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The City of Norfolk's Department of Parks and Recreation is looking for an Equipment Operator III to join its landscaping crews. This full-time role involves operating various heavy equipment to maintain parks and landscaped areas, providing essential landscaping support to city operations. The position offers a competitive salary range and a signing bonus for new hires, as well as opportunities for professional growth within city services.
Operates heavy equipment to include Surf Rakes (clean beaches), backhoes, front end loaders, dump trucks, and maintainers. This position also operates mowers, tractors, dump trucks, forklifts, and other motorized equipment in grounds maintenance operations.
Maintains grounds and right of ways by collecting and delivering trash containers, mowing grass, raking leaves, digging holes, planting, pruning and maintaining trees and flower beds, mixing and applying chemicals, loading and applying mulch, weed eating, trimming, performing general care of landscape, grading athletic fields for game play, installing and maintaining turf, removing trees, grinding tree stumps, identifying plants and trees, cleaning up job sites, hauling topsoil, grading, removing snow, aerating lawns, cutting grass, trimming trees, removing dead limbs, removing storm damage, cutting back weeds, picking up and removing litter, refuse and debris from vacant lots.
Performs safety checks and minor preventative maintenance on equipment, including but not limited to, checking fluids, changing blades and daily inspections to ensure equipment is safe to operate.
Other duties as assigned.