Step into the role of Senior Parks Maintenance Technician and help keep Durango’s parks beautiful and well-maintained. As a member of our Parks Division, you will help
keep our parks, trails, cemetery, urban forest, and open spaces in excellent, clean, and safe condition for everyone to enjoy. You’ll work with a variety of equipment—from power tools to heavy machinery like backhoes, dump trucks, and farm tractors—to maintain our city’s greenery, landscapes, irrigation systems, and parks facilities. This outdoor role offers diverse daily tasks and the satisfaction of making a visible, positive impact on our community’s quality of life.
City of Durango’s Trail to Excellence
The City of Durango is a purpose-driven organization with more than 400 full-time and 300 part-time and seasonal employees across 15 departments, all working together to provide a wide range of services that keep our community running every day. From public safety and utilities to parks and recreation, our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality services that enhance the lives of all who live, work, and visit here.
At the city, we focus on continually improving how we work and serve the community. This effort is called the Trail to Excellence (T2E), and every employee plays a part in it. Whether you work outdoors, in an office, or lead a team, your daily efforts connect to the city’s mission of providing excellent service and reaching the city’s vision of being a multigenerational community that is authentic, diverse, engaged, thriving, and environmentally responsible. The full details of this vision are outlined in the city’s strategic plan.
As a member of our team, your work will be meaningful because:
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Your ideas help shape citywide improvements.
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The work you do ties directly into measurable goals.
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You'll be part of a system that values collaboration, innovation, and results.
We're looking for team members who share our core values of teamwork, dependability, professionalism, service, respect, innovation, and wellbeing — and who are excited to make a difference in the community we serve.
