Maintenance Worker - Parks

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County. Compensation: $21.89 - $33.94

The primary function of this position is to perform day-to-day maintenance and repair of County parks, beaches, boat ramps, and grounds.

• Check and maintain tools and equipment periodically to ensure proper operation and safety.
• Keep work area clean and organized, and use safety cones and signage when required.
• Complete appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.
• Prepare the work area using appropriate tools for assigned tasks.
• Maintain and repair equipment and structures in playgrounds, tennis courts, volleyball courts, ball fields, beaches, and parks.
• Operate and maintain tools and machinery such as tractors, lawnmowers, trucks, hand tools, and sand trucks.
• Perform daily landscaping, such as pruning trees and bushes and mowing grass.
• Perform athletic field preparation to include painting, chalking, and clay preparation.
• Work nights, weekends, and events as required.
• Perform custodial tasks at all park and beach facilities, including litter pickup and bathroom maintenance, sweeping, mopping, and collection of trash.
• Perform landscaping duties, including pruning, mowing, weeding, and raking.
• Drive County vehicles transporting tools and equipment.
• May be required to collect tolls.
• Perform 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.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 2 years of prior related work experience.
• Valid Florida Driver’s License required. CDL preferred.

• Ability to work from guidelines but determine the approach for doing the work.
• Knowledge of clerical or trades-based tasks.
• Ability to gather, format, or visually analyze data or operate construction or warehouse equipment (moving vans, dump trucks, front-end loaders).
• Ability to work in a responsive environment where co‑workers or citizens bring problems for resolution.
• Ability to work with less than ten co‑workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.

• The work is heavy and requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force to move objects, and/or up to 20 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Pulling:
  Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing:
  Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Reaching:
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion:
  Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking:
  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing:
  Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping:
  Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Walking:
  Moving about on foot…