Sr. Maintenance Worker - City Wide Mowing

Job Description:

Sr. Maintenance Worker - City Wide Mowing

Description

Pay Range: $18.32 - 22.90/hr

Job Posting Closing on: Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Workdays & Hours: 6:30 am to 3:00 pm, Monday- Friday with a weekend rotating schedule during the peak season; March through October.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

Multiple Sr. Maintenance Worker jobs are available with the City of Fort Worth Park & Recreation. The Park & Recreation Department maintains more than 200 parks and public spaces citywide as well as providing recreational activities and educational programming that makes Fort Worth a great place to live, work, and play.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED and three (3) years of general park maintenance and/or construction experience
• Valid Driver’s License
• Must pass physical and drug test

Preferred Qualifications:

• Past experience in operating tractors, zero turn mowers and front-end loaders.
• Proper techniques and uses of a variety of hand and power tools and machinery
• Variety of construction and maintenance activities in the completion of assigned divisional operations

Sr. Maintenance Worker job responsibilities include:

• Operate a variety of hand and small power tools and equipment such as push mowers, weed eaters, stick edgers, backpack blowers, chain saws, pole saws, shovels, rake, pick axes, jack hammers and various other equipment in support of a variety of maintenance and construction operations.
• Maintain park turf, trees and landscape plants using proper mowing, edging, and pruning techniques; collect and haul trash and debris; clean debris from ditches, culverts, and creek beds, maintain hard surfaces and trails.
• Clean and maintain tools, vehicles, and equipment; complete and assist in strenuous repair, installation, or construction activities for the Park and Recreation Department.
• Operate medium and light equipment such as driving brush trucks, tractors, riding mowers, frontend loaders and various other equipment in support of a variety of maintenance and construction operations.
• Perform weekend reservation set up for shelter and park reservations.

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.

Salary:

$18.32 - 22.90/hr