Senior Groundsworker

Overview
The Senior Grounds worker position with the City of Carson involves leading and working with a crew to maintain parks, athletic fields, landscaped areas, and public facilities. This leadership role emphasizes safety, cleanliness, and visual appeal for residents and visitors of the City. Vacancy Information

There is one full-time (FSLA Non-exempt) vacancy, with a 4/10 schedule:
Monday to Thursday, 6:00 am to 4:30 pm (includes a 30-minute unpaid lunch break). Work hours and/or work schedule may be changed based on the needs of the City.

Under general supervision; leads, coordinates, supervises and works with a crew engaged in the maintenance of turf, landscaped areas, City Hall, Community Center, Corporation Yard and Park facilities. Oversees and coordinates work of grounds workers, maintenance workers, temporary workers and senior citizens assigned to grounds maintenance. Supervises and works closely with a crew of 5-7 employees engaged in a variety of specialized and skilled grounds maintenance activities in the care of City facilities.

The major purpose of the work is to provide properly maintained grounds and athletic fields that are free from litter and aesthetically pleasing for public use and for the enjoyment of recreational programs and activities.

(These functions are representative and may not be present in all positions in the class. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind related duties and work assignments.)

• Provide supervision and leadership for 5-7 subordinate employees.
• Train, coordinate, plan and assign duties.
• Design, install new systems; redesign existing irrigation systems.
• Repair and/or replace controllers.
• Read irrigation blueprints.
• Repair, adjust, replace and maintain irrigation line and sprinkler heads.
• Monitor backflow repairs.
• Install new valves.
• Locate existing valves and repair or replace.
• Install, redesign or modify existing ball diamonds.
• Grade, renovate, and maintain pitching rubbers, home plate and base pegs.
• Aerate, renovate, re-seed, perform layout and burn-in for soccer and football fields; mark lines for baseball fields.
• Wash and blow playing fields and courts.
• Design, embellish, landscape, prepare soil for planting flowers, shrubs, hedges.
• Transplant, trim, prune, apply weed killer, fertilize and control disease.
• Aerate, renovate, re-seed, fertilize and control disease, gopher and weeds.
• Mow, edge grass with the appropriate and specialized equipment.
• Inspect, plant, trim, fertilize, stake, transplant, and check for disease.
• Operate a variety of equipment associated with grounds maintenance; fork-lift, fertilizer spreader, turf sweeper, water truck, hustler mower, weed eater, back-pack blower and other tools.
• Provide grounds maintenance support.
• Train and provide work direction to subordinate staff, train them on the safe and proper use of tools and equipment.
• Assign and review work, participate in the evaluation process of the employees assigned to our crew.
• Ensure crew works in a safe environment.
• Wear uniforms and necessary safety clothing.
• Act as a liaison between maintenance and contractors on new additions and refurbishment of existing grounds and park facilities.
• Inspect, troubleshoot, and repair problems created by contractors.
• Prepare labor distribution sheets, safety records, service request ledgers, materials distribution reports, irrigation schedules, equipment preventative maintenance records and other maintenance activity records.
• Assist in budget preparation by providing input on costs and kinds of equipment, materials and other supplies; assist in matters relating to disaster and emergency response and recovery efforts.
• Maintain routine records related to equipment operation and maintenance, service requests and other grounds maintenance activities.
• Performs related duties as required.

A typical way to obtain the requisite qualifications to perform the duties of this class is as follows:

Education And Experience
Graduation from high school or equivalent. Three (3) years of skilled-level grounds maintenance experience.

Knowledge Of

• Methods, equipment and materials used in grounds maintenance work.
• Principl…