Parks Lead Maintenance Specialist

Lead Parks Maintenance Specialist – Job Overview

At the City of Wilsonville, we believe parks are more than places. They’re where our community comes together. From neighborhood green spaces to active sports fields, our parks are at the heart of daily life.

We’re looking for a Lead Parks Maintenance Specialist to help lead the care, improvement, and stewardship of these spaces. We want someone who takes pride in their work, values teamwork, and is committed to serving the community.

In Wilsonville, we show up with purpose. We work together. We take ownership. And we care deeply about the people and places we serve. This role is about:

• Leading with integrity
• Supporting your team
• Creating safe, welcoming public spaces
• Delivering high-quality work that the community can see and feel

As a Lead Parks Maintenance Specialist, you’ll organize, guide, and work alongside the crew to maintain and enhance Wilsonville’s parks and nature spaces. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and coordinating daily work activities for assigned crews
• Planning, scheduling, and prioritizing maintenance and improvement projects
• Training staff in safe and effective work practices
• Maintaining park grounds, sport fields, irrigation systems, and landscape features
• Operating and maintaining a variety of tools, vehicles, and equipment
• Ensuring high-quality, safe, and efficient work is completed on time
• Responding to community questions and supporting positive public interactions

Success in this role means parks and facilities are clean, safe, and well maintained, creating spaces the community can enjoy with confidence. Your team feels supported, respected, and set up to succeed, with clear direction and a positive working environment. Work is completed efficiently and to a high standard, reflecting pride in every detail. Most importantly, community members feel welcomed, valued, and proud of the spaces they share.

The ideal candidate has the ability to lead crews, prioritize work, and manage multiple tasks effectively. A strong understanding of tools, equipment, irrigation systems, and maintenance practices is essential, along with a commitment to quality work and team success.

Working for the City of Wilsonville means doing work that has a real, visible impact on the community every day. You’ll be part of a team that values collaboration, respect, and supporting one another, while also giving you opportunities to lead, grow, and make a difference in the spaces people rely on. It’s a culture built on service, trust, and pride—where the work you do helps create and maintain places the community truly cares about.

If you're passionate about maintaining beautiful, functional spaces and leading a team that takes pride in their work, we’d love to hear from you. Help us care for the places where Wilsonville comes together.

Under the direct supervision of the Parks Supervisor, leads and performs a variety of skilled and semi-skilled work in the coordination, preparation, repair, and maintenance of park grounds and sport/activity fields; installation, maintenance, and repair of sprinkler irrigation systems; and the construction of special landscaping or public use areas. The Lead Parks Maintenance Specialist is the lead worker responsible for organizing and overseeing the work activities of one or more crews.

Receives general supervision from assigned supervisory or management personnel. Exercises technical and functional direction over and provides training to lower-level classifications.

This is the advanced journey-level in the Parks Maintenance series that performs the most complex duties required to ensure that City infrastructure, systems, and parks facilities to which assigned are maintained in a safe and effective working condition and provide the highest level of safety for public use. Responsibilities include performing a wide variety of tasks in the inspection, maintenance, and repair of assigned parks facilities and systems in a timely manner.

This class is distinguished from the Parks Maintenance Specialist classification in that the latter is a journey-level class…