Description

The Parks Operator plays a vital role in maintaining the City’s parks, recreation facilities, and public spaces to ensure they remain clean, safe, and visually appealing for community use. This hands-on position is responsible for the mowing and weed-eating of public grounds, performing general facility upkeep, and completing a wide range of landscaping and maintenance tasks. This position requires versatility, a strong work ethic, mechanical aptitude, and a commitment to maintaining public spaces that reflect the City’s high standards for safety and cleanliness.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:

1. Mow and weed-eat Parks and Recreation Facilities.
2. Clean and maintain shops, City vehicles, and equipment storage areas.
3. Perform maintenance on deck mowers, reel mowers, infielders, tractors, and mules. Maintenance includes changing oil and filters, sharpening blades, checking tire pressure, coolant, greasing etc.
4. Help prepare for special events. Some events include Halloween (haunted house), Easter (egg hunt), Fishing Derby, the Valentine's Day Dance, and other special events throughout the year, and may require work on holidays and weekends.
5. Help string and paint soccer fields as needed.
6. Repair leaks in the sprinkler systems, and install or replace sprinkler heads and waterlines when needed.
7. Spray turf-care chemicals (herbicides, insecticides, chelated iron, RoundUp, etc.).
8. Clean and maintain bathrooms and waste receptacles at parks and other facilities. Ensure that these public facilities are functioning and sanitary at all times.
9. Other miscellaneous jobs, as assigned. This may include any of the following: welding, electrical work, painting, mechanical work, plumbing, landscaping, carpentry (building/roof/structure repairs), garbage collection, inspecting playground equipment, hauling trailers and other equipment, installing French drains, aerating fields, brick, rock or stone masonry, laying carpet, cutting trees, splitting wood, and anything else that may be needed to maintain the parks and grounds.

Summary

    QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Two (2) years related experience
• Equivalent education and experience will be considered.

Drug-free Workplace

It is the policy of the City of Maumelle to maintain a work environment free from the unlawful manufacture distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance as defined by the Federal Control Substance Act or similar state statutes and free from the use possession, and effect of alcoholic beverages. The City of Maumelle recognizes that drugs and alcohol impair employee judgment, which may result in increased safety risks hazards to the public, employee injuries, faulty decision-making, and reduced productivity. Therefore, the City of Maumelle expects all employees to be in a state of mind and physical condition fit to complete their assigned duties safely and competently during work hours.

The City of Maumelle complies with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 (City Ordinance 118)

NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION