Description/Duties

A Landscape Coordinator performs a variety of activities associated with park and retention basin landscape service and maintenance contracts including preparation, authorization, monitoring, and compliance work within assigned park zones, as well as ensuring materials and supplies (fertilizers, sprinkler parts, grass seed or plants) are issued to the contractors to complete required work. Contracted services typically include landscape maintenance, sprinkler pump maintenance, vector control, aquatic weed control, lighting and electrical repairs, and parking lot sweeping contracts, but can also involve specialized services for tree removal, pruning, or planting, sprinkler system renovation, Motorola sprinkler and lighting control repairs, turf to granite conversions, or pest control. Work also involves responding to citizen concerns and complaints relating to park and retention basin landscape maintenance, and coordinating special projects involving interaction with the community (Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church groups, service groups) such as: coordinating Arbor Day and Earth Day activities, park clean up, and tree planting projects, etc. This class performs related duties as required.
A Landscape Coordinator acts as the City's liaison with private contractors to ensure compliance with terms and conditions of the contracts. Work requires initiative and the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to deal tactfully with the service contractors while ensuring compliance with the provisions of the service contracts. This class is distinguished from the Contract Specialist class by a broader knowledge of the landscape maintenance field and required certifications. Incumbents report to a Parks Maintenance Supervisor, who evaluates work through reports, conferences, and results achieved. The Landscape Coordinator may be subject to yearly rotational stand-by duty and 24-hour call-out. This class is FLSA nonexempt.
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Qualifications & Requirements

Employee Values: All employees of the City of Mesa are expected to uphold and exhibit the City's shared employee values of Knowledge, Respect, and Integrity.
Minimum Qualifications Required. Any combination of training, education, and experience equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in Parks Management, Horticulture Management, Landscape Horticulture, or a related field. Considerable (3 – 5 years) experience in public or private sector contract administration involving landscape and/or parks maintenance.
Special Requirements. Must possess a valid Class D Arizona Driver's License by date of hire or promotion date. Must possess an Arizona Restricted Use Pesticide Certification (Structural Pest Control Commission) in Industrial and Institutional (1), Ornamental and Turf (3), Right of Way (4), by the Arizona Department of Agriculture within six months of hire date. Must meet the qualifications to wear a tight fitting respirator by passing a medical evaluation in accordance with Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1910.134 by hire or promotion date and must maintain certification.
Preferred/Desirable Qualifications. Experience with sprinkler system and pump station function and maintenance techniques is preferred. Possession of a Certification as a Backflow Prevention Tester (American Water Works Association and Arizona State Environmental Technology Training Center), Public Health certification (vector control) by the Arizona Department of Agriculture, and Certification as an Arborist (International Society of Arboriculture) within six months of hire is preferred.