Parks Maintenance Worker - Seasonal and Part-time Opportunities

Salary : $25.11 Hourly

Location : OR 97124, OR

Job Type : Seasonal

Job Number : 2025-84

Department : Parks and Recreation

Division : MAINTENANCE

Opening Date : 01 / 17 / 2025

Closing Date : 3 / 3 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Pacific

This position is set to close on Monday, March 3, 2025, or until filled. This posting may close any time without notice.

The Parks Maintenance Worker - Seasonal and Part-time Opportunities position falls under the Parks Maintenance Worker job classification. For full description click here :

Examples of Essential Work

• Installs, inspects and maintains park equipment and grounds to ensure safe operating conditions for citizens as required;
• Maintains parks in a clean and safe condition, including picking up trash and maintaining trash receptacles, cleaning and repairing restrooms, and removing graffiti as necessary;
• Maintains park appearance, including mowing, trimming, edging, fertilizing, and watering lawns and other landscaped areas as required;
• Maintains the interior and exterior of park structures, including painting and making minor repairs as necessary;
• Fertilizes turf areas in the parks, including calculating proper amounts of fertilizer, flagging turf areas, and operating tractor to spread fertilizer as required;
• Assists with pesticide application to turf and beds to minimize growth of noxious weeds;
• Installs and repairs irrigation equipment, including installing irrigation pipes, valves, and heads, and repairing brakes and programming controllers and testing systems as necessary;
• Oversees and facilitates events at various sites, including ensuring customers and spectators are following park rules, and opening and closing facilities at appropriate times as required.
• Observes safe work methods and makes appropriate use of related safety equipment as required;
• Operates and maintains light and medium duty equipment and trucks appropriate to the functional area of assignment, including backhoes, front-end loaders, pickups, mowers, tractors, brush chippers, and other related equipment;
• Operates a variety of hand and power tools and equipment related to work assignment as instructed;
• Maintains work areas in a clean and orderly condition, including securing equipment at the close of the work day;
• Keeps immediate supervisor and designated others accurately informed concerning work progress, including present and potential work problems and suggestions for new or improved ways of addressing such problems;
• Manage records and information in any format, in accordance with applicable statutes, regulations and City policy, guidance and records retention schedule;
• Attends meetings and training sessions and reviews publications and audio-visual materials to become and remain current on principles, practices, and new developments in assigned work areas;
• Responds to citizens' questions and comments in a courteous and timely manner;
• Communicates and coordinates regularly with appropriate others to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of interdepartmental operations and activities;
• Performs other directly related duties consistent with the role and function of the classification.

Acceptable Experience and Training

Additional Information

Bilingual incentive pay available

Preference may be given to candidates who are bilingual in Spanish / English and bilingualism is our ideal as opportunities for community engagement abound. Employees who can demonstrate the ability to speak Spanish, or any language spoken by over ten percent (10%) of City residents as documented by the most recent U.S. Census, at a proficiency level determined by a fluency test administered by the City, will receive a monthly premium of three percent (3%) of their regular base pay.

Positions that are considered safety sensitive, including working with children, may be subject to a drug screen before being hired. The City of Hillsboro is a Drug Free Organization that tests for schedule one drugs which includes marijuana.

City of Hillsboro is proud to offer robust benefit packages to employees. Please check out our for benefit guides for our non-represented full-time employees and part-time employees. Benefits may vary for positions identified in Police, Fire, and Library collective bargaining agreements, which can also be found on the Salary and Benefits page.

Please prepare responses to each of the following items. Provide as much detail as you believe will fully describe your experience and training. Applications without answers to supplemental questions will not be considered.Do you understand these requirements?

Work in this position requires a valid driver's license. Do you have a current, valid state driver's license?

We are currently hiring for the following : Seasonal - up to 40 hours per week for up to 6-months at the Gordon Faber Recreation Complex and in parks around the City; varied shifts including nights and weekends.Do you understand the schedule?

What months are you available to work in the upcoming Spring / Summer / Fall?

Please describe any previous experience that you have in landscape maintenance, building maintenance, construction, sports field maintenance, irrigation installation or irrigation maintenance. Please give details regarding the work that was done including tools, equipment, and vehicles that were used in the course of the work. (This can include both paid and unpaid experience.)

What skills, certifications and / or traits do you possess that set you apart from other candidates for these seasonal positions?

Required Question

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