Maintenance Worker - Parks

About the role

The City of Cañon City seeks two full-time positions to perform a variety of semi-skilled and unskilled tasks to construct and maintain parks, forest, trails, and cemeteries.

Responsibilities

• Performs grounds maintenance, landscaping, and tree maintenance tasks in city parks, cemetery, and rights-of-way.
• Picks up litter, removes trash, rakes leaves, clears brush, operates irrigation systems, and mows grass.
• Inspects and samples trees, plants, and grass for insect or disease problems. Applies herbicides and pesticides to control weeds and insects.
• Performs rough carpentry, electrical, and plumbing tasks to install, repair, and maintain irrigation systems.
• Cleans, repairs, and maintains public buildings, facilities, parks, public restrooms, campgrounds, recreational facilities, and cemetery.
• Operates equipment such as trimmers, mowers, sprayers, power rakes, aerators, snowplows, trash compactors, dump trucks, loaders, trenchers, chippers, and chain saws to improve, maintain, and repair parks, trails, and/or cemeteries and to plant, prune, or remove trees.
• Maintains equipment operation and reports repair and replacement needs.
• Performs routine maintenance and repairs on small equipment such as chainsaws, mowers, and weed eaters.
• Installs culverts and drainage basins.
• Erects barricades and signs.
• Locates and excavates graves and makes burials.
• Affords assistance with storm clean up, park patrol, and enforcing park rules and regulations.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One year of experience in construction, general laborer, agriculture, or related field.
• Valid unrestricted Colorado Driver’s License, or the ability to obtain within sixty (60) days of employment, with a driving record acceptable to the City of Canon City.
• Ability to obtain a Colorado Class “B” Driver’s License within six (6) months from date of hire. This deadline may be extended at the discretion of the Department Director.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the mission, policies, goals and procedures of Cañon City relating to park, cemetery, and forestry, maintenance, and repair.
• Knowledge of the practices and methods of operating equipment such as trimmers, mowers, sprayers, power rakes, aerators, snow plows, trash compactors, dump trucks, loaders, trenchers, chippers, and chain saws.
• Knowledge of the safe use of hand tools and power tools such as electric saws, drills, cutters, chain saws, shovels, and rakes.
• Ability to operate equipment such as trimmers, mowers, sprayers, power rakes, aerators, snow plows, trash compactors, dump trucks, loaders, trenchers, chippers, and chain saws.
• Improving, maintaining, and repairing parks, trails, and/or cemeteries.
• Planting, pruning, and removing trees.
• Ability to perform routine maintenance and repairs on small equipment such as chainsaws, mowers, and weed eaters.
• Ability to perform rough carpentry, electrical, and plumbing tasks to install, repair, and maintain irrigation systems.
• Ability to perform repair and maintenance duties in public buildings, facilities, parks, and cemetery.
• Ability to perform grounds maintenance and landscaping.
• Ability to perform performing burial duties.
• Ability to use hand tools.
• Ability to understand and follow spoken and/or written directions and/or diagrams.
• Ability to communicate verbally with co-workers and the public.