Sports Maintenance Worker I

Salary : $16.10 Hourly

Location : Kissimmee, FL

Job Type : Full-time

Job Number : 02444

Department : Community Development

Division : Austin Tindall

Opening Date : 02 / 20 / 2025

Closing Date : 3 / 6 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Eastern

General Description of Duties

NOTE TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS : INTERNAL CANDIDATES IN THE SAME CLASSIFICATION AND / OR PAY GRADE AS THE POSITION POSTED WILL NOT RECEIVE A PAY ADJUSTMENT IF SELECTED.

Under general supervision, the purpose of the position is to perform general maintenance, grounds keeping, and custodial work in the assigned functional area. Employees in this classification function at entry level and are responsible for accomplishing a daily routine of general and preventative facilities maintenance and repair tasks to provide employees and the general public with environmentally safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient public buildings, roadways, and grounds. Employee has knowledge and proficiency gained through training and experience. Performs related work as directed.

Essential Job Functions

The list of essential functions, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. It is not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

• Performs custodial tasks, e.g., emptying and cleaning waste receptacles, washing windows, dusting and polishing furniture, cleaning vents, air filters, fans, and walls, and changing light bulbs.
• Utilizes appropriate chemicals and cleaners safely and effectively to ensure employee and public safety.
• Performs a variety of grounds maintenance tasks, e.g., edging, mowing, trimming, waste and litter removal, fertilizing, laying sod, raking, spreading seed, planting foliage, and shrubbery, aerates sports fields, lawns, and soils, trimming and maintaining the landscape.
• Operates various lawn care equipment, i.e., manual and riding lawn mowers, sports turf mowers, sand pros and tractors, sod cutters, trucks, weed-eaters, trimmers, edgers, and blowers.
• Utilize fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and pest control chemicals according to prescribed safety labels.
• Operates and maintains irrigation and drainage systems.
• May utilize a wide variety of manual, gas, and electric powered hand tools, e.g., hammer, shovel, rakes, screwdrivers, wrenches, digging bars, chainsaws, chemical sprayer leaf blowers, weed eaters, hedge trimmers, and edgers.
• Responds to emergency situations in order to confine, resolve, or prevent injurious or otherwise hazardous conditions, i.e., fallen debris, spills, broken windows, and broken locks.
• Performs minor maintenance and repairs on facilities, structures, equipment, sidewalks, drainage, and other County property in one or more of the skilled and semi-skilled disciplines, e.g., plumbing, masonry, carpentry, flooring, irrigation, electrical.
• Participates in work-site safety set-up, e.g., preps work areas; sets barricades and cones; conducts traffic control in accordance with uniform work zone safety standards; flags traffic.
• Participates in the set-up and removal of tables, chairs, stages, etc., for daily meetings and classes.
• Cleans equipment and tools after use and maintains cleanliness and order in storage areas.
• Organizes and maintains an inventory of maintenance supplies and tools.
• Painting of facility fields, buildings - both exterior and interior, doors, etc., as needed.
• Set up the layout of fields for the various sports that the facility hosts.
• Reports equipment malfunctions and facility maintenance needs to immediate supervisor.
• Performs duties as assigned / necessary which are related, or logical in assignment to the position.
• May perform basic electrical assignments.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Experience / Qualifications :

Miscellaneous :

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

PHYSICAL DEMAND REQUIREMENTS :

Physical Demand : Heavy

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS :

Osceola County offers a comprehensive benefits package to fit the needs of our employees and their families. For additional information and details, visit the page.

Are you a U.S. Military Veteran?

Are you electing to claim Veteran's Preference? (If electing to claim Veteran's Preference, be sure to complete the Veteran's Preference Eligibility Form located on the home page of NeoGov.)

Do you possess a High School Diploma or GED?

Briefly list and explain your years of related experience working with grass and landscaping. (Experience must be demonstrated in the "Work Experience" section of the application.) If none, list N / A.

Please list any lawn care equipment you have used.

Do you possess a valid Driver's License? If yes, what state?

Required Question

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