Public Grounds & Maintenance Technician

The City of Omaha is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and an E-Verify participant.

Posted 3 days ago | Apply before June 4, 2026

Posting Type: Open Competitive

Work Type: Full Time

Nature of Work: This is physical, at times heavy, manual labor.

Education and Experience: The knowledge, skills, and abilities may be acquired through, but are not limited to, the following combination of education and/or experience.

High school graduation or its equivalent preferred.

Special

Qualifications:

Must possess a valid motor vehicle operators license.

Pay Range: $18.80 with step increases to $24.64 hourly

Benefits: Forty-hour work week. Paid leave per year: twelve days vacation; eighteen days sick; and fourteen holidays. Employee’s group health insurance, including major medical, vision, and dental, for individual or family. Defined benefit pension plan, plus Social Security, and more. See hr.cityofomaha.org for detailed information.

Who Can Apply: Any person who meets the qualifications and other requirements described in this posting.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to understand oral or written instructions
• Ability to adhere to safety policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees and members of the general public
• Ability to balance, stand, walk, and lift for up to eight hours or more; reach, bend, stoop, and push for up to six hours or more; kneel for up to four hours or more; and climb, squat, crouch, and crawl for up to two hours or more
• Ability to move objects weighing up to one hundred (100) pounds of force up to 33% of the time; to move objects up to fifty (50) pounds from 34 to 66% of the time; and to move objects weighing up to twenty (20) pounds from 67 to 100% of the time

Essential Functions: Any one position may not perform all of the duties listed, nor do the listed examples include all of the duties that may be performed in positions allocated to this class. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Mows grass and pulls or sprays weeds
• Sweeps and picks up refuse and debris from the streets, parks, and other public property
• Shovels snow and spreads salt and gravel
• Prepares flower beds by digging, raking, grinding and sifting soil, mulching leaves, and watering
• Installs or repairs fences and performs minor maintenance, such as painting park equipment and facilities
• Assists with the disassembly, repair or replacement, and operation of such equipment as polymer, siphon, and vacuum filter feed pumps and clarifiers, and adds polymer, sewer aid, and sodium hypochloride to wastewater
• Maintains inventories of cleaning and maintenance supplies
• Monitors greenhouse thermostats
• Maintains regular job attendance in accordance with a schedule established for the position by the supervisor
• Performs other related duties as assigned or as the situation dictates within the scope of this classification

For a complete description of this job classification, visit hr.cityofomaha.org.