PT Groundskeeper 1

P/T Groundskeeper

The Jonesboro Parks and Recreation Department is seeking a dedicated and reliable individual for this position. This position will provide the right individual an excellent opportunity to become part of a friendly, team oriented work environment. This entry level employee will assist in performing maintenance and support functions at the Shooting Range.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following, but are not limited to:

• Overall duties include the maintenance, safety and beauty of the park grounds, park equipment, vehicles and facilities. This duty is performed daily.
• Duties include, but are not limited to: pruning, mowing, weed eating, digging, trail building, cleaning facilities, raking leaves, painting, sweeping, edging, checking oil and grease in small engines and trucks, replacing mower blades, cleaning equipment, cleaning and organizing the park shop. This duty is performed daily.
• Cleaning of restrooms and equipment. This duty is performed daily.
• May render emergency first aid as necessary. This duty is performed as needed.
• May operate off-road park equipment and use hand tools. This duty is performed daily.
• May be required to use appropriate safety equipment for protection of self or the public. This duty is performed daily.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and Experience:

Minimum requirement; general educational background without high school completion, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Communication

Skills:

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals;
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

Critical Thinking

Skills:

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

Initiative Supervision Received:
Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor.

Planning:
Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

Decision Making:
Performs work operations which permit infrequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance, and which would only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved to a slight degree.

Analytical Ability/ Problem Solving:
Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

Use of machines, equipment, and/or computers:
Ability to operate equipment including, but are not limited to lawn mowers, weed eaters, and trimmers.

Working Conditions:

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time including hot weather.

Environmental Conditions:

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to outdoor weather conditions; regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical

Activities:

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations. Highly repetitive, moderately physical. Highly repetitive type of work which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, walk; regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; and occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds;

frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; peripheral vision; and depth perception.