Parks Technician - Conservation Lands & Resources

Position: Parks Technician I - Conservation Lands & Resources
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** Job Description Summary
** Department - Conservation Lands & Resources#
** Job Description
**** Job Type: Classified
**** Job Classification: 5884 - Parks Technician I
**** Salary Grade: 3
**** Pay Range
**** Hiring Range: $18.24 - $21.44 Per Hour
**** Pay Range: $18.24 - $24.64 Per Hour
**** Range Explanation:
*** Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.
* Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position.

Pima County’s Conservation Lands & Resources Department is seeking a highly motivated and hard-working individual to fill a position as Park Technician I. This position will work within the Parks and Trails Division of Conservation Lands & Resources supporting Pima County’s commitment to conservation. This role will be part of a team that delivers maintenance, construction, campground operations, and restoration projects within Tucson Mountain Park.

The Park Technician I is field-oriented, often in remote areas, with exposure to extreme summer temperatures and cold winter temperatures and requires the candidate to be in excellent physical condition. This is primarily a manual labor position requiring the ability to lift heavy loads; safely operate assigned vehicles and other powered equipment; work in extremes of heat, humidity, dust, and cold;

safely wear required safety clothing and equipment; and ascend and descend ladders and stairs to reach and work upon elevated or below-grade work platforms and job sites. On assigned projects, the extended use of hand tools such as shovels, pickaxes, digging bars, and rakes is required. Invasive species work requires the candidate to mechanically remove or apply chemicals to combat invasive species, and work where venomous animals may be encountered.
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* Essential Functions:

** As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the department’s need and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent by the supervisor.
* Cuts, trims, edges, seeds, fertilizes, stripes ball field and leisure turf;
* Structurally prunes, shapes and maintains urban forest and ground vegetation;
* Performs minor repairs and adjustments to plumbing and irrigation systems;
* Operates ride-on equipment and utilizes powered maintenance and construction equipment/tools;
* Performs operator-level inspections, servicing, maintenance and security of assigned tools, equipment and vehicles;
* Applies paints, varnish, stains, and other finishes to interior and exterior surfaces, trimmings and fixtures;
* Stores, handles, applies and disposes of hazardous materials required to complete work or generated by work assignments;
* Collection and disposal of trash;
* Maintains and uses safety and personal protective equipment;
* Explains rules, regulations or procedures to the public and/or vendors;
* Some positions may be assigned to a natural resource park setting, whereby, maintenance may include wildlife drinkers, ponds, equestrian, camp facilities, trails, habitat restoration, erosion control and invasive species.
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* Minimum Qualifications:

**** Six months of experience performing duties in landscape, grounds maintenance, arborist, equipment operator, general handyman or similar duties in a specific skill, craft, vocation, trade or operational area of employment.****(Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.)
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**** Three months of experience within Pima County as a Parks Helper or other helper level position.
**** Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the "Education" and "Work Experience" sections of the application. Do not substitute a resume for your application or write "see resume" on your application.
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* Preferred Qualifications:

(Be specific in describing your experience in your application. Ensure the descriptions provided illustrate your competencies, specifically addressing the required and preferred qualifications.):
*** Minimum six (6) months experience performing duties in landscape, grounds maintenance, arborist, equipment operator or similar duties in a specific skill, craft, vocation, trade or operational area of employment.
* Minimum six (6) months experience in trails design, construction or maintenance.
* Minimum six (6) months experience with the loading, securing, transport, and field use of equipment, UTVs/ATVs, and a variety of trailers.
* Minimum six (6) months experience working near roadways.
** Selection Procedure:*
* ** Pima County Human Resources Department reserves the right to admit to the selection process only those…