Parks Maintenance Worker

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other responsibilities and duties may be assigned:

• Keep park facilities, grounds, buildings, campgrounds, and trails neat, clean, and safe. Inspect and clean shelters, toilets, trash and recycling containers, picnic tables, camp sites, and fire rings.
• Provide manual labor in the construction, repair and maintenance of park facilities, buildings, campgrounds, trails and landscaped areas.
• Assists in supervising part time employees.
• Performs routine inspections of all park facilities, buildings, grounds and trails to ensure proper care and maintenance and make recommendations for their improvement.
• Performs park and campus grounds maintenance including mowing, trimming, and snow removal.
• Performs basic landscape work including planting and maintaining of trees, shrubs, flowers and grass.
• Performs routine patrol of the park system and enforces park policies and rules, this may be completed on evenings or weekends as assigned.
• Assists with monitoring park reservations.
• Safely operates light and heavy equipment to perform road and bridge maintenance functions.
• Drives truck to transport crew and equipment to work site.
• Drives tandem axle truck or motor grader for snow removal equipped with adjustable snowplow, wing, sander, and underbody. Operates snow blowers and dozer.
• Drives tractor with mower attachment for grass, weed, and brush control.
• Operate front end loader, backhoe, tandem truck, dozer, snow blower, water truck, skid loader with attachments, clean ditches, etc.
• Check roads for hazards, traffic problems and condition of signs, general condition assessing needs.
• Picking up litter along roads.
• Spray and mow weeds and trees in the right of way.
• Upkeep of various county shops and grounds.
• Tree cutting and brush control in county parks and along county roads using chainsaws, high lift, wood chipper, skid loader and trucks.
• Thawing out culverts using required equipment.
• Performs equipment inspections as required by Minnesota law and county policy.
• Performs routine maintenance on all types of light and heavy equipment.
• Performs other comparable duties of a like or similar nature as assigned.
• Excellent customer service skills, especially with individuals utilizing the county park system.
• Primary work location may vary by season.

Qualification Requirements: 

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and two years of related experience in highway maintenance and construction work including operation and maintenance of equipment related to highway maintenance and construction. See Certificates, Licenses, Registrations below.

Preferred Experience and Training:  Previous park maintenance, carpentry, or landscape experience desired. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 

Language Skills: 

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information one-on-one situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical/Computer Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and judge depth and density.  Basic computer skills are required.

Reasoning Ability: 

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several variables in different situations.  Ability to use independent judgment to analyze a variety of changing conditions and determine the course of action necessary to continue, complete or initiate a wide range of work assignments.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: 

Valid Class B Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with airbrake and satisfactory driving record.

Pesticide Applicator License

First Aid and CPR trained within one year.

Other Skill and Abilities:

Skilled in operating heavy and light trucks and equipment, hand equipment and other miscellaneous department tools, materials and equipment.  Skilled in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with department personnel, other county employees, and the public.
Ability to manage own priorities and schedule in area of responsibility or assigned geographic area.  Ability to represent the county in a professional manner to all internal and external contacts when doing the county's business.

Physical Demands: 

This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 100 pounds of force;  work regularly requires walking, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel, climbing or balancing and reaching with hands and arms, frequently requires standing, sitting, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, pushing  or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions and occasionally requires tasting or smelling; work requires distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, assembly or fabrication of parts within arms-length, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work frequently requires working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to outdoor weather conditions and exposure to vibration and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions, working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to extreme cold, exposure to the risk of electrical shock, wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a loud noise location (e.g. grounds maintenance, heavy traffic).

Selection Process:

Applications will be accepted until 4/20/25

First round interviews will be held via technology on: 4/24/25

For those selected, second round interviews will be held in person on: 5/6/25

Renville County Benefits Information:

https://www.renvillecountymn.gov/employment/benefits/