Location: Amarillo,TX, USA
Starting Salary $15.886/Hour
Job Description
This is a great position for someone who enjoys working outdoors and leading others. This position allows great opportunities for personal and professional development through the City of Amarillo Tuition Reimbursement Program and other advancement opportunities.
SUMMARY
Under general direction, this position supervises leads, instructs, trains and assists multiple crews that perform skilled and semi-skilled job assignments with minimal supervision. Duties include the care and keeping of the City Parks. This position will be required to work shifts including evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and rotating on call as necessary by the department, and during inclement weather. This position is considered weather essential personnel.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
* Supervises crews, technicians, utility workers and seasonal employees; trains, evaluates and assist supervisor in administering disciplinary actions as appropriate.
* Oversees the grounds keeping, maintenance and repair of City parks, swimming pools, splash pads, fountains and playground equipment.
* Purchases or submits purchase requests for needed materials, playground equipment, swimming pool equipment, tools and supplies.
* Maintains irrigation and fertilizer systems.
* Trains all employees in the section on the proper and safe use of all equipment and tools that they use in their daily work, and monitors compliance with safety guidelines.
* Actively monitors the assigned parks and uses judgment when areas of concern are identified; consults supervisor regarding the appropriate action to be taken.
* Works with the supervisor in planning upcoming projects, and establishing an understanding of the desired outcome, time frame, and manner in which the project is to be completed.
* Operates and oversees a crew that operates tractors, front end loaders, and dump trucks.
* Maintains a list of tools and supplies that will be proposed for purchase at the time of annual budget approval.
* Inspects parks or facilities regularly, and writes daily job sheets.
* Responds to complaints or hazards that are called in by a citizen or another City employee; gives priority to hazardous situations like broken playground equipment, or unsafe conditions at pools or splash pads.
* Maintains an inventory of chemicals that are used at swimming pools and insures that each facility is fully stocked each week during operation.
* Accounts for all City property assigned to the crews and participates in inventories as assigned.
* Uses a credit card with a limit of $3,000 for routine purchase of supplies.
* Supervise employees that operate aerial lift trucks, skid loaders and front end loaders.
* Oversees the upkeep/maintenance, and repair of all of swimming pool facilities and equipment such as automated chemical feed systems, circulation pumps , filtration systems as well as routine building maintenance, restroom plumbing etc.
* Oversees maintenance and repair of all playground equipment at all city parks.
* Oversees operation and maintenance of splash pads, adjust controllers for scheduling and seasonal operation.
* Oversees the instillation and removal of all downtown Christmas decorations.
* Works in direct and indirect contact with hazardous chemicals such as chlorine and hydrochloric acid.
* While in the field, connects to the City of Amarillo's Network to upload data and download and write reports of accidents, prepare employee documentation of various types, compose emails to personnel of other departments and communicate with the supervisors on various matters.
* Performs quality assurance checks and inspections to ensure that workmanship meets expectations and standards.
* Receives and responds to work orders and follows instructions given orally and/or in writing.
* Issues instructions to the crew in a clear, concise and understandable manner.
* Effectively communicates with supervisors, subordinates, fellow employees and the general public.
* Controls, monitors and makes adjustments to work plans and assignments to achieve the desired final results for a specified project.
* Accounts for and maintains assigned tools, materials and equipment.
* Maintains safe working environment through compliance with occupational safety rules and practices.
* Completes daily job reports and other reports as needed.
* Operates machinery, equipment or vehicles and instructs others in their safe and appropriate use.
* Performs manual work when needed to assist in the performance of various tasks.
* Takes 24-hour calls on a rotating schedule.
* Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
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Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
* Ability to operate computers for data entry and word processing.
* Ability to use complex automated swimming pool equipment and train others on its use.
* Strong verbal and written communication skill.
* Ability to operate small office equipment, including copy machines or multi-line telephone systems.
* Knowledge of and ability to skillfully operate and occasionally repair aerial lift trucks, skid loaders, front end loaders, tree spades, stump grinders, and wood chippers, and small tractors with various implements such as tillers, plows, discs, and snow removal blade.
* Knowledge of water irrigation methods and equipment.
* Knowledge of proper handling of and safety procedures for storage of pesticides, herbicides and other hazardous chemicals.
Licenses/Certification
Required Qualifications
* Requires a High School Diploma or its equivalent and a minimum of three years of experience in park maintenance or a related field.
* Pesticide Applicator License must be obtained within six months. Valid Class A Texas Commercial Driver's License preferred. Must be able to obtain a Certified Pool Operators license and a Certified Playground Safety Inspectors license within one year of employment.
* *The City of Amarillo will consider all relevant education and experience when determining an applicants minimum qualifications ad starting salary.
Preferred Qualifications
Physical Demands
The employee must also balance, stoop, crouch, climb, crawl, walk, stand, kneel, sit, hear, feel, finger, grasp, handle, reach, speak, see, and talk. Also requires the ability to make rational decisions and perform repetitive motions.
The employee works in work in a dynamic outdoor environment that requires the employee to be sensitive to change and responsive to changing goals, priorities, and needs.
EEO/ADA
The City of Amarillo is an Equal Opportunity employer and encourages applications from eligible and qualified persons regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information or protected veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law.
Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is required to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. The employee must also balance, stoop, crouch, climb, crawl, walk, stand, kneel, sit, hear, feel, finger, grasp, handle, reach, speak, see, and talk. Also requires the ability to make rational decisions and perform repetitive motions.
The City of Amarillo provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities on a case by case basis. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please contact the Human Resources Office at 806-###-####.
The City of Amarillo is an Equal Opportunity employer and encourages applications from eligible and qualified persons regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information or protected veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law.
The City of Amarillo provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities on a case by case basis. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please contact the Human Resources Office at 806-###-####.