Parks Maintenance Technician

City of Destin; Destin (FL); On-site; USD 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

The City of Destin's Parks and Recreation department is seeking a dedicated Grounds and Facilities Maintainer to keep parks, walkways, and public spaces safe and attractive. This full-time role requires hands-on maintenance, operation of basic equipment, and adherence to city policies.

You'll work with a team to perform routine upkeep, respond to issues promptly, and assist with special events while ensuring clean, safe environments for residents and visitors.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma and at least six months of related work experience.
• Valid Florida driver's license.
• Knowledge of park maintenance, safety, and basic facilities upkeep.
• Ability to operate and maintain park equipment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain parks, facilities and equipment to meet safety, cleanliness, and aesthetics standards.
• Mow, edge, and trim turf; maintain landscaping.
• Paint fences and city buildings; repair fences, gates and walls.
• Operate heavy equipment; inspect and repair HVAC, plumbing, electrical systems and sprinklers.
• Assist with event setup and safety inspections.
• Respond to emergencies and work varied shifts.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Heavy equipment operation

Safety awareness

Teamwork

Communication

Customer service

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Dump truck operation

Backhoe operation

Front-end loader operation

Tractor operation

Lawn mowing

Job description

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$17.81 -$20.93 /hour Depending on Qualifications: FT + employer-paid benefits package (Medical, dental, vision, life, paid time off, retirement, paid holidays)

Department: Parks and Recreation

Reports To:Parks Supervisor

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

SUMMARY:Maintains assigned grounds, facilities and equipment to meet or exceed safety, cleanliness, and aesthetics standards.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The following are not to be construed as an exclusive or all-inclusivelisting of skills and abilities required to perform the job. Management may delegate other responsibilities as required.

• Demonstrates commitment to Team Destin and our mission, vision, values, and goals and represents the city in a professional, dignified manner at all times, both in actions and appearance.
• Contributes to the development and accomplishment of department meetings and goals.
• Demonstrate competent knowledge of all applicable policies, codes, ordinances, regulations and statutes.
• Demonstrate competent knowledge of all divisional Key Functions and their associated processes.
• Performs routine maintenance of parks, facilities and walkovers to include janitorial duties and the rapid removal of litter, garbage, debris and graffiti.
• Mows, edges, and trims turf.
• Maintains landscaping including planting beds, trees and shrubbery.
• Shovels and removes sand and dirt form walkways, walkovers and driveways.
• Plants grass, flowers, trees and shrubs and installs sod.
• Paints fences, outbuildings, bathrooms, and other city owned property/buildings (interior and exterior).
• Repairs fences, gates, walls, floors and roofs.
• Performs minor carpentry and masonry projects and repair to include boat ramps and docks.
• Cleans out ditches and culverts at assigned parks, facilities and walkovers.
• Prepares athletic fields for practices, game tournaments and special events.
• Performs routine safety inspections and informs Parks Supervisor of potentially hazardous situations.
• Checks all invoices for city compliance (i.e. employee signature, no tax added, etc).
• Drives truck, truck/trailer combinations and controls movement of lifting apparatus.
• Positions truck to hook-up truck trailer hitches to trailer, and transports loads to designated area.
• Inspects and assists with routine maintenance of equipment including lubricating, recharging batteries, filling fuel tanks, changing oil and washing/cleaning.
• Sharpens tools such as weed cutters, edging tools, and shears.
• Makes minor repairs on equipment such as lawn mower, spreader, and miscellaneous lawn care tools/equipment.
• Inspects and makes minor repairs/adjustments to heating and cooling systems; plumbing and electrical systems and appliances; and sprinkler systems.
• Remains available to work emergency situations (i.e., Post Hurricane Phase).
• Interacts with facility users; answering questions, explaining regulations, enforcing regulations to the best of their ability.
• Notifies their Supervisor (or designee) when confronted by users or when observing users who refuse to abide by laws, regulations or ordinances.
• Notifies the Okaloosa Sheriff’s office when a user’s actions pose imminent danger to the public and/or staff.
• Must be available to work days, nights, weekends, and holidays. Schedule is subject to change with short notice based on operational needs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Supervision of other city employees is not required of this position.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience: High School Diploma and six (6) months of work experience in lawn maintenance, janitorial services, or a related field.

Licenses or Certifications:Valid Florida driver’s license required.

Special Requirements:

None.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of general construction blueprints, minor walkway repair, irrigation systems, building maintenance, excavation, lawn maintenance and customer service.
• Ability to communicate and organize effectively.
• Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, technical, structural, compositional or identifiable characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Ability to communicate with people to convey or exchange professional information.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals.
• Ability to produce reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech.
• Ability to learn and understand subject matter principles and techniques.
• Ability to make independent judgments in absence of supervision within the scope of respective job duties and tasks.
• Ability to acquire and expound on knowledge of topics related to primary occupation.
• Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add and subtract, multiply and divide totals; determine percentages; and determine time and weight and interpret same as may be appropriate.
• Ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.
• Ability to operate a variety of heavy equipment such as a dump truck, back hoe, front-end loader, tractor, mowers, etc, to replace and /or supplement when necessary to accomplish a project.
• Ability to work with crewmembers in order to complete projects timely and efficiently.
• Ability to interact with people (staff, supervisors, general public and elected officials) beyond giving and receiving instructions to include tactfully mediating conflicts and achieving positive results.
• Ability to perform under maximum stress when confronted with short deadlines, heavy workloads, conflicting interests and high customer demand.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Must be physically able to operate a variety of essential job related machines and office equipment. Must be able to move or carry essential job related objects or materials. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to sit, stand; to walk; smell; to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT:

• Continuing Education (seminars, job-related coursework at post-secondary institutions, continuing education credits/CEU’s)
• Training (Either as participant or trainer)
• Involvement in relevant professional or technical associations
• Serving on city committees
• Volunteering to take responsibility for special projects, cross training

The City has the right to revise this description at any time. This

description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.