Maintenance Technician I - Horticulturalist – Special Improvement Maintenance District

City of Colorado Springs; Colorado Springs (CO); Vor Ort; USD 42.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

City of Colorado Springs is seeking a Maintenance Technician I - Horticulturalist to perform a range of landscape tasks across SIMD areas, including irrigation, turf management, and plant care. You will supervise seasonal staff, lead contractors, and ensure planting areas are maintained with proper pruning, fertilizing, and bed design.

The role requires basic irrigation knowledge, plant ID skills, and the ability to operate varied equipment, with a valid driver's license and high school diploma.

Qualifikationen

• Basic irrigation repair/management of systems.
• Basic greenhouse experience.
• Plant identification.
• Turf and bed maintenance.

Aufgaben

• Adjust irrigation schedules based on system data and manage annual water allotments.
• Coordinate with maintenance technicians to service irrigation components and perform winterization/startup.
• Diagnose and address turf and landscape plant health issues.
• Perform seeding, topdressing, aeration, and maintain landscape beds with proper herbicide use.
• Pick up trash across assigned areas.
• Remove snow from sidewalks using ATVs and other equipment.
• Inspect, maintain, and complete minor repairs on landscape equipment.
• Conduct regular grounds, facility, and playground inspections to ensure safety compliance.
• Review contractor work and direct hourly or seasonal staff.
• Propagate, grow, maintain, and protect plant material from seed to installation, including fertilizing, pesticide application, bed planting, designing xeric beds, and operating mid-sized machinery and seasonal cleaning of plastics.
• Other Duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Irrigation system knowledge

Greenhouse experience

Plant identification

Turf and bed maintenance

Ausbildung

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

CAD / GIS

Jobbeschreibung

Maintenance Technician I - Horticulturalist – Special Improvement Maintenance District

In this position, you will perform a variety of landscape duties in landscaped/irrigated right of ways and medians in the Briargate, Norwood, and Stetson Hills Special Improvement Maintenance Districts (SIMD). In this position, you will also perform a variety of semi-skilled maintenance tasks encompassing the repair and management of commercial irrigation systems, turf/grass management, tree work, shrub bed maintenance, and snow removal. You will also assist/lead the work of seasonal staff and contractors responsible for providing maintenance/repair services. This position will be responsible for maintaining all the enhanced planting areas within the districts. Specialized duties include planting, weeding, mulching, watering, fertilizing, pruning, deadheading, clean-ups, greenhouse propagation, landscape design, plant identification, mapping.

As a Maintenance Technician I, you will:

• Adjust irrigation schedules based on system data and manage annual water allotments
• Coordinate with maintenance technicians to service irrigation components and perform winterization/startup
• Diagnose and address turf and landscape plant health issues
• Perform seeding, topdressing, aeration, and maintain landscape beds with proper herbicide use
• Pick up trash across assigned areas
• Remove snow from sidewalks using ATVs and other equipment
• Inspect, maintain, and complete minor repairs on landscape equipment
• Conduct regular grounds, facility, and playground inspections to ensure safety compliance
• Review contractor work and direct hourly or seasonal staff
• Propagate, grow, maintain, and protect plant material from seed to installation, including fertilizing, pesticide application, bed planting, designing xeric beds, and operating mid-sized machinery and seasonal cleaning of plastics
• Other Duties as assigned

Learn more about this job by reviewing the class specification on the City of Colorado Springs Class Specifications page

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

Knowledge of

• Basic irrigation repair / management of systems.
• Basic greenhouse experience
• Plant Identification
• Turf and bed maintenance

Ability to

• Safely operate a variety of tools, equipment, machinery, and assigned vehicles and trailers
• Recognize and respond appropriately to issues
• Develop and maintain positive, effective working relationships

We value a diverse range of qualifications and experiences. Our organization views each year of further education as equivalent to each year of relevant work experience, and each year of additional relevant work experience as equivalent to each year of required education.

• Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade (high school diploma or GED).
• Possess, or obtain upon hire, and maintain a valid, non-probationary driver’s license not subject to restrictions.

The following qualifications are not required, but they are considered desirable. If you possess any of the preferred qualifications, please include specific details in your application. This information may be used to identify a top group of applicants.

• One year of full-time, professional experience in a related field
• Any applicable horticulture certifications or documented CEU’s
• Knowledge of CAD (computer-aided design) or GIS (Geographic Information System) Systems

Please contact Katie McLaughlin at [e-mail] for any questions about this position.