Park Maintenance Worker I

Job Posting Title:

Park Maintenance Worker I

Department:

Parks & Recreation

Location:

415 SILVER AVE SW

Pay:

$17.77

Closing Date:

November 1st, 2024

Employees at Bernalillo County enjoy the ability to team up with each other to build a high quality of life for our county residents, communities, and businesses. In addition to being an organization with a strong focus on work-life balance, building a culture of flexibility, learning, and belonging the County offers many benefits. Employees of Bernalillo County enjoy many thoughtful rewards such as, but not limited to generous leave accruals; career development opportunities; remote & flex-work options as appropriate; longevity pay; education assistance program; health benefits; lucrative retirement; and so much more.

Park Maintenance Worker I (U) will assist and perform maintenance of parks, open space facilities, and other maintained public areas with mowing, trimming, planting, fertilizing, spraying, digging, raking, irrigation maintenance and installation, etc. Acquired skills and experience necessary through training with advanced workers. Perform custodial and general maintenance services by keeping assigned areas clean, orderly, safe, and secure with established standards and adjusting individual assignments. Use various types of power-driven machines and cleaning materials. Perform general maintenance to include minor repairs and preventive maintenance. Perform a variety of tasks in weed and litter control at designated County facilities.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Care for established park grounds; perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: mowing, trimming, watering, fertilizing, digging, sprinkler repair, fence repair, maintain of existing landscapes, painting, planting, pruning, weeding, aerating, trash removal and general upkeep of lawns and grounds 2. Assist in the groundwork of soil preparation, soil leveling, seeding, sod install and weed control. 3. Load and unloads equipment and supplies, cleans, and cares for basic tools and equipment. 4. Assist trades workers with and general facility maintenance. 5. Deliver and assemble tents, outdoor bleachers, stands and tables for special events. 6. Assist other park maintenance crews with thinning and chipping of trees, shrubs, flower beds and weeding. 7. Learn and be able to demonstrate to work with and/or mix with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and or insecticides and apply them through sprays under the direction of the qualifying party. 8. Learn and be able to demonstrate the operation and perform daily maintenance of a variety of ground maintenance equipment, vehicles, trailers, power driven tools and equipment utilized in the performance of duties. 9. May be required to drive work trucks to and from work sites after successful completion of Bernalillo County’s defensive driving course. 10. Adherence to safe work practices and procedures in adherence with appropriate regulations and standards. 11. Completion of weekly work sheets and preventive and corrective action work orders assigned by supervisor. 12. Follow standard operating procedures for the department. 13. Perform other job-related duties as required or assigned by the supervisor. *The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities required of all employees assigned to this job. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS High School diploma or GED plus one (1) year experience in the area of ground-keeping and landscaping. Employee must have a valid New Mexico driver’s license by employment date and maintain a valid NM driver’s license while employed in this position. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS The offer of this Bernalillo County position requires compliance with the following: 1. Employee must successfully complete the post-offer employment medical examination and background investigation. 2. Employee must comply with the safety guidelines of the County. 3. Understand and fully execute