Job Summary
With the direction of a supervisor, foreman and/or crew leader, works in public areas such as parks, facilities, rights-of-way, medians, and on special crew assignments depending upon training requirements and operational needs. Performs a variety of maintenance work and operates a variety of light equipment in the construction, operation, repair, maintenance, and replacement of park amenities, facilities, grounds, and public roadway systems. Requires more than usual physical strength and endurance.
Responsibilities
- Performs grounds maintenance work on public lands and rights-of-way including: turf mowing, weed trimming, tree cutting, sport field grooming, and trash collection using tools and equipment;
- Performs inspection, replacement and/or repair of grounds and amenities to ensure safety and operational standards are maintained;
- Spreads soils, mulch, fertilizer, pesticide, gravel, and other materials using hand tools and equipment;
- Fells trees, cuts up limbs, and drags the pieces to a brush chipper. Loads pieces into brush chipper or onto truck;
- Completes a variety of accurate records relating to park, maintenance and daily operations;
- Operates truck with snow blade and salt spreader and operates other snow removal equipment;
- Available for scheduled and emergency overtime and responds as expected when on-call;
- Performs other duties as related or assigned;
- Ensures the proper maintenance of equipment and tools;
Qualifications
- Knowledge of equipment operation, such as: mowers, trimmers, chainsaws, blowers, or any other lawn care maintenance items;
- General knowledge of the methods, practices, tools, and materials used in parks maintenance, skilled maintenance, manual tasks and repair work;
- Skilled to identify occupational hazards;
- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing;
- Skill to operate a motorized vehicle and trailer combination;
- High school diploma or GED required;
- Two (2) full years of full-time experience relating to similar work as outlined above, any equivalent combination of related education, training and experience;
- Must possess and maintain a valid Ohio Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with air brake and tanker endorsements. Employees who do not hold the required CDL at the time of hire must obtain it within six (6) months through the Township's internal training program;
Physical Abilities
- Ability to physically negotiate different types of terrain with proper mobility to control body direction (walk over curbs and obstacles, on gravel, over unimproved paths and roadways, on flat surfaces, concrete, carpet);
- Ability to exert force to lift or move objects of varying weight (up to 50 pounds) and size (lifting equipment and tools, humans, protective equipment);
- Ability and dexterity to work with handheld tools, such as: common hand and power tools, shovels, rakes, hedge clippers, mobile radio, and cell phones;
- Visual acuity to distinguish from short and long distances and define, recognize, evaluate and differentiate objects (seeing written information, messages, signs, warnings safety hazards);
- Auditory acuity to hear, differentiate and evaluate varying sounds (cell phone, radio, or communication equipment, safety warnings) from close and far distances;
- Ability to work for extended periods doing heavy labor;
- Ability to work and operate in extreme temperatures and temperature changes (heat, humidity, below freezing, wind chill).
Pay: $21.10 - $28.89 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid jury duty
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
