Maintenance Worker- Parks

Temple Texas•Temple, TX

23h•Onsite

About The Position

This role encompasses multiple crews focused on maintaining City properties, including parks, buildings, facilities, and ballfields. Responsibilities range from custodial tasks like cleaning restrooms and removing trash to landscaping duties such as mowing, weed eating, and hedge trimming. The position also involves maintaining and repairing various park amenities, operating and performing minor maintenance on equipment, and supporting special events. The role requires adherence to City policies, procedures, and safety guidelines.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent
One (1) year of experience in custodial maintenance or related area
One (1) year of experience in maintenance or operating related equipment
Familiarity with common landscaping equipment
Valid driver’s license

Nice To Haves

One (1) year of park maintenance experience
One year experience in landscape, ballfield, or horticulture maintenance or related field
Basic computer skills in Microsoft applications

Responsibilities

Removes trash and debris from all park facilities
Cleans, sweeps, mops, and sanitizes all parks restrooms including toilets, sinks and light fixtures, mirrors, walls & floors
Keeps tools and supplies clean and organized
Maintains adequate inventory of cleaning items
Completes daily reports, and documents vandalism and graffiti
Identifies and reports maintenance repair items to supervisor
Supports special events, both City and private, and help with the set up and take down of the portable stage
Prepares and maintains athletic fields and sport courts to include dragging and striping fields, setting bases, mowing, weed eating, cleaning restrooms and trash removal
Maintains, repairs area parks and facilities to include: mowing, weed eating, edging, tree pruning, play structures, pavilions, fencing, lighting, irrigation systems, sidewalks, parking lots, restroom cleaning, tree planting, and trash removal
Operates and performs minor maintenance of mowers, edgers, blowers, trucks, trailers, utility vehicles, infield rake, and hand tools
Identifies maintenance repairs and turns in related requests to supervisor
Completes and submits required paperwork
Assists with preparation of special events, tournaments, and league practices to include the set-up, staging, and clean-up
Mows, trims, and edges assigned areas along roadsides and City owned property
Performs general park maintenance to play structures, pavilions, fencing, lighting, irrigation systems, restrooms, sidewalks, parking lots, playground equipment and concrete work
Removes ground litter before mowing from assigned area
Drives to work sites and ensure proper storage of equipment during transport
Completes daily paperwork including maintenance trac, equipment inspection forms, time/leave requests
Works special events as assigned