Maintenance Worker - Park Services

Town of Flower Mound; Flower Mound (TX); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team committed to enhancing the beauty and functionality of community spaces. This role involves maintaining parks, athletic fields, and other properties, ensuring they are safe and well-kept. You'll operate various landscape equipment, perform essential maintenance tasks, and contribute to special events. Ideal candidates will have a strong work ethic, a passion for outdoor work, and the ability to handle physically demanding tasks. This is an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact in your community while enjoying the outdoors and working with a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required with valid driver's license.
• Preferred experience in landscape, turf care, and equipment operation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain parks and facilities, operate landscape equipment, and perform routine maintenance.
• Install and repair irrigation systems and playground equipment.

Skills

Turf or Lawn Care Knowledge

Equipment Operation Skills

Safe Handling of Power Tools

Physical Stamina

Ability to Work Evenings and Weekends

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Weed-eater

Chain Saw

Lawn Mower

Commercial Landscape Equipment

Job description

Under direct supervision, performs routine and repetitive tasks to maintain and beautify the parks, street medians, rights-of-way, facilities, athletic fields, and other properties of the Town.

• Operates commercial landscape and turf care equipment, to include: line trimmers, farm tractors, weed-eaters, augers, tillers, tree spades, chippers, stump grinders, welders, chain saws, vehicles, and other light to heavy equipment.
• Performs a variety of duties for trees, shrubs, flowers, etc., to include: planting, cultivating, pruning, removal, selection, shaping, fertilizing, treating for insects, watering, and mulching.
• Prepares flower beds, works in trenches and walks through brushy areas.
• Applies herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides under direct supervision of a licensed applicator; calibrates and maintains spraying systems.
• Interprets spray labels and maintains an inventory of prepared chemicals and applications.
• Collects and disposes of trash in mowing areas, right-of-way areas, median areas, and buildings of the Town.
• Installs and repairs irrigation systems, repairs leaks in control lines and piping, and repairs controllers; checks irrigation systems on a continuous schedule for control of proper operations and performs preventative repairs of irrigation heads and valves.
• Assembles, installs, maintains, and inspects playground and park equipment.
• Prepares and maintains athletic fields during seasonal periods, to include: mowing, marking foul lines, installing and removing goal posts, moving and inspecting bleachers and benches, and maintaining athletic equipment and supplies.
• Performs vehicle inspections and preventative maintenance to Town equipment and vehicles, to include washing, checking, and servicing.
• Assists in preparing for special events, programs, athletic tournaments, and Town functions.
• Works safely in close proximity to high-speed vehicle traffic along medians.
• Adheres to Town, department, and safety policies and procedures.
• Informs supervisor of potential hazards, problem areas, and inquiries of the general public and work activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• A High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) is required.
• Must have a valid state-issued driver’s license and driving record must be in compliance with Town policy.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Related commercial landscape, turf care, irrigation systems, equipment operation, and maintenance experience is preferred.

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES:

• General working knowledge of turf or lawn care.
• Skills in operating small equipment such as weed-eater, chain saw, lawn mower, and hand tools.
• Knowledge of safe handling of small power tools and equipment.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends.

Physical Abilities:

• Ability to talk, read, see, walk, hear, and follow oral and written directions.
• Ability to work in trenches and tight or enclosed areas.
• Ability to walk through brushes and entangled areas.
• Ability to coordinate hands, feet, and eyes necessary to operate and repair equipment and vehicles.
• Ability to perform strenuous physical activities, to include: exerting up to 100 lbs. of pressure; lifting, pushing, pulling, and carrying heavy objects, such as trimmers, mowers, tree limbs, and other equipment and supplies up to 100 lbs. several times per day; shoveling, crawling, bending, kneeling, and digging holes for several hours per day; climbing on and off equipment; and operating vibrating equipment.
• Ability to work indoors, underground, outdoors, in confined spaces, in trenches, on level, slippery, sloping, unstable and muddy terrain, and under constantly noisy conditions; work in adverse environmental conditions, to include inclement weather, e.g., rain, sleet, snow, heat, sun exposure, and hazardous conditions including mechanical, fume odor, dust/mist, chemical, exposure to insects, noxious plants, and snakes.