Senior Parks​/Facilities Maintenance Worker (12497 Grade HL3

Senior Parks/Facilities Maintenance Worker

Are you someone who enjoys working outdoors, to keep our Parks appealing and combat climate change? Are you looking to work with an organization that promotes your growth and development? Do you want to work with leaders that listen to your perspective and value your knowledge and experience? If this sounds like you, the Montgomery County Department of Parks, Northern Parks Division, is the place you want to be!

We are currently seeking multi-faceted, highly motivated individuals to fill the role of a Senior Parks/Facilities Maintenance Worker at Olney Manor Recreational Park.

The Olney Manor Management Area is made up of 44 parks. These parks cover 3841 acres and include 3 Recreational Parks, Local Parks, Conservation Parks, Neighborhood Parks, 50 athletic fields, 50 tennis courts, and 36 playgrounds. Under the supervision of a Parks/Facilities Maintenance Leader, this role performs park and maintenance work involving considerable responsibility, complexity, and variety. The successful candidate will support various park maintenance programs and perform a variety of general park maintenance tasks such as equipment operation, routine ground maintenance, playground repairs, trash removal, local athletic field renovation and maintenance, trail maintenance, and tree planting, pruning, and aftercare by working with other team members.

The ideal candidate should possess skills to operate light automotive and motorized power equipment; trucks, tractors with attachments, large riding mowers, loaders, forklifts and apply chemical pesticides. Position requires working days, nights, and weekends.

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is a six-time National Recreational and Parks Association Gold Medal Award Winner, has a career staff complement of nearly 800 employees, and we serve a diverse population of more than one million residents in the Washington, DC area. We manage 415 parks on over 37,100 acres of parkland.

Please Note:

The salary range listed above represents the earning potential for this position. Salary is commensurate with education and experience.

Very flexible benefits package!

All applicants to this job posting will be considered for this and future Senior Parks/Facilities Maintenance Worker job openings for 6 months or until all qualified candidates have been exhausted from this job posting. At that time, a new job posting may be available for application to future openings.

Operate riding mowers and tractors with attachments to mow parks, ball fields, and brush.

Operate trucks, non-CDL truck and trailer combinations, non-CDL trash trucks, front-end loader, backhoe, skid steer, non-CDL dump trucks with snowplows and heavy equipment removing snow, grading fields and other park areas.

Haul materials and equipment.

Perform routine safety inspection and maintenance of vehicles and equipment.

Occasionally perform routine custodial maintenance and repairs to park buildings and structures.

Maintain athletic fields including lay out of fields (measure, plot and square corners, plot yard lines, and mark lines) and aerate, overseed, and fertilize turf areas.

Install amenities such as signs, grills, picnic tables, fence (chain link and split rail), basketball rims and nets.

Perform tree maintenance duties. Operates chain saws. Operate chipping machine to grind brush into mulch.

Operate stump grinder to remove tree stumps.

Assist with transporting supplies and setting up special events.

Provide general assistance to park visitors and assist with programs and events.

Ability to communicate in another language a plus.

Performs stormwater facilities preventive maintenance according to the Department of Environment Protection standards.

Maintain bioretention and rain garden facilities with balanced vegetation free of weeds.

Important Skills and Characteristics:

Knowledge of work procedures, steps and standard tasks and techniques for routine (1) grounds maintenance and trails maintenance; (2) landscaping; (3) basic building maintenance and custodial work processes; (4) safety procedures; (5) cleaning agents, procedures, and equipment; (6)…