PARKS MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

Join our team to help maintain and beautify our parks and facilities. You'll play a vital role in keeping outdoor spaces clean, safe, and ready for events, while making a lasting impact in the community. If you're passionate about working outdoors and contributing to public spaces, apply today!

Under direct supervision of the Parks & Facilities Superintendent, the Park Maintenance Technician performs a variety of semi-skilled duties and tasks involved with park and building maintenance services.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS - Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents of this class. Employees are required to be in attendance and prepared to begin work at their assigned work location on the specified days and hours. Factors such as regular attendance at the job are not routinely listed in job descriptions but are an essential function. Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Maintains, services, and monitors the cleanliness of landscaping, buildings, grounds, irrigation, athletic fields, medians, and general rights-of-way.
• Performs landscape maintenance and repairs at the Town’s parks and facilities including mowing, edging, pruning and removal of trees and shrubs, landscape bed maintenance (weeding, mulching, planting, etc), clearing of brush, seeding, fertilizing, aerating, herbicide and pesticide application, sports field preparation, lighting, and irrigation systems.
• Operates various types of ground maintenance equipment in the maintenance and operations of park properties and other public grounds; skilled in using pickups, trailers, zero turn mowers, tractors, flex wing mowers, and utility vehicles.
• Assists, supports, and helps with the general upkeep and maintenance of all vehicles and equipment used in the performance of maintenance duties; makes minor repairs and adjustments to equipment as needed.
• Repairs, maintains, and ensures the safety of all the Town’s playground equipment, exercise stations, picnic tables, drinking fountains, grills, litter receptacles, benches, bleachers, pavilions, restrooms, and other public areas.
• Performs any other maintenance service duties in the care and keeping of the Parks and Recreation facilities, fields, grounds, and areas.
• Open and close facilities for rentals.
• Ability to work overtime, nights, weekends and holidays as needed.
• Provide care to animals at the Animal Shelter as needed.
• Collect litter along roads and right-of-ways.
• Clean restrooms, kitchens and common areas as needed.
• Performs related duties as required or assigned.