Full-time Parks Maintenance Worker I - Whispering Pines- Parks & Rec. Dept.

Job Title : Grounds Maintenance

The City of Port St. Lucie is an equal opportunity employer.

This position requires the applicant to successfully pass a drug screening.

Please note that this is an external job posting intended for non-city employees. If you are a current city employee applying through this posting, your application will not be reviewed with other internal candidates. In order to be considered with internal candidates, please apply on the internal posting by clicking HERE.

This position is Essential and is required to report to duty before, during, and immediately after a civil emergency. Semi-skilled and manual work in maintaining various grounds, fields, and facilities. Facilitates the development of public trust and confidence in the City. Works varied hours including weekends and holidays.

Essential Duties

The following duties are illustrative for this position. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Keeps the mission, vision, and values of the City of Port St. Lucie at the forefront of decision making and action; builds strategic and collaborative relationships and interacts with others in a way that builds confidence and trust; provides excellent customer service by taking action to accomplish objectives, maintains high levels of work and productivity by generating innovative solutions to work situations.
• Maintains equipment and facilities by performing manual labor and semi-skilled work
• Maintains various grounds, fields, and parks by performing mowing, weeding, tilling, raking, digging and other manual labor tasks
• Prepares fields, grounds, and courts for athletic activities
• Perform tasks of painting, irrigation maintenance and spraying
• Performs sodding, seeding, trimming, edging, mulching and similar work in parks and other City grounds.
• Performs litter control functions, cleans restrooms
• Sets up picnics and other areas
• Operates vehicles and equipment and performs preventative maintenance functions on the vehicles and equipment.
• Makes daily written and oral reports
• Informs and directs the public in the use of facilities
• Other duties may be assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and / or Experience : Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of an acceptable equivalency diploma required. Two (2) years of grounds maintenance experience is required. Possession of valid Florida Driver's License and maintenance of clean driving record is required.

Knowledge, Skill and / or Ability Required :

Physical Demands

The physical demands 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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, and crouch. The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally move and / or lift up to 80 pounds and climb a ladder up to 15 feet in height. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus. The work environment is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions that may be adverse and extreme (heat, humidity, cold, rain, etc.). The employee is frequently exposed to noise, dust, fumes, airborne particles, uneven surfaces, heights, and stressful situations. The employee works with hazardous power tools and is exposed to heights up to 15 feet. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.