Recreation Maintenance Worker

JCPRD; Shawnee (KS); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Johnson County Park and Recreation District as a Maintenance Supervisor. This role involves overseeing sports field maintenance, managing staff, and ensuring safety standards. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills and a background in facility maintenance. Enjoy a rewarding career enhancing community life through recreation and culture.

Benefits

Excellent benefits

Retirement plans

Employee incentives

Great organizational culture

Qualifications

• 2 years of sports field/lawn/turf care maintenance.
• Supervisory skills including motivation and delegation.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance for sports fields and facilities.
• Supervise and train part-time staff.
• Manage equipment and perform repairs.

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Leadership

Human relations

Oral communication

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suites

Job description

Overview

Make a positive impact on the community by joining the Johnson County Park and Recreation District team and help us enhance the lives of thousands through excellence in parks, recreation, culture, education, and public service. As a JCPRD employee, you'll be part of a locally, regionally, and nationally acclaimed organization that annually hosts nearly 7 million park visitors and engages nearly 3 million participants in 4,000+ programs. With excellent benefits, retirement plans, employee incentives, and a great organizational culture, JCPRD is building a thriving park and recreation system that inspires play, culture, and education, supporting healthy and fulfilling lives for all. Come work where you play!

Job Description

The following Leadership Competencies apply to supervisors, managers, and executives based on designated responsibilities:

• People Management – Clearly defines subordinate roles and responsibilities; motivates employees to perform and delegates work effectively; applies consistent performance standards and handles performance problems decisively and objectively; leads by example.
• Operations Management – Directs and guides operations in alignment with the County’s and department’s overall goals and objectives; ensures the execution of efficient processes to maximize the County’s and department’s resources; utilizes operational knowledge to make sound decisions.
• Strategic Leadership – Determines the strategic direction of the team or department in alignment with overall county goals; effectively communicates strategies internally and externally; creates a culture to support strategies and provides mechanisms to implement them; fosters buy-in and enthusiasm with employees.

Essential Duties:

• Position performs park maintenance for JCPRD sports fields, including baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. This position also performs building maintenance as applicable. Responsible for maintaining all outdoor fields and indoor courts at a level of excellence to ensure safe play and patron satisfaction.
• Maintenance duties include chemical application, mowing, trimming, weeding, trash collection, snow removal, cleaning of grounds, picnic areas and restrooms. The position performs regular maintenance and repairs on vehicles, tractors, and small engines and the candidates must have the ability to perform duties related to repairs to plumbing, electrical, carpentry and other construction related duties.
• Aids department maintenance supervisors or specialists in recruiting, hiring, training, supervising and evaluating part-time staff for facility maintenance and/or operations. Under the guidance of direct supervisor, helps ensure that part-time staff complete assigned duties. Serves as a lead person; directs and assists crews in completing assignments; trains new seasonal staff; ensures safety standards are met; completes paperwork and equipment logs; assists in the coordination and direction of contractors; serves as supervisor in the supervisor's absence.
• Operates vehicles or powered equipment; completes commercial mowing, field dragging and snow removal; applies chemicals and spreads fertilizers, herbicides and soil amendments; aerates grounds, mulches tree beds, plants trees and flowers; trims and prunes shrubs and trees; repairs soil erosion; oversees turf and chemical applications; completes complex tasks, repairs, and manages irrigation and backflow program for outdoor fields. Ensures that fields/facilities are clean, safe and prepared to a level of excellence for program participants and rental groups. Aids supervisor in overseeing facility system repairs, etc., working with vendors to ensure project completion, ensures all building/permits and licenses are secured and up to date.
• Performs general, routine, and complex maintenance of light and medium duty equipment; rebuilds and repairs equipment and trailers; changes over from mowing equipment to snow equipment; performs basic maintenance duties such as painting, light plumbing, cleaning of shop and equipment areas; builds, fixes, and maintains fencing; completes basic preventative maintenance on building/field maintenance equipment. Assists direct supervisor in the implementation of a yearly maintenance plan.
• Performs various tasks requiring equipment, vehicle, and tool operation; uses a variety of small and large tools and operates a variety of light and medium duty equipment and attachments including tractors, trucks, dump trucks and snow removal equipment.
• Completes paperwork, work orders and equipment logs; follows purchasing card guidelines to ensure accuracy in the approval process.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position is also responsible for the supervision and leadership of employees, which includes making employment-related decisions and/or recommendations, and formally evaluating performance.

Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing. Scheduling and shift assignments and work location may be changed at any time, as required by business necessity.

Job Requirements

Minimum Job Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 2 years of sports field/lawn/turf care maintenance and/or facility maintenance.
• Must be 21 or older.
• Attention to detail.
• Basic mathematical and accounting skills
• Computer software: Microsoft Office Suites
• Keyboarding ability.
• Human relations/interpersonal skills.
• Oral communication skills, including presentations to individuals and small groups.
• Time management skills including the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and meet deadlines.
• Leadership and supervisory skills, including motivation, delegation of duties, evaluation, strategic planning skills, goal setting skills, assessment skills, collaboration skills, and complex decision-making skills.

Preferred Job Requirements:

• Project management skills
• Direct experience maintaining large multi-faceted athletic facilities.

JCPRD requires reference/background screening for all positions. Specified criteria may vary by Department.