What are the responsibilities and job description for the Seasonal Maintenance Worker position at City of Rosemount?
Work schedule may vary depending on weather, time of year, and student status with the potential to work up to 40 hours per week on a Monday through Friday basis, approximately April through October. General working hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; the City is willing to consider flexible schedule options.
Position open until filled. First review of applications will be on Wednesday, March 12th.
- Operate equipment to maintain and drag the City ball fields for daily games and tournaments.
- Operate large rotary mowers along with smaller trim mowers and weed whips to maintain the City parks and facilities.
- Assist with street maintenance and repairs.
- Assist Horticulturist to maintain city gardens, landscaping and plantings with pruning, weeding, watering, mulching, lifting, and digging.
- Operate maintenance and irrigation equipment in city landscaping and gardens, including flower baskets, pots, planters, park signs, and monument signs.
- Perform forestry duties including tree planting, pruning, weeding, watering, mulching, and tree removal.
- Assist with tree inventory (species identification and disease/damage detection) using advanced mobile technology.
- Perform janitorial duties throughout the park system, buildings, and grounds, including the pickup/removal of garbage and cleaning of public restrooms.
- Assist Utility Maintenance Workers with catch basin cleaning, sanitary sewer cleaning, and gate valve inspections/maintenance.
- Work with little or no direct supervision on assigned weekends and holidays.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Must be at least 16 years of age.
- Valid Driver's License
- Ability to lift/move minimum weight of 50 pounds.
- Ability to operate or be trained to operate a variety of equipment as mentioned above.
- Ability to perform heavy manual tasks for extended periods of time.
- Ability to work outdoors for entire shift.
- Formal education or practical experience in mowing, turf maintenance, horticulture, landscape maintenance, and irrigation.
- Formal education or practical experience in urban forestry, tree maintenance, tree species identification, and disease/damage detection.
- Some knowledge of the tools, methods and materials used in general maintenance.
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the public.
- Ability to operate a variety of motorized vehicles and equipment in a safe manner.
- Physical strength sufficient to do strenuous laboring tasks under varying weather conditions.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. The employee is frequently required to walk, sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, hand, feel or operate objects; and reach out with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee can occasionally be required to stand for extended periods of time. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places; and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed and are not all inclusive. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job may change.
Status
Seasonal non-exempt
The City of Rosemount is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Salary : $16 - $19
