Maintenance Worker - Streets & Grounds

About the role

This is a semi-skilled manual labor position responsible for maintaining grounds of City property. See addendum for additional specific departmental duties.

Responsibilities

• Perform landscaping tasks such as mowing lawns or athletic fields, trimming and edging walks, flower beds, and walls, pruning shrubs and trees, spraying herbicides and insecticides, fertilizing and raking.
• Clean grounds and remove litter.
• Plant and water grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs.
• Repair structures such as fences, gates, walls, and walks.
• Paint fences and outbuildings.
• Pour new sidewalks and streets.
• Operate various motorized equipment such as mowing equipment, trucks, tractors, 5 yd dump trucks, etc.
• Perform irrigation maintenance and repairs such as cleaning out drainage ditches and culverts, installing plumbing, storm drainage lines or sprinkler systems, identifying pipe specifications, etc.
• Repair and maintain streets or facilities such as sports fields or playgrounds.
• Perform other semi-skilled and unskilled labor such as basic carpentry, electric, roofing and plumbing repairs.
• Provide routine and basic maintenance and repair to small equipment.
• Attend work promptly and regularly.
• Perform related work as required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Two (2) years related experience and/or training, including experience in operating automotive or maintenance equipment.

Skills

• Some knowledge of tools, methods, materials and equipment used in performance of maintenance related work.
• Knowledge of occupational hazards as necessary safety precautions applicable to laboring work.

Benefits

• The City offers 4 health insurance plans: Three (3) through Florida Health Care Plans (FHCP) and one (1) through Florida Blue (Blue Options Network).
• Health Insurance includes Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for Plans 1 and 2, and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for Plans 3 and 4.
• Employer-paid basic group life and AD&D insurance.
• Voluntary supplemental group life and AD&D insurance.
• Aflac voluntary benefits.
• Retirement options include 401(a) and 457(b) plans, with employer contributions.
• 13 paid holidays annually.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in the job posting.

Required Question

• Do you have a valid Driver's License?
• Do you have a High School diploma or GED?