Park Supervisor I - Promotional Only

City of St. Louis; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

City of St. Louis is seeking a Park Supervisor I (Promotional Only) to oversee park grounds maintenance and staff. You will plan, assign, and direct crews responsible for mowing, weeding, field prep for games, cleaning facilities, litter removal, and event setup.

This role requires strong leadership, safety awareness, and the ability to train staff, maintain records, and respond to public inquiries. A valid driver's license is required, and prior supervisory experience in parks or maintenance is

Qualifications

• Two years of experience leading and participating in the landscaping, maintenance and care of parks, playgrounds and related public areas.
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis.
• Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, assign and direct the work of other agency employees.
• Counsel subordinate staff and communicate policies and guidelines.
• Maintain documentation for corrective actions and performance appraisals.
• Coordinate hiring, transfers or promotions; train staff to meet performance standards.
• Handle customer complaints and coordinate for special events.
• May operate grounds keeping equipment as needed.
• Complete and file attendance records, repair requests and accident reports.

Skills

Supervision

Park maintenance

Planning & organizing

Staff training

Communication

Job description

Job Description - Park Supervisor I - Promotional Only (260000RK)

Job Description

Park Supervisor I - Promotional Only - ( 260000RK )

Description

Position Grade: 210G

Department: Parks Division

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1839

Location: St. Louis, MO

Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.

Incumbents in this position are responsible for supervising park grounds maintenance and personnel. Duties include planning, organizing, assigning and directing subordinates who are cutting grass, weeding, rolling and lining athletic fields, cleaning comfort stations, removing litter, debris and snow, as well as setting up for special events.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• The supervisor has authority to plan, organize, assign and direct the work of other agency employees, and is accountable for the work performance of those employees.
• Confers with and counsels subordinate staff to exchange information and/or explain work policies, procedures and guidelines; and identifies work-related problems, problem characteristics, and impacts and formulates possible solutions.
• Provides documentation to support corrective and disciplinary actions.
• Signs performance plans and appraisals.
• Resolves informal grievances or formal grievances at the first step.
• Starts the hiring process, interviewing applicants and recommending hires, transfers or promotions.
• Trains subordinate staff in the work principles, policies and or procedures to maintain and/or improve the production levels of employees in accordance with established work performance standards.
• Completes employee attendance records, repair requests, accident/injury reports and employee performance reports.
• Receives and responds to customer complaints, questions and concerns or refers to appropriate person or agency.
• Sets up and coordinates work details for special events.
• May operate grounds keeping equipment in absence of normally assigned staff and to instruct subordinates.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide first line supervision. Ability to persuade, convince, and train subordinates. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as dump trucks, mowers, trimmers, pruners, tractors, hand excavating tools, tillers, loaders, forklift, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as park use permits, complaints, employee attendance records, accident/injury reports, personnel policies, performance appraisals, repair requests, work orders, diagrams, procedures and guidelines. City of St. Louis Park Supervisor I June 2000 Page 3
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; calculate surface areas and volumes; interpret descriptive statistical reports. Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, leading, teaching and coordinating. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, animals/wildlife and toxic/poisonous agents.
• Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work needed to perform landscaping duties involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling moderately heavy objects and materials up to one hundred (100) pounds. Requires the ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, tastes, odors and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks. Incumbents recognize characteristics of colors and odors to detect dead plant materials, shapes to identify hazards and irregular plant materials and weeds, sound to detect malfunctions, and odors to distinguish chemicals/pesticides. Requires the ability to distinguish objects clearly at close and far range.

Qualifications:

Two years of experience leading and participating in the landscaping, maintenance and care of parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, floral displays and other related public areas. OR an equivalent combination of training and experience.

License:

Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.

Preferences:

At least one year of previous supervisory experience.

Scoring Components and Their Weights

• Experience and Training: 100%
• Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
• Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

• City of St. LouisCity Hall1200 Market StreetSaint Louis, MO 63103