Maintenance Worker 3 - Parks & Beaches

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County. Compensation: $22.99 - $35.63

• Analyzes work order requests and develops a cost-effective and efficient plan in order to complete the job.
• Provides a list of materials with prices in order to obtain purchase order and complete paperwork.
• Purchases materials with purchase orders and transports to job site location.
• Checks and maintains tools and equipment periodically in order to ensure proper operation and safety.
• Performs a variety of skilled and specialized repairs such as plumbing repairs on landscape irrigation.
• Oversees contractual work.
• Assists with setting up use of parks, beaches and grounds for special events.
• Completes appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.
• Keeps work area clean and organized and use safety cones and signage when required.
• Attends required training and safety meetings and use appropriate safety equipment.
• Maintains and repairs equipment and structures in playgrounds, athletic courts, ball fields and beaches.
• Operates and maintains tools, machinery: tractors, lawn mowers, trucks, golf carts and hand tools.
• Performs daily landscaping such as pruning trees, bushes and mowing grass.
• Performs athletic field preparation to include painting, chalking, mowing and clay preparation.
• Performs maintenance inspections.
• Routinely maintains boat ramp surfaces and approaches including inspections and disposal of trash and other debris.
• May act as lead over others that assist in performing tasks.
• Daily custodial tasks at all park and beach facilities including litter pickup and bathroom maintenance, etc.
• Ability to work nights and weekends as required.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.
• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

• Education and Experience:
  
  High School Diploma or GED. 3 years minimum of prior related work experience.
• Special
  
  Qualifications:
  
  Valid Florida Driver’s License. CDL preferred. Certified Playground Inspector preferred.

• Ability to work from a general outline of duties and responsibilities.
• Ability to perform work that necessitates some specialized knowledge of clerical or trades-based tasks; knowledge of specialized turf maintenance to include aeration, herbicide, and pesticide applications.
• Ability to make decisions that govern activities as well as others.
• Ability to work with less than ten co-workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.

• The work is medium and requires exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Balancing:
  Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• Climbing:
  Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling:
  Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching:
  Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling:
  Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Grasping:
  Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling:
  Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing:
  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling:
  Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting:
  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Manual Dexterity:
  Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers…