Parks Maintenance Worker

Love the outdoors and working outside? Are you dependable, hard working, and looking for an opportunity with a future? Come join our vibrant team and play an important role in maintaining and enhancing our beautiful parks throughout Coon Rapids! If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you, check the minimum qualifications and apply if qualified!

The City of Coon Rapids employs a great team of people dedicated and service centered! Our mission revolves around the understanding that only together, can we provide outstanding leadership and services that strengthen our community. Serving our Citizens and local businesses is essential in our work. Our vision is to strengthen our community with a respectful, collaborative, and innovative employee culture that values employee growth, personal balance, and contagious enthusiasm.

Our core values include dedication to essentials such as trust, teamwork, innovation and commitment to excellence! No doubt we have something great here!

This is an entry level position in the Parks Division working under the general supervision of the Parks Supervisor. Responsibilities include maintenance duties of a laboring nature.

Work Schedule is primarily Monday-Friday 6:30 am - 2:30 pm with the availability to respond to weather related emergency.

Anticipated hiring rate: $31.32/hour.

Salary range for this position: $31.32 - $39.17/hour.

Priority will be given to internal applicants that apply and meet minimum qualifications.

The City of Coon Rapids is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. The City welcomes, and encourages any qualified applicant to apply regardless of race (including traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and hair styles such as braids, locks and twists), color, creed, religion, familial status, sex (including pregnancy or related conditions, gender identity/expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, marital status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors or any other basis protected by law.

Essential duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

• Performs work of laboring nature including but not limited to frequent lifting, shoveling, operating light equipment and/or heavy equipment or manual labor.
• Performs duties associated with snow plowing, by plowing streets, alleys parking lots, ice rinks and skating areas using light and/or heavy equipment.
• Operates vehicles, requiring a valid class B driver's license including tanker and air brake endorsement.
• Prepares ball fields for league play such as dragging, painting & laying out fields using light and/or heavy equipment or manual labor.
• Constructs and maintains trails using light and/or heavy equipment.
• Maintains turf by mowing, seeding, raking, laying sod, cleaning debris, etc.
• Mows/Aerates lawns, street boarders, fields, ditches, using heavy and/or light equipment.
• Plants and maintains trees and/or shrubs.
• Maintains ice rinks by shoveling, clearing snow, fixing hockey boards, etc.
• Maintains playground equipment by painting, repairing, replacing parts etc.
• Performs routine maintenance on equipment and facilities by painting, cleaning, fixing, etc.
• Performs strenuous manual labor in extreme climatic conditions including but not limited to lifting and digging.
• Follows oral and written instructions such as supervisor's work orders and equipment operation manuals.
• Estimates quantities of materials…