Seasonal Parks Maintenance

City of Rock Island, IL; Rock Island (IL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Rock Island, IL is seeking seasonal Parks Grounds workers to maintain park landscapes and sports fields. The role requires physical outdoor labor using hand and power tools, operating maintenance vehicles, and assisting with event setup.

Applicants must be at least 16 years old and possess a valid driver’s license or be able to obtain one before starting. A background check and substance screening apply after interview; work period runs March through November.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to perform physical tasks in various weather conditions.
• Must be able to follow oral and written instructions.
• Applicants must meet minimum age of 16 and obtain a valid driver's license at interview or before starting work.

Responsibilities

• Plant, maintain, rehabilitate, and construct landscape areas and features.
• Use mowers, trimmers, and backpack blowers to maintain grounds.
• Collect litter and clean paths, beds, fountains, and lots.
• Prepare facilities before events and maintain during events.
• Paint equipment and structures as needed.
• Operate pickups, mowers, tractors, and small maintenance vehicles.
• Repair or replace edging, walls, and plantings as required.

Skills

Physical stamina

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Tools

Lawn maintenance equipment

Hand tools

Power tools

Job description

Under direct supervision, performs unskilled to semi-skilled work pertaining to the maintenance of Parks and sports fields throughout the City.Perform a variety of tasks using various hand and power tools in the establishment and maintenance of grounds, landscape plantings and their confinements. May operate more complex equipment with the proper training or under supervision.

• Plant, maintain, rehabilitate, and construct landscape areas and features throughout park and municipal landscapes.
• Use push, self-propelled and riding mowers, string trimmers, and backpack blowers to maintain grounds.
• Collect and remove litter and trash from parks; clean paths, planting beds, fountains, and lots.
• Prepare facilities before special events and maintain throughout the event.
• Paint equipment and structures as needed.
• Drive pickup trucks, motorized carts, riding mowers, tractors, field groomers and small dump trucks.
• Repair or replace stone, brick, timber, or other edgings and retaining walls.
• Install new plantings and remove old ones; use augers, post-hole diggers, shovels and rakes, tractors.

Other duties as assigned.Applicants must be a minimum of 16 years old by the date they begin work.

Applicants must possess at the time of interview, or verify the ability to acquire by the date work is scheduled to begin, a valid and unencumbered driver's license to become and to remain employed.

All applicants are required to pass a background check before hire. Substance screenings are required of all applicants who were not employed the previous year.

Requires the ability to operate and use hand and power tools normally associated with grounds maintenance, landscape work, and sports field maintenance.

Requires the ability to understand and follow oral and written English instructions.

Requires the ability to perform assigned work tasks in a variety of weather conditions.

Members of the Maintenance Crew and/or Horticulture Crew will work together as both large and small teams and/or may be assigned to specific areas of responsibility as needed.

Physical Demands

This work requires the ability to tolerate extremes of weather and conditions commonly found working in the out of doors. The successful applicant will perform frequent standing, walking, climbing, bending, stooping, reaching, pulling, pushing, and squatting. Lifting of up to 50 pounds repeatedly may be required. Normal hearing, the ability to speak, and depth perception is required.

Additional Information

The Seasonal Work period is expected to begin the first part of March and end at the end of November. Employees will be hired on the basis of experience, abilities, availability, an in person interview, and their ability to fulfill the work period requirement.

Positions Available: Parks Grounds

Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:0 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Weekend work is required depending on crew assignment and needs of the Department.