Conservation Technician II - III

State/SOS•Dover, DE

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About The Position

The Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery provides a final resting place for eligible veterans and their dependents. The Conservation Technician helps maintain cemetery equipment by diagnosing malfunctions, determining their causes, and repairing a variety of heavy equipment. The position also performs interments and maintains cemetery grounds. The role performs natural-resource conservation and preservation work, including care of plants and grounds, turf management, integrated pest management, and herbicide or fertilizer application. It helps ensure the safe use of state-maintained grounds and facilities, completes maintenance and repairs in multiple trades, and operates marine, land-based, and construction equipment and vehicles. The position may also provide information to the public, assist with responses to storms or other agency-specific situations, participate in special projects, maintain records and inventory-related documentation, and care for tools, equipment, and supplies. Two job requirement levels are listed: Conservation Technician II and Conservation Technician III. The III level includes additional experience requirements, including inventory control.

Requirements

For Conservation Technician II: Six months' experience operating and maintaining motor vehicles, landscaping and groundskeeping equipment, and hand tools.
For Conservation Technician II: Six months' experience in plant life, horticulture, or arboriculture, such as plant growth, pest or disease control, groundskeeping, or landscaping.
For Conservation Technician III: Two years' experience operating and maintaining motor vehicles, landscaping and groundskeeping equipment, and hand tools.
For Conservation Technician III: One year of experience in plant life, horticulture, or arboriculture, such as plant growth, pest or disease control, groundskeeping, or landscaping.
For Conservation Technician III: Six months' experience in inventory control, such as ordering, receiving, tracking, storing, and handling inventory or disbursing materials, supplies, and equipment.
Possession of a valid driver's license that is not suspended, revoked, canceled, or disqualified.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

Diagnose equipment malfunctions, determine the problem, and repair a variety of heavy equipment.
Perform interments and maintain cemetery grounds.
Perform conservation and preservation work, including propagating, seeding, transplanting, cultivating, harvesting, and caring for trees, flowers, shrubs, lawns, crops, and turf.
Perform grounds management, integrated pest management, herbicide and fertilizer application, layout and design, debris management, and assessment of soil and environmental conditions, as applicable to assigned operations.
Help ensure the safe use of state-owned or maintained grounds and facilities by the public and resolve safety concerns or other issues.
Apply conservation and preservation principles and comply with related laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
Complete maintenance and repairs in fields such as plumbing, carpentry, painting, welding, construction, and grounds maintenance.
Operate marine, land-based, and construction equipment and vehicles.
Provide information to the public and respond to inquiries about conservation and preservation efforts and related activities.
Assist with responses to storms or other agency-specific situations.
Participate in special projects and initiatives.
Complete standard forms and applications and maintain records, logs, and reports.
Maintain applicable tools, equipment, and supplies.
Perform other related duties as required.