Maintenance & Operations Worker

The current vacancies are in the Ramsey County Parks & Recreation department. The eligibility list created by these vacancies may be used to hire other vacancies in the department or County.

Join Ramsey County Parks & Recreation and help maintain the parks, facilities, and recreational spaces that our community enjoys year-round!

As a Maintenance & Operations Worker, you'll be part of a team responsible for maintaining, cleaning, and operating ice arenas, parks, golf courses, and other recreational facilities. This hands-on, public-facing position offers a variety of work environments and opportunities to serve people from all backgrounds.

• Schedules:
  Most positions require regular evening and weekend work. Work schedules and locations are determined through a bidding process. This is a full-time, permanent position.
• Commercial Driver's License (CDL): A Class A CDL is required, but you do not need one to apply. Training is provided, and you can obtain your CDL after starting employment.
• Drug testing:
  Employment requires drug testing, including THC (cannabis), in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Experience:
  
  No previous parks and recreation experience is necessary! We welcome experience in maintenance, custodial work, parks, and customer service.

We're looking for dependable, service-oriented people who enjoy hands-on work, working as part of a team, and helping create welcoming, well-maintained public spaces for everyone.

BASIC FUNCTION:
To perform maintenance, cleaning, and building service duties in County and regional parks and recreational areas, golf courses, and ice arenas; and perform related duties as assigned.

• Maintain indoor ice-skating arena to include inspecting ice for thickness and temperature, checking and adjusting refrigeration controls, flooding ice, operating ice resurfacing equipment, installing recreational equipment, and removing and installing scoreboards.
• Take readings of refrigeration equipment and make necessary compressor adjustments to maintain ice temperature.
• Clean and maintain buildings to include sweeping and mopping floors, picking up and removing trash, performing remedial painting of walls and fixtures, and washing walls, windows, tables, sinks, toilets and related items.
• Maintain and operate building security and fire systems.
• Repair building fixtures and equipment such as doors, windows, locks, sinks, toilets, chairs, tables and lockers.
• Repair dasher boards, concrete floors, condensers, electrical motors, and furnaces; may perform minor welding or metal fabrication work.
• Monitor facility air quality, utilizing air quality measuring device and follow prescribed MDH record keeping.
• Sell and schedule arena rentals, sell tickets, receive payments and maintain records of arena use and cash received, to include bank deposits and daily cash accounting.
• Provide friendly and courteous customer service to parks and arena patrons by sharpening skate, administering emergency first aid, responding to complaints, crowd control and enforcement of arena/park rules.
• Maintain parks, arenas and golf courses by mowing grass, planting and pruning trees, shrubs and bushes, cutting and removing dead trees and brush, watering grass, trees, and flower beds, applying fertilizer and pesticides, picking up and removing leaves, erecting fences, grooming golf greens, fairways, and tees, aerating turf, maintaining sand bunkers, and performing similar duties.
• Remove snow from sidewalks and driveways using shovels, snow blower, or truck with snow blade attachment.
• Operate cross-country snow making and grooming equipment and maintain cross-country skiing trails.
• Operate computer and County software programs to perform various work tasks.
• Install and…