Parks Superintendent

The Town of Fountain Hills (Town Website) is seeking an experienced, hands-on parks professional to serve as its next Parks Superintendent. This full-time leadership position plays an important role in ensuring the Town’s parks, public grounds, and landscaped rights‑of‑way are safe, attractive, and well maintained for residents and visitors.

• Directs, supervises, and evaluates Parks Division staff. Responsible for overall operation of Parks Division facilities, amenities, vehicles, and equipment. Provides organizational leadership by developing division and individual goals and objectives, and recommending strategies for maximizing efficiency, safety, and quality of park operations. Ensures safe and efficient operation of Parks facilities and equipment and compliance with Town policies, state, and local regulations.
• Develops and monitors overall Parks Division budget. Conducts research and prepares written budgetary expenditure justification, facility usage and activity reports. Reviews and approves division purchases.
• Oversees, coordinates, and administers the Town’s landscaping master contract for maintenance of parks, rights‑of‑way, groundskeeping, and other landscaping needs. Meets with vendors and oversees contract workers.
• Participates in the planning of new park facilities.
• Plans, develops, and evaluates annual maintenance, landscape and horticulture plans for parks. Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations and customer service by streamlining work processes, reducing turnaround times, and ensuring budgetary goals are met.
• Assists staff with daily maintenance and operations as needed at each park facility.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

• Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature, which may be obtained with a two-year associate degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, or vocational school. Appropriate certification may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training. Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, especially spreadsheets, and Word documents. Proficient in the use of electronic maintenance management systems.
• Minimum 5 years experience in supervision of municipal parks or ground maintenance.
• Possess a valid Arizona Driver's License for a minimum of two years with a good driving record;
  Playground Equipment and Safety certification; CPR certification;
  First Aid Certification;
  Structural Pest Control license. The Town currently designates this job as a “safety-sensitive position.” Accordingly, the Town requires satisfactory completion of a drug and alcohol screening as a condition of employment.
• Equivalent combinations of experience and training that meet the minimum qualifications may be substituted.
• Ability to read and interpret reports, memos, bids, blueprints, manuals, and correspondence.
• Work requires the ability to perform general math calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, basic calibrations for chemical applications.
• Requires ability to correspond by writing reports, e‑mails, memos, letters, requisitions, and employee evaluations.
• Responsibilities include personnel reviews, maintenance schedules, administering contracts, and attending meetings.
• Responsible for preparing all Town parks annual budgets, including research and recommendations for park equipment and facilities.
• Work requires managing and supervising all Parks Division employees, including input on hiring, disciplinary actions, goal setting and evaluations.
• Work requires extensive knowledge of all aspects of grounds and facilities maintenance: turf, irrigation, buildings, electrical, mechanical, safety, budgets, customer service.…