Parks and Marina Maintenance Technician
City of Burlington, NC
Get a reply from this employer
Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.
Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
The City of Burlington, NC seeks a Grounds Maintenance worker for the Burlington Recreation and Parks to maintain lakes, marinas and facilities across three lakes. You will perform routine landscaping, cleaning, equipment care and customer support tasks to ensure safe, attractive spaces for residents.
Responsibilities include mowing, weed eating, pruning, sign crafting, supply purchases, and assisting marina operations.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma and substantial maintenance experience, preferably in parks or marina settings.
- Valid North Carolina Driver's License.
- Valid North Carolina Pesticide Applicator License or ability to obtain within 6 months.
- Must be able to operate a boat.
- Must be able to work evenings, weekends and holidays.
Responsibilities
- Perform routine maintenance to keep lakes and marinas safe, clean, and attractive.
- Mow, weed eat, prune trees, fertilize, seed, and maintain flower beds across three lakes.
- Operate maintenance equipment including mowers, tractors, weed eaters, leaf blowers, stump grinders, and city trucks.
- Clean buildings, check water and air filters, replace light bulbs, and perform minor repairs at lake facilities.
- Maintain and clean groundskeeping tools and perform purchases of supplies and sign crafting.
- Assist marina operators with check-in, cash register, inquiries, and rental reservations.
- Work to support general duties and other maintenance tasks as required.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
Burlington Recreation and Parks provide a diverse range of programs that enhances the well-being of our residents. Besides just being fun, Burlington's parks, programs and services provide opportunities to improve physical and mental health, develop our youth, focus on the environment and make a positive impact on our city.
Burlington Recreation and Parks provide a diverse range of programs that enhances the well-being of our residents. Besides just being fun, Burlington's parks, programs and services provide opportunities to improve physical and mental health, develop our youth, focus on the environment and make a positive impact on our city.
An employee in this class performs routine, manual work in providing safe, clean, and attractive lakes and marinas for use by city residents. An employee in this position performs the most responsible level of maintenance work among crew members. Good judgment and maturity are required. Work includes general landscaping, cleaning building interiors, equipment maintenance, and occasionally assisting marina operators in office operations.
- Mows, weed eats, sprays herbicides, plants flower beds, cuts and prunes trees, fertilizes, seeds, blows and rakes leaves, and grinds stumps across three lakes.
- Operates various equipment, including mowers, tractors, weed eaters, leaf blowers, stump grinders, and city trucks.
- Mops, sweeps, collects garbage, cleans windows, checks water and air filters, changes light bulbs, and conducts minor repair work at three lake facilities.
- Maintains and cleans groundskeeping tools and equipment by checking fluid levels, adding fluids, changing oil, replacing mower blades, and restringing weed eaters.
- Purchases necessary supplies, tools, and equipment, writes purchase orders, and maintains purchase records.
- Crafts and paints signs for the lakes.
- Assists marina operators with tasks such as checking in boats, running the cash register, answering customer inquiries, and managing rental reservations.
- Performs additional maintenance and related duties as required.
- Possesses general knowledge of groundskeeping and maintenance work.
- Proficient in operating maintenance equipment, including mowers, tractors, leaf blowers, weed eaters, and stump grinders.
- Skilled in seeding, strawing, fertilizing, mowing, shoveling, and raking.
- Capable of identifying and reporting maintenance needs of lakes and marinas to supervisors.
- Adheres to established safety principles and practices and works safely at all times.
- Prepared to act quickly and appropriately in emergency situations.
- Demonstrates tact and courtesy in public interactions.
- Works effectively as part of a team, fostering a collaborative environment.
- Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with supervisors, colleagues, and the public.
- Learns and adheres to standards, policies, and procedures related to boats and boating.
- Accepts and carries out instructions provided by supervisors with diligence.
- High School Diploma and considerable work experience in maintenance work, preferably at a park or marina, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Valid North Carolina Driver's License.
- Must possess a valid North Carolina Pesticide Applicator License, or the ability to obtain it within 6 months of employment.
- Must be able to operate a boat or have experience in operating a boat.
- Must be able to work evenings, weekends and holidays.
- Work in this class is described as moderately strenuous using a negligible amount of force occasionally to move objects and complete tasks.
- Work typically involves the ability to physically perform the basic life operational functions of climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing and repetitive motions.
- Work necessitates visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned.
- Employee is subject to hazards, including noise, mechanical equipment and atmospheric conditions due to exposure to fumes, odors, and dusts.
- Working conditions include outside environmental conditions.
Non-Exempt
Non-Essential
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Ability to transfer North Carolina local government earned sick leave.
- Paid holidays for New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Good Friday, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
- Enrollment in the Local Government branch of the North Carolina State Retirement System
- Enrollment in Empower 401k
- Health and dental insurance coverage for employee and children; spouses may be added to the policy if they are not offered coverage at their own place of employment
- Voluntary enrollment in a Flexible Spending Plan
- Life insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Other voluntary insurances and deferred compensation plans
What experience do you have opearting a boat?
Do you have a valid Driver License?
- Yes
- No
- Required Question
'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M101.744%2012.4726L102.894%2016.1947L99.0021%2013.2201L101.744%2012.4726ZM105.3%208.40937H100.488L99.0026%203.59473L97.5116%208.41047L92.7%208.40385L96.5965%2011.3834L95.1055%2016.1942L99.0021%2013.2196L101.408%2011.3834L105.3%208.40992V8.40937Z'%20fill='white'/%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient%20id='paint0_linear_5593_1381'%20x1='90'%20y1='9.44471'%20x2='99'%20y2='9.44471'%20gradientUnits='userSpaceOnUse'%3e%3cstop%20stop-color='%2300AD70'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='0.998594'%20stop-color='%2300B67A'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='1'%20stop-color='%23DCDCE6'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
