Maintenance Worker - Parks

Job Description

 Safety sensitive:              Yes - position is subject to pre employment and random drug screening

Exempt:                            No (Hourly Position)

Department:                     Parks and Recreation Department

Reports To                         Parks Maintenance Superintendent

Location:                           Craighead Forest Park, Jonesboro Arkansas

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

This safety sensitive (SS) entry level employee assists in performing maintenance and support functions at parks, community centers and special events.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Overall duties include the maintenance, safety and beauty of the park grounds, park equipment, vehicles and facilities. This duty is performed daily.

2. Duties include, but are not limited to: pruning, mowing, weed eating, digging, trail building, cleaning facilities, raking leaves, painting, sweeping, edging, checking oil and grease in small engines and trucks, replacing mower blades, cleaning equipment, cleaning and organizing the park shop. This duty is performed daily.

3. May arrange chairs, tables, and sporting or exercise equipment in designated rooms or other areas for schedule recreational activities. This duty is performed monthly.

4. May render emergency first aid as necessary. This duty is performed as needed.

5. May operate off-road park or cemetery equipment and use hand tools. This duty is performed daily.

6. May be required to drive park or cemetery department vehicles. This duty is performed daily.

7. May be required to use appropriate safety equipment for protection of self or the public. This duty is performed daily.

8. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Minimum requirement; general educational background without high school completion, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

 MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

 REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Valid driver’s license

 PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Not indicated.

 SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

Not indicated.

 INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor.

 PLANNING

Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

 DECISION MAKING

Performs work operations which permit infrequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved to a slight degree.

MENTAL DEMAND

Light mental demand. Operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to carry out predetermined procedure or sequence of operations of limited variability. Operations requiring intermittent attention to control machine or manual motions.

 ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

Moderately repetitive.  Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision.  Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

 RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS

Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.

 RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT

No responsibility for this factor.

 ACCURACY

Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected within the department or office in which they occur, but may affect the work of others within the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to trace errors and make all necessary corrections. Errors would require a moderate amount of time to correct.

 ACCOUNTABILITY

 FREEDOM TO ACT

Defined. Semi-repetitive prescribed processes and procedures with nearby supervision.

 ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT

The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities. Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, and savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.

None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

 IMPACT ON END RESULTS

Minimal impact. Job is focused on non-supervisory decision making activities and has minor impact on the organization's end results.

 PUBLIC CONTACT

Occasional routine contacts with persons outside the organization. This would include contacts with suppliers, mail service, etc.

 EMPLOYEE CONTACT

Contacts of little importance and usually with immediate associates only. Requires only ordinary courtesy to avoid friction in relationship incidental to working with others.

 USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS

Occasional use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, etc.)

 WORKING CONDITIONS

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

 ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to outdoor weather conditions; regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

Highly repetitive, moderately physical. Highly repetitive type of work which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, walk; regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; and occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; peripheral vision; and depth perception.

 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The specific duties vary by department.  In some parks divisions this position may supervise seasonal workers, inmates and public service workers in the absence of the supervisor.  In other situations the Parks Maintenance Worker never has supervisory responsibilities.