Parks Maintenance Worker I

Performs basic maintenance tasks in parks, park buildings, grounds, open space, landscaped areas and facilities; and does related work as required.

• Operates large diesel gravely mower;
• Operates light and medium trucks;
• Mows and trims grass throughout all City parks, open spaces, trails, playing fields, etc.
• Cleans indoor workshop area;
• Cleans and maintains all recreation and parks facilities, including restrooms, community buildings, fields, courts, swimming pools, trails, and tennis courts;
• Collects and disposes of trash throughout all park and recreational areas on a daily basis;
• Cleans trucks, tractors, lawn mowers, blowers, and other equipment;
• Cleans and maintains picnic areas and pavilions; paints inside and outside of recreation buildings;
• Cleans and maintains neighborhood vest pocket parks and playgrounds;
• Picks up supplies and equipment;
• Operates snow removal equipment and shovels snow;
• Assists Park Maintenance Worker II with projects; and
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

High School Diploma or an acceptable equivalency diploma (GED); and one (1) year of related experience in maintenance or construction.

Special Qualifications:

Possession of a valid drivers license.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Skilled in the use of shovels, rakes, mowers. sprinklers, sprayers, pruning shears, and related equipment;
• Ability to operate a large mower;
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written directions and take standard measurements;
• Ability to operate and repair small/light equipment, such as power tools; and
• Ability to operate and make basic repairs to medium equipment and machinery, such as vehicles or commercial mowers.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS

The work is heavy work which requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing ability: sufficient to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing ability: sufficient to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling ability: sufficient to move about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching ability: sufficient to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling ability: sufficient to perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Dexterity ability: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand.
• Handling ability: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing ability: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling ability: sufficient to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling ability: sufficient to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing ability: sufficient to use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching ability: sufficient to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking ability: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing ability: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping ability: sufficient to bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Visual ability: sufficient to operate heavy equipment and trucks both by day and night, to observe unsafe conditions of roadways, to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, etc.
• Walking ability: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work is performed in an environment with heavy equipment and machinery that could result in bodily harm to self, co-workers or others.