Parks Technician II

Perform a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled tasks in the maintenance and operation of the Borough’s buildings, grounds, fields, open spaces, and parks. Lead other parks and fields maintenance personnel in maintenance activities, as assigned. Summer duties will include planting and maintaining the Borough’s public areas, planters, and baskets. Weekend and shift work may be required.

• Assist in developing, constructing and maintaining gardens, beautification assets, parks, fields, playgrounds, green-spaces and Borough facilities.
• Mow and maintain park and open space areas such as baseball and soccer fields; remove weeds; clean and maintain tennis courts and nets. Perform annual and routine daily preparatory maintenance for all games and events at Borough sports fields. Inspect, wash, and perform routine maintenance of park drinking fountains and restrooms. Wash, paint, and repair or replace park tables and slabs.
• Maintain the central greenhouse in its entirety, including ensuring operational availability, climate control, stocking, and cleaning.
• Lead warehousing for all materials required for gardening a beautification operations and purchase materials for ongoing operations.
• Operate vehicle-mounted snowplow, ice melt applicators, snow blowers, and ATV-mounted snowplow.
• Care for and maintain trees, including planting, pruning, and removal as necessary. Assist in the developing and maintaining tree inventory. Participate in Arbor Day activities as requested.
• Perform routine maintenance on lawn and power equipment. Maintain equipment and automobile maintenance logs.
• Maintain and adjust specialized turf care equipment and tools, including electric motors, pumps, sprinklers, tractors, and mowers.
• Use hand and power tools such as saws, drills, hammers, snow blowers, pumps, brush cutters, generators, compressors, mowers, chainsaws, grinders, wood chippers, and stump grinders, as needed.
• Assists Grounds Supervisor in the development of work schedules, maintenance planning and facility operations. Identifies periods of shift work and delegate to temporary and Parks Tech I staff as appropriate.
• Assign duties to Parks Tech I and temporary or volunteer personnel in maintenance activities, as assigned.
• Assist in setting up and taking down equipment for various park and recreation programs; prepare facilities for use.
• Assist in the construction of new parks facilities. Oversee the physical upkeep of parks, fields, playgrounds, and facilities in a safe and fiscally responsible manner.
• Assist Grounds Supervisor in chemical use and safety. Assist in the chemical safety/Right-to-Know program.
• Interact with contractors, vendors, sports league representatives, and the general public regularly.
• Provide instruction to other employees in all aspects of procedure and technique related to this job, unless such instruction requires specialized certification not held by the employee. Perform minor semi-skilled interior building maintenance such as painting, plumbing, carpentry, electrical, and other trade work.
• Operate forklifts, tractors, mowers, jack hammers, welders, trucks, steam cleaners, buffers, washers, and other equipment as needed.
• Perform custodial work such as assigned, including changing light bulbs, dumping garbage, replenishing supplies; sweeping; washing windows and walls; cleaning rain gutters; and collecting and disposing of solid waste.
• Install and maintain goal posts and nets for sports facilities, including soccer, volleyball, baseball, softball, tennis and basketball. Open and close, lock and unlock facilities as needed.
• Assist with interviews, hiring, training, and oversight of temporary employees in all tasks under the responsibility of the division.

• Condition and prepare soils; plant seeds, seedlings or bulbs in greenhouse or outdoor growing areas using hand tools and gardening equipment.
• Transplant plants from growing areas to display beds; place potted plants in beds or baskets according to work plans.
• Plant grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs; develop work plans for all Borough beautification assets including parks, baskets, and facilities.
• Fertilize, water, weed, or thin plants in greenhouse and growing areas.
• Trim and edge around walks, flower beds, and walls using edging tools.
• Prune shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth or remove damaged leaves, branches, or twigs, using shears, pruners or chain saws.
• Apply herbicides and insecticides as necessary using hand or automatic sprayer.
• Maintain lawns by watering, mowing, fertilizing, and monitoring plant health.
• Rake and bag leaves for composting and remove litter as necessary.
• Assist in the development and implementation of beautification plans and short-term goals.
• Promote beautification activities within the Borough including Arbor Day events, instructional classes, and radio programs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the Grounds Supervisor or other Public Works management.

Knowledge of general parks,…