(1) Parks Maintenance Worker - Sanitation
About The Position
Under general supervision, performs a variety of manual and semi-skilled work in the maintenance and construction of grounds, parks, buildings, and recreational areas for the City. This role involves performing essential services, including working during extreme weather and natural disaster events. Specific duties include ensuring restroom cleanliness and stocking, gathering and dumping refuse, cleaning grounds, power washing facilities, painting, performing basic plumbing and electrical tasks, operating industrial trucks, clearing storm drains, removing trees and limbs, raking leaves, maintaining fall surfaces, shoveling snow, spreading ice-melt, and assisting with special projects for various city departments.
Requirements
- High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
- Two (2) years of related experience and/or training.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Must have and maintain a valid driver’s license.
- Regularly required to use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
- Frequently required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, taste or smell.
- Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Nice To Haves
- Position may require a commercial driver’s license.
Responsibilities
- Supervising temporary employees when assigned duties in Sanitation.
- Working with Parks Maintenance Manager, Foreman, and department crew leaders to oversee operations during inclement weather events.
- Ensuring restrooms are clean, sanitary, and properly stocked.
- Gathering and carrying containers and dumping refuse onto a truck.
- Cleaning grounds and removing litter.
- Power washing pavilions, play structures, and walkways.
- Keeping park facilities, trails, electrical boxes, and city property painted and free of debris or graffiti.
- Performing basic plumbing and electrical tasks.
- Operating an industrial truck to transport materials within the City.
- Keeping storm drains and culverts free of debris.
- Removing dead or damaged trees or tree limbs.
- Raking and/or bagging leaves.
- Maintaining fall surface under play structures.
- Shoveling snow from walks, biking trails, bridges, city parks, and city parking lots and spreading ice-melt.
- Assisting with special projects performed by the Parks and Recreation Department, DBI, Visit Bentonville, including construction projects, ballfield preparations, special events or programming, and holiday lights display.
- Responding to city services during inclement weather events as an essential services position.
- Receiving certification for forklift, aerial lift, and other equipment.
- Receiving certification for CPR, AED, and other certifications as needed.
- Completing daily work orders.
- Meeting yearly goals.
- Maintaining tools and equipment used in the performance of duties.
- Attending meetings and trainings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
