Park Maintenance Specialist I/II

City of Thornton, Colorado; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Thornton, Colorado, is seeking a Park Maintenance position responsible for maintaining parks, open spaces, trails, rights-of-way, and medians. Work includes turf care, tree and shrub maintenance, and seasonal tasks such as snow removal and litter pickup.

Roles vary from entry-level to more independent work; incumbents may lead crews and supervise in the absence of a supervisor, with opportunities to participate in the Naturally Thornton program conversions and irrigation modifications.

Qualifications

• Performs park maintenance duties including waters, mows, weeds, trims, renovates, and fertilizes turf areas.
• Maintains trees, shrubs, bushes, and flowers and clears debris from rights-of-way, sidewalks, sports fields and courts.
• Assists with snow removal and ball field maintenance as described in the essential functions.

Responsibilities

• Operates and maintains equipment to support park upkeep and turf management.
• Trains crew members on basic duties and safety practices when needed.
• Leads a crew in the absence of a supervisor and ensures tasks are completed independently.

Job description

Under specified supervision, performs a variety of duties maintaining parks, open space, trails, municipal grounds, rights-of-way, medians, and roundabouts; or a variety of arboricultural duties to include the care and maintenance of trees, shrubs and/or flowers.

Positions in this class are flexibly staffed and are normally filled by advancement from the lower level or, when filled from the outside, require previous and directly related experience.

Park Maintenance Specialist I:

Under general supervision, incumbents assigned to this class are expected to perform the full range of work assigned to this class and to work with independence and initiative.

Park Maintenance Specialist II:

Under direction incumbents work independently, exercising judgment and initiative. Incumbents may train employees on duties and safety practices, and lead a crew in the absence of a crew leader or supervisor.

Essential Functions

(Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills and other characteristics. The list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class.)

Performs park maintenance duties including various combinations of the following: waters, mows, weeds, trims, renovates, and fertilizes turf areas; plants, waters, edges, prunes, and removes trees, shrubs, bushes, and flowers; clears snow, leaves, and debris from rights-of-way, sidewalks, sports fields and courts; empties trash receptacles and transports rubbish to landfill.

Performs maintenance on the ball fields including repairing batter boxes and pitching mound areas, removes litter, sweeps dugouts, cleans bleachers and dugouts; performs infield maintenance including blowing off turf area bordering the infield, hand raking perimeter, edges, scarify, nail drags and safety drags infield; transports equipment.

Performs conversions for the Naturally Thornton program. This includes removal of bluegrass, preparing a new seedbed, reseeding the area, mowing, modifying irrigation