Maintenance/Seasonal - Parks Resources

About the Role

Join our team as a Seasonal Maintenance Worker and help keep city parks, public spaces, and facilities clean, safe, and welcoming for everyone. In this hands-on role, you’ll assist with a variety of tasks including grounds upkeep, facility cleaning, basic repairs, and general maintenance across parks, public rights-of-way, and city infrastructure. Every day brings something new, and your work will directly support the spaces where our community gathers, plays, and connects. This is a great opportunity for individuals who enjoy physical, active work and take pride in maintaining beautiful public spaces while gaining valuable experience in maintenance and construction support.

This position is open to applicants 18 years of age and older. Must be 19 years of age to drive a city vehicle. Works full-time, 40 hours per week, for up to 8 months from March through October. Hours include mornings, days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Operates push or self-propelled lawn mowers following prescribed weekly schedule. Transports self and equipment from site to site using pickup truck and trailer. Work may be performed adjacent to or on public rights-of-way. Operates self-propelled units with horsepower greater than 20 horsepower capacity (riding mowers with rotary type cutting capability from 60" to 15'). Safely loads and unloads at multiple sites daily. Ensures care of machinery and safety around the public.
• Plants and weeds flower beds, prunes shrubs and plants, shears ornamental shrubs, cleans display fountains, recognizes and reports various fungi, installs seed and/or sod, picks up litter, and disposes of debris. Applies light herbicides and fertilizers under direct supervision.
• Empties 30-gallon trash receptacles, lines containers with plastic bags, replaces lids, and picks up scattered debris throughout parks on a scheduled route.
• Cleans restrooms at approximately 20 sites per day without supervision, including facilities that incur frequent vandalism. Uses strong chemicals to achieve sanitary results.
• Assists with pruning, planting, and removal of trees using chainsaws, handsaws, pole pruners, and other tools. Works with and around heavy equipment such as wood chippers, stump grinders, and tree spades under supervision.
• Operates, repairs, and programs electronic sprinkler systems. Troubleshoots assigned sites, operates pumps, wells, electronic controllers, and valves.
• Prepares sports fields to achieve safe and professional playing conditions, including repairing sprinklers, cleaning restrooms, laying out field dimensions, and operating machinery.
• Performs general maintenance on building sites, including furniture repairs and replacement, painting, concrete/asphalt repairs, carpentry, and plumbing repairs.
• Assists with set-up, care, and maintenance of burial sites in cemeteries, including cleaning and straightening headstones, string trimming, and mowing.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of construction and landscape techniques; general cleaning and janitorial methods.
• Ability to:
  • Utilize hand and power tools safely.
  • Perform general maintenance and repairs to park facilities.
  • Interact with the public and co-workers in a friendly and professional manner.
  • Display an attitude of cooperation and work harmoniously with all levels of city employees, the general public, and other organizations.
  • Communicate effectively in the English language at a level necessary for efficient job performance.
  • Complete assignments in a timely fashion.
  • Understand and comply with all rules, policies, and regulations.
  • Maintain prompt and regular attendance.
  • Perform all essential and marginal functions as assigned with or without a reasonable accommodation.
• Capable of operating vehicles safely with an acceptable driving record.
• Must pass a City of Boise background check, including a criminal history check and reference checks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years of construction, general landscape, or agricultural experience.

Licensing and Other Requirements

• Valid state-issued driver’s license.

Working Conditions

Physical Efforts

• Frequently lifts, carries, pushes, or pulls up to 35 pounds; occasionally up to 100 pounds.
• Noise level is frequently very loud.
• Requires sensory abilities including talking, hearing, and touch.
• Requires close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Involves sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, grasping, climbing, and balancing.
• Requires hand/finger dexterity.

Work Environment

• Works in inside conditions, outdoor weather conditions, extreme temperatures, wet and humid conditions, and areas with dust, odors, mist, and gases or other airborne matter.
• Exposed to mechanical hazards and chemicals.
• Drives a vehicle as part of the position.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week for up to 8 months (March through October). Hours include mornings, days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.