Seasonal Parks Maintenance

City of Rock Island•Rock Island, IL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Under direct supervision, performs unskilled to semi-skilled work pertaining to the maintenance of Parks and sports fields throughout the City. This role involves a variety of tasks using hand and power tools for grounds maintenance, landscape planting, and facility preparation for special events. The position requires the ability to operate various equipment, interact with the public, and work in diverse weather conditions.

Requirements

Applicants must be a minimum of 16 years old by the date they begin work.
Applicants must possess at the time of interview, or verify the ability to acquire by the date work is scheduled to begin, a valid and unencumbered driver's license to become and to remain employed.
All applicants are required to pass a background check before hire.
Substance screenings are required of all applicants who were not employed the previous year.
Requires the ability to operate and use hand and power tools normally associated with grounds maintenance, landscape work, and sports field maintenance.
Requires the ability to understand and follow oral and written English instructions.
Requires the ability to perform assigned work tasks in a variety of weather conditions.

Nice To Haves

May operate more complex equipment with the proper training or under supervision.

Responsibilities

Perform a variety of tasks using various hand and power tools in the establishment and maintenance of grounds, landscape plantings and their confinements.
Plant, maintain, rehabilitate, and construct landscape areas and features throughout park and municipal landscapes.
Use push, self-propelled and riding mowers, string trimmers, and backpack blowers to maintain grounds.
Collect and remove litter and trash from parks; clean paths, planting beds, fountains, and lots.
Prepare facilities before special events and maintain throughout the event.
Paint equipment and structures as needed.
Drive pickup trucks, motorized carts, riding mowers, tractors, field groomers and small dump trucks.
Repair or replace stone, brick, timber, or other edgings and retaining walls.
Install new plantings and remove old ones; use augers, post-hole diggers, shovels and rakes, tractors.
Assist with clearing storm damage and cleaning flooded areas.
Be personable and responsive with the public.
Other duties as assigned.