Temporary Maintenance Worker 2

Monroe County Board of County Commissioners; Big Pine Key (FL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Monroe County Board of County Commissioners is seeking a maintenance worker to perform day‑to‑day upkeep of County parks, beaches, boat ramps, and grounds in Florida. The role involves operating and maintaining equipment, landscaping, and ensuring safety and cleanliness across facilities.

Requirements include a High School Diploma or GED and a valid Florida driver’s license; CDL is preferred. Heavy physical work and occasional night/weekend shifts are expected.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• CDL preferred.
• Valid Florida driver’s license required.

Responsibilities

• Checks and maintains tools and equipment periodically to ensure proper operation and safety.
• Keeps work area clean and organized and uses safety cones and signage when required.
• Completes appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.
• Prepares the work area using appropriate tools for the tasks assigned.
• Maintains and repairs equipment and structures in playgrounds, tennis courts, volleyball courts, ballfields, beaches, and parks.
• Operates and maintains tools machinery: Tractors, lawnmowers, trucks, hand tools, sand pros, and more.
• Performs daily landscaping, such as pruning trees and bushes and mowing grass.
• Performs athletic field preparation to include painting, chalking, and clay preparation.
• Daily custodial tasks at all park and beach facilities, including litter pickup and bathroom maintenance, sweeping, mopping, and collection of trash.

Skills

Equipment operation

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Driver's license

Education

High School Diploma or GED

CDL Preferred

Job description

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.

Compensation: $21.89 - $33.94

Job Description

The primary function of this position is to perform day‑to‑day maintenance and repair of County parks, beaches, boat ramps, and grounds.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Checks and maintains tools and equipment periodically in order to ensure proper operation and safety.
• Keeps work area clean and organized and uses safety cones and signage when required.
• Completes appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.
• Prepares the work area using appropriate tools for the tasks assigned.
• Maintains and repairs equipment and structures in playgrounds, tennis courts, volleyball courts, ballfields, beaches, and parks.
• Operates and maintains tools machinery: Tractors, lawnmowers, trucks, hand tools, sand pros, and more.
• Performs daily landscaping, such as pruning trees and bushes and mowing grass.
• Performs athletic field preparation to include painting, chalking, and clay preparation.
• Ability to work nights, weekends, and events as required.
• Daily custodial tasks at all park and beach facilities, including litter pickup and bathroom maintenance, sweeping, mopping, and collection of trash.
• Landscaping duties, including pruning, mowing, weeding, and raking.
• Drives county vehicles transporting tools and equipment; may be required to collect tolls.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.
• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience: High School Diploma or GED. 2 years minimum of prior related work experience.

Special Qualifications

Valid Florida Driver’s License required. CDL Preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Ability to have guidelines for work but determine the approach for doing the work.
• Knowledge of clerical or trades‑based tasks.
• Some of the typical responsibilities include gathering, formatting, or visually analyzing data or operating construction or warehouse equipment (moving vans, dump trucks, front‑end loaders).
• Ability to work in a responsive environment where co‑workers or citizens bring problems for resolution; determine problems and create individual solutions for issues.
• Ability to work with less than ten co‑workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is heavy and requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force to move objects, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position‑to‑position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed in a safe and secure work environment that may periodically have unpredicted requirements or demands.

Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.

Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.

Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.

Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.

The Mission of Monroe County is to provide outstanding public service responsive to the needs of our citizens, our unique community, and our environment.

Your job application and any additional information you submit to us will become a public record, and will be disclosed to any member of the public upon request, with the exception of a few sensitive pieces of information, such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license information and medical records.