UTILITY WORKER HOURLY

City of Amarillo

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Under direction of Park Foreperson this person performs grounds maintenance duties on all park property located within the City of Amarillo. Maintenance tasks include operating grounds care equipment, irrigation repairs, planting and watering trees & flowers, seeding & sodding projects, light construction duties, cleans restrooms, picnic areas, play courts, and other park facilities. This position works a 20 hour week weather permitting. (Monday thru Friday) with an occasional weekend work if necessary.

Requirements

• Ability to read and write
• Having some prior knowledge of grounds care and construction related work is desirable.
• Valid Texas driver's license preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Assists employees with turf maintenance, park facility maintenance, and ballfield preparations.
• Runs trim mowers, weedeaters, edgers, backpack blowers, small tractors, line markers, hedge trimmers, and miscellaneous hand tools.
• Cleans park restrooms, play courts, stages, wading pools, shore lines, decorative fountains, complexes, undeveloped areas, park facilities, empties trash cans and any other manual labor type jobs deemed necessary by the department.
• Assists employees with minor tree pruning, hedge pruning, and brush removal, helps load and unload trees on trailers.
• Dig holes, cleans ditches for irrigation repair and installation, shovels dirt, hoes weeds, digs tree holes, set out manual sprinklers, and lays sod.
• Assists with concrete work, fabrication work, turf renovations, painting, carpentry, equipment repairs, irrigating and irrigation installation and repair, and other landscape and construction related job tasks.
• Weeds and cleans flower beds and rock islands.
• Cleans walks and pens at zoo.
• On some occasions must keep daily cost sheets and task sheets.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed