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Basic Function
Perform responsible grounds maintenance duties, including maintaining City parks, playgrounds, greenways, paths, ball fields, and all other vegetation and landscaped areas, as well as, routine maintenance of assigned tools and equipment.
Distinguishing Characteristics
This entry-level position performs the full range of maintenance duties in the assigned activity and operates the full range of equipment utilized in the trade. Incumbents may be assigned to one or more areas of City operations.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Prepare and maintain ball fields, athletic fields, and surrounding landscape areas; prepare fields for athletic competition; drag, repair, prepare and maintain athletic fields, fill infield holes; screen the field; sweep dugouts and clean bleacher areas.
Mark with appropriate marking materials or equipment to delineate the area of play and restricting lines as prescribed and established by league and sport rules; grade and water infields.
Maintain turf by aerating, slicing, and applying fertilizer; maintain flower beds and vegetation in business areas, park sites, and other City sites; inject elm trees according to established procedures.
Lay out grass areas for field events; maintain and repair grass, sod and scraped areas; mow and edge baseball infield and other areas as needed.
Perform a variety of general groundskeeping duties including raking, weeding, trimming trees, fertilizing, transplanting trees and shrubs, and pruning hedges and shrubs.
Operate a variety of grounds maintenance equipment and tools including tractors, over seeder, rototillers, aerators, sod cutters, forklifts, pruners, clippers, line marking machines, small hand and power tools, and trucks of various sizes.
Inspect and repair sprinklers; install irrigation lines and drainage systems for fields.
Maintain swimming pools and related equipment.
Train and provide work direction to assigned summer and part-time personnel.
Perform minor and preventive maintenance and repair work on equipment and facilities; assist with other maintenance work as assigned including painting and mixing, pouring and finishing concrete; plow and shovel snow; paint benches and tables.
Prepare monthly reports regarding safety and equipment; maintain records of equipment, swimming pools and park inspections.
Operate heavier grounds equipment and irrigation systems as required.
Apply pesticides as needed.
Perform seasonal grounds maintenance activities, including ice and snow removal and other projects; assist in winterizing irrigation systems as directed.
