Maintenance Worker (Parks)

• Performs a variety of semi-skilled duties in the maintenance, repair, development, and installation of parks fields, grounds, landscapes, lighting, and facilities.
• Operates trucks and other maintenance and construction equipment; maintains and cleans assigned vehicles and equipment; performs traffic control duties.
• Maintains grounds, roadway medians, trails and open spaces by planting turf and preparing athletic fields.
• Operates vehicles and a variety of power-driven equipment such as tractors, generators, mowers, blowers, and weed eaters.
• Mixes and applies fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides under supervision of a licensed Qualified Applicator; when licensed by the State of California as a Qualified Applicator, supervises and instructs other employees in the safe use of pesticides, and keeps accurate logs of chemical uses.
• Plants a variety of shrubs, trees, and flowers; trims hedges, trees, shrubs and flowers; lays sod.
• Inspects, repairs and maintains playground equipment, ensuring all equipment is in a safe operating condition; maintains and inspects park facilities.
• Picks up trash and debris from park grounds; removes graffiti; repairs signs, and vandalized property.
• Services and maintains all park maintenance equipment, including mowers, trucks, tractors, chainsaws and related equipment.
• Inspects tools and equipment for safety and mechanical defects and to ensure they are in proper operating condition; refers maintenance requirements to lead or supervisor.
• Assists with District sponsored functions as assigned by supervisor; provides assistance to other maintenance units as needed.
• Responds to after-hours callouts as assigned.
• Responds to questions and concerns from the general public; provides information as is appropriate and resolves public service complaints.
• Establishes positive working relationships with representatives of community organizations, state/local agencies and associations, District management, District staff and the public.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:
Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

Equivalent to completion of the twelfth (12th) grade;

AND

Two (2) years of semi-skilled maintenance program experience.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Possession of, or the ability to obtain and maintain, a valid class C California driver's license.