Parks & Public Grounds Supervisor- Park/Sports Complex

About the role

The position serves as a supervisor for the maintenance of city properties, public grounds, and Parks and Recreation facilities and amenities. It involves coordinating, overseeing, and participating in various maintenance activities.

Responsibilities

• Schedules crew to ensure adequate, efficient staffing to carry out routine and non-routine maintenance activities.
• Assists Manager in personnel management activities including scheduling, time verification, discipline, and performance evaluation of subordinate staff.
• Performs leadership duties including training, instructing, assigning, and reviewing work, planning projects, and maintaining standards.
• Coordinates activities required to maintain properties and amenities to City standards.
• Plans, organizes, and directly supervises crewmembers ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures and with concern for safety, quality, and efficiency.
• Recognizes maintenance needs and plans and organizes work activities to satisfy those needs.
• Avoids repeating procedures and redoing tasks.
• Assigns staff to meet goals and objectives with emphasis on promoting employee growth and potential realization.
• Attends meetings to facilitate communication with manager, staff, other Public Grounds Supervisors, other departments, the public, contractors, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, and/or resolve problems.
• Advises and responds to requests for service or assistance and provides feedback.
• Maintains inventory of supplies and ensures availability of adequate equipment and materials to conduct work activities.
• Contacts vendors and schedules demonstrations of equipment for potential purchase. Initiates requests for new or replacement items.
• Prepares yearly budget for the financial support of all planned projects, programs, and services and implements activities and improvements in accordance with the Division maintenance plan.
• Approves expenses and monitors expenditures against budgeted amounts.
• Ensures the maintenance and care of equipment used in daily operations.
• Schedules and performs preventative maintenance activities on Division equipment and ensures such schedules are adhered to.
• Fulfills safety procedures, reports unsafe activities and conditions, utilizes safety equipment, and monitors work environment to ensure safety of employees and other individuals and insists on the same from subordinate staff.
• Conducts regular safety inspections of equipment, facilities, and personal protective equipment assigned to crewmembers.
• Conducts safety meetings and trains employees in safe operational procedures.
• Ensures all work is performed in accordance with applicable codes, policies, procedures, regulations, and standards of safety and quality.
• Utilizes stand-alone and networked computers and software required for payroll and maintenance activity tracking and reporting.
• Communicates effectively using various methods including oral, written, phone, text message, and email.
• Provides adequate records of labor, materials, and equipment used in the completion of work and ensures that information is accurately logged in MainTrac maintenance tracking software program.
• Participates in other Public Grounds maintenance and special event activities and performs other related duties as required or assigned by Manager.

Qualifications

• Six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in grounds maintenance, management, or construction.
• Valid driver's license.
• Graduate of NRPA Maintenance Management School (or within two years of hire).
• May be required to possess one or more of the following: Associates degree or certificate in Sports turf or Golf Course Management, a valid S.C. commercial driver's license, a valid S.C. Non-Commercial Pesticide Applicator License (category 3, 5, and/or 6), Playground Safety Inspector Certification, ISA Arborist Certification (Municipal Specialist preferred), or obtain such within 1 year of hire.

Skills

• Operates a variety of standard and specialized machinery, equipment, and tools associated with the maintenance of City grounds.
• Utilizes tools such as saws, drills, hammer, mowing and trenching tools, hand tools, etc., and makes recommendations for acquisition and/or replacement of such.
• Uses stand-alone and networked computers and software required for payroll and maintenance activity tracking and reporting.
• Communicates effectively using various methods including oral, written, phone, text message, and email.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$55,000.00 Annually

Schedule

Full-time