Trades Worker - Parks Job at Sarasota County Government
Department:
Parks Recreation & Natural Resources
About Our Job
Do you love working outside? We have an opening for an employee that will serve as a member of our Parks, Recreation, and Natural Resources team performing light to heavy physical labor. You will be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of athletic fields and adjunct facilities. From field turf restoration to event and game day preparation, help ensure safe and playable athletic facilities for Sarasota County. Apply today!
Job Description:
- Provides polite, friendly, and accurate customer service.
- Performs proper maintenance techniques to ensure a safe playable surface including maintaining infield skin, infield lips, baselines, warning tracks, pitching mounds, and home plate areas. Includes regular dragging, screen dragging, watering, mowing, edging, and trimming.
- Paint and mark fields, set bases, and pitching mounds under applicable rules and specified dimensions. Provides set-up and cleanup of facilities for practices, games, tournaments, and events. Performs general ground maintenance, repair, and janitorial duties of fields, fencing, common areas, amenities, parking lots, and other areas.
- Conducts parks patrols and general inspections of athletic facilities to ensure the safety of the public. Reports potential safety hazards or maintenance issues to the supervisor for follow-up as necessary.
- Contributes to the decision-making process on the feasibility of playing on the field depending upon weather and field conditions.
- Exercises a high degree of initiative and decision-making to ensure customer satisfaction.
Work Hours: 40 Hours Per Week - 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
About You
Minimum Qualifications:
- A High School Diploma or its equivalent and one year of experience as a semi-skilled laborer in the care and maintenance of parks, landscapes, athletic fields, or other similar grounds.
- Possession of a valid Driver's License at the time of hire.
Preferred Qualifications: Working knowledge of the maintenance of sports fields; understanding of how turfgrass cultural practices affect turf performance. Experience in maintaining higher-level sports field playing surfaces.
Physical Demands: Must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds.
Subject to Passing Substance Screening: This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening. An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years.
About Everything Else
Pay: $15.58 (Step 1)
Employee Type:
Regular (Budgeted)
Benefits:
- Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more!
- Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms and classes at multiple Sarasota County Government locations.
- Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)
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Our vision is to have a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that attracts, develops, retains and engages a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally.
Sarasota County Government promotes diversity and inclusion in its workforce and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, genetic information, religion, national origin, marital status, age or disability. A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.
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Sarasota County Government is a
Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free
Workplace.
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