

May be required to drive park or cemetery department vehicles. This duty is performed daily.

May be required to use appropriate safety equipment for protection of self or the public. This duty is performed daily.

Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Minimum requirement; general educational background without high school completion, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

Valid driver's license.

Outside working environment, wherein there are extremely disagreeable working conditions most of the time (e.g. hot mix paving in constant sun).

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to outdoor weather conditions; regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, walk; regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; and occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; peripheral vision; and depth perception.

The specific duties vary by department. In some parks divisions this position may supervise seasonal workers, inmates and public service workers in the absence of the supervisor. In other situations the Parks Maintenance Worker never has supervisory responsibilities.