Maintenance Worker, Parks & Landscape

Duties

• Performs mowing, weed eating, landscaping, and other similar activities.
• Performs minor building maintenance including lights, painting, pressure washing, and other basic repairs.
• Performs maintenance of parks and facilities including restrooms, equipment, and courts.
• Assists in set-up for City functions, chairs, tables, equipment, etc.
• Monitors and enforces park rules and regulations to the general public.
• In the event of a natural disaster, reports to place of duty.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

Minimums

Education and Experience:High school diploma or equivalent; one (1) year of experience in a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.Special Qualifications:

• Valid Florida Driver’s License with acceptable driving record.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of minor building repair and maintenance.
• Skill in effective communication both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to operate mowers, weed eaters, and other landscape equipment.
• Ability to use simple hand and power tools.
• Ability to use light machinery, hand tools, and power tools.
• Ability to traverse all types of terrain.
• Ability to work outdoors in all types of weather conditions.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex written and oral instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, City Staff members, and the general public.

How to apply

The work is heavy work, which requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Requires standing or sitting for sustained periods of time; walking or moving from one work site to another; manual dexterity to pick, pinch, type, or otherwise work primarily with fingers; mental acuity including the ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes; hearing to receive detailed information and to make the discrimination in sound; and the ability to express ideas by means of the spoken word and have close visual acuity. Additionally, the following physical abilities may be required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Work is typically performed in an environment with equipment and machinery where the employee is exposed to bodily harm to co-workers or others.