ICJIA Maintenance Apprentice

Operational Excellence

• Attend all required training sessions, including maintenance, safety, violence prevention, and leadership development.
  
• Support Youth Sports programs, special events, and rentals by setting up and tearing down equipment, tents, bleachers, and garbage cans.
  
• Receive and complete daily work orders based on priority and urgency.
  
• Conduct routine safety checks on buildings, grounds, and equipment, filing safety reports as needed.
  
• Perform general cleaning duties, including sweeping, mopping, window cleaning, restroom sanitation, carpet care, trash removal, and snow removal.
  
• Assist with minor equipment, machinery, and vehicle repairs following Park District maintenance procedures.
  
• Carry out routine maintenance tasks such as painting, building repairs, and custodial work in bathrooms, classrooms, offices, playgrounds, storage units, and scoreboards.
  
• Support field and facility maintenance by mowing grass, trimming trees, clearing brush, and landscaping.
  
• Assist in maintaining and cleaning RPS and Park District playgrounds, stadium sites, and athletic fields.
  
• Help with landscape upkeep around Rockford Public Schools buildings, including bush trimming and general groundskeeping.
  
• Operate tools and equipment such as snow blowers, leaf blowers, drills, and other hand tools safely and effectively.
  
• Complete preventative maintenance tasks and building inspection checklists.
  
• Provide general assistance to the Rockford Public Schools and Park District Grounds Team as needed.
  
• Perform seasonal tasks such as leaf clean-up and snow removal.

Compliance

• Attend weekly staff meetings and training sessions as scheduled.
  
• Follow all departmental safety procedures and participate in required safety training programs..

Professional Relations

• Interact professionally with patrons, customers, parents/guardians, and coworkers.
  
• Maintain positive relationships with internal and external customers.
  
• Conduct regular check-ins and site visits with program participants and workplace supervisors.
  
• Assist customers and program participants as needed.

Must be at least 16 years of age and must be able to work days, evenings, and weekends.

Critical Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Must be at least 16 years of age
  
• Ability to communicate well with patrons, customers and co-workers
  
• Ability to follow direction from facility supervisors and managers on duty
  
• Ability to problem solve in a variety of situations
  
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and demonstrate flexibility as a team player
  
• Ability to work in stressful conditions
  
• Attention to detail in cleaning and maintaining facility to ensure health and safety

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

Medium work:

• • Exerting in excess of 50 pounds of force occasionally
  • Exerting in excess of 20 pounds of force frequently
  • Exerting in excess of 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• This position is primarily stationed outdoors; regular exposure to dirt, noise, and temperature and weather extremes.
• Ability to work under stressful conditions, and problem solve.
• Potential exposure to hazardous materials.