Grounds Maintenance Worker - Parks; Ballfields

Now Hiring:
Grounds Maintenance Worker
- Parks (Ball fields)

Work Hours: 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Monday–Friday). Possible standby hours as needed.

The City of St. Cloud is seeking a dedicated and skilled individual to join our Parks & Recreation team. This position plays a vital role in maintaining and repairing City parks, facilities, and recreational spaces that serve residents and visitors every day.

If you take pride in hands-on work, enjoy working outdoors, and want to make a visible impact in your community, this is the opportunity for you.

• Perform skilled repair and maintenance of parks and recreation facilities
• Maintain buildings, grounds, and equipment
• Respond to facility needs, including possible standby assignments
• Help ensure safe, clean, and welcoming public spaces

• Accountability – Takes responsibility for maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and reliability in all maintenance activities.
• Empowerment – Works collaboratively with team members and takes initiative to solve problems in the field.
• Innovation – Identifies practical improvements and creative solutions to keep facilities operating efficiently.
• Ownership – Demonstrates pride in workmanship and commitment to preserving community assets.

Your work will be seen and appreciated every day, from families enjoying parks to residents participating in recreation programs. This is more than maintenance; it’s protecting and enhancing the spaces that bring our community together.

If you are dependable, skilled, and ready to contribute to something meaningful, we encourage you to apply.

Help us keep St. Cloud beautiful, safe, and thriving.

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Maintains trees and plant life; trims plants and hedges; weeds plant beds; grinds stumps; prunes bushes; cuts and trims trees.
• Sprays herbicides and pesticides; plants trees, bushes, and flowers.
• Operates the riding mower, and smaller mowers, saws, edger, weed eater, blower and smaller power tools
• Removes weeds and debris from working areas, public lands, and other areas.
• Performs regular and routine maintenance, cleaning, repairing and servicing of equipment; reports major equipment problems to the assigned supervisor, and delivers equipment for repair.
• Works on a call-out basis in response to emergencies such as special events, natural disasters, leaks, equipment failures, and other urgency calls.
• Answers citizen and agency representative inquires; refers more complex questions to the assigned supervisor.
• Occasionally installs and repairs irrigation systems.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Requires High School graduation or GED equivalent supplemented six (6) months of experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Must be able to communicate effectively in English.

Must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license with an acceptable driving history.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee is frequently required to move and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to remain stationary; ascend or descend; communicate and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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