Athletic Field Maintenance Worker, Part-Time

General Purpose

Performs a variety of entry-level duties related to the construction, installation, and maintenance of athletic facilities, performs skilled work pertaining to sports field.

Supervision

Received: Works under the general to close supervision of the Recreation Manager.

Exercised: None

Essential Functions

• Performs the preparation of athletic fields for play, duties include painting lines, dragging and raking in-fields, chalking infields, preparing pitching mounds and home plate areas, and maintaining skinned areas to the appropriate firmness
• Repairs and renovates turf areas when damaged
• Assist in the repair and maintenance of equipment, vehicles, and tools
• Maintains all city recreation fields
• Has primary responsibility for the maintenance and accountability of departmental equipment
• Cleaning of restrooms and emptying trash
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience: Graduation from high school or G.E.D.; AND sufficient experience to demonstrate the ability to perform essential functions; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Some knowledge of horticulture, planting, cultivating, pruning, and general care for plants, trees, shrubs and flowers; application of pesticides, fertilization, and soil amendments; drainage control, sprinkler system operation and maintenance, including pumps, several types of heads, automatic controllers and weather stations; maintenance of all grounds keeping equipment; reading of landscape drawings and blue prints, installation of parks
• Skill in the operation and use of office machines and equipment such as, computer, 10-key, fax, printer, copy machine and telephone. Also requires frequent use of athletic field equipment
• Ability to work weekends and holidays when needed; maintain safe working conditions; respond effectively and make responsible decisions in emergency or unusual situations; follow written and oral instructions; to establish and maintain good working relationships with employees, other supervisors and the public; perform manual or strenuous physical labor on a limited basis; communicate effectively, verbally and in writing

Special Qualifications

• Must be at least 16 years old

Work Environment

• Work involves walking, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reaching with hands and arms
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus
• The employee may be required to push, pull, lift, and/or carry up to 80 pounds
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet while in the office and moderately loud when in the field
• Work may periodically require the employee to climb, balance, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl
• The employee may be required to work in outside weather conditions, in wet and/or humid conditions, in high, precarious places, near moving mechanical parts, near fumes, airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals, or near risk of electrical shock and/or vibration