Parks Maintenance Technician

The City of Oxnard's Public Works Department, Parks Division, is seeking a Parks Maintenance Technician to join the team. This position will be responsible for maintenance and repair of the grounds, vegetation, and infrastructure along the parkways, medians, and rights-of-way throughout the City, as well as supporting the maintenance and cleanliness of municipal parks and facilities. The ideal candidate will have a positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a passion for serving their community as a team player.

• Maintain plantings, grounds, and infrastructure in municipal parks, street landscapes, recreation areas, and facility grounds.
• Inspect parks, recreation areas, and assigned facilities to identify maintenance, cleanliness, safety, vandalism, and repair needs. Document findings and report or initiate corrective work as appropriate.
• Utilize the City’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to receive, update, and close work orders, and complete assigned inspections and checklists.
• Clean and maintain public restrooms, including toilets, urinals, sinks, floors, fixtures, and related facilities. Perform routine custodial duties to maintain safe, clean, and sanitary public spaces.
• Collect and remove trash, litter, and debris from parks and rights-of-way.
• Water, mow, weed, trim, edge, renovate, aerate, and fertilize lawns; weed, prune, mulch, feed, fertilize, and irrigate shrubs, trees, and flower beds; mix and apply fertilizer and may apply pesticides and herbicides; install and maintain irrigation equipment and sprinklers; clean, maintain, and pick up rubbish and debris from landscaped areas, paved areas, paths and walks, median traffic islands, fields, courts and other facilities;
• Assist in installation, moving and repair of playground and related recreational equipment; maintain and prepare athletic fields; grade, fill and shape baseball diamonds; oversee and participate in the removal of graffiti; perform rodent abatement activities.
• Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles, equipment, tools and related safety equipment; drive vehicles required to transport materials, tools and equipment; operate commercial motorized equipment such as gang mowers and edgers, tractors, front-end loaders, sprayers, graffiti removal apparatus and other related equipment;
• Operate a variety of hand and power tools such as hand mowers, edgers, blowers, hedge trimmers, weed eaters, chain saws, rakes, shovels, hoes, brooms, and other maintenance tools.
• Implement traffic control measures at job sites, including sign placement, traffic control arrow board, and coning.
• Maintain records of work performed; enter data properly.
• Perform duties in a professional and safe manner. Follow all safety and personnel rules, policies, and processes. Assist and train less experienced personnel; understand, implement, and train personnel in proper safety procedures.
• Respond to questions and concerns from the general public; provide information as is appropriate and resolve complaints.
• Demonstrate a full understanding of applicable policies, procedures, work methods and safety requirements associated with assigned duties.

Maintenance Technician

Receives close supervision and specific direction regarding assignments and deadlines.

This classification is distinguished from the Maintenance Worker in that it provides semi-skilled or skilled general maintenance work.

The normal work week is a 5/40 schedule; 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM either Tuesday through Saturday or Sunday through Thursday. Depending on the work assignment, staff may be assigned to a shift that is outside the standard work hours, including…