Parks & Recreation and Streets & Drainage Technician

As the Parks & Recreation and Streets & Drainage Technician, you’ll support the daily work that keeps our parks welcoming and our streets and drainage functioning—combining administrative expertise and project coordination, while providing exceptional service to our residents, visitors, and City staff.

Under limited supervision from the Directors of Parks & Recreation and Streets & Drainage, this position provides advanced administrative, clerical, and technical support to ensure the efficient daily operations of both departments. The Technician performs a wide variety of complex tasks requiring independent judgment, confidentiality, discretion, and strong organizational skills. Responsibilities include greeting and assisting the public, answering inquiries, managing projects, preparing reports, maintaining records, coordinating meetings, supporting budget development, purchasing, drafting communications, conducting research, and providing excellent customer service.

This role also assists with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tasks using ESRI (ArcGIS) software. Employees in this classification regularly resolve non-routine issues and serve as a key point of contact for internal staff, City personnel, and the public. Work is performed with latitude for independent decision-making and is reviewed by the Directors. Performs related duties as assigned.

$25.66 - $29.03 DOQ

This position is designated as an on-site role requiring regular attendance during normal business hours:

7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Regular and dependable attendance is an essential function of this position.

• Occasional evening attendance at Parks Board meetings.
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, holidays, or outside normal business hours as needed to support City operations and special events.
• Participation in Emergency Management activities, including reporting for duty before, during, or after emergencies or disasters as assigned.

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. This is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents of this class; employees may be assigned duties which are not listed below; reasonable accommodations will be made as required. Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage administrative support tasks for the Directors and Departments, including complex assignments, prioritizing workload, and meeting deadlines.
• Perform receptionist and clerical duties such as greeting visitors, responding to phone and email inquiries, providing general information, processing documents, data entry, filing, and maintaining departmental logs.
• Establish and maintain office systems, including files, records, forms, documentation, mail routing, and project management.
• Prepare, compose, and distribute materials such as memos, correspondence, reports, purchase orders, resolutions, certificates, summaries, and responses to inquiries.
• Ensure timely relay of information and requests to appropriate staff; elevate critical matters when necessary.
• Exercise independent judgment while maintaining strict confidentiality of business, employee, and customer information.
• Demonstrate and maintain strong customer service skills when interacting with coworkers, internal customers, and the general public.
• Serve as purchasing agent for Parks & Recreation and Streets & Drainage, handling equipment and capital improvement purchases.
• Draft Requests for Proposals and contracts; upload RFPs, bids, and…