Park and Cemetery Maintenance Worker

Overview

Under general supervision, to do skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled work in assisting in the operation and maintenance of Parks and Recreation property which includes park, cemetery and other municipal property. This is a general position utilized by multiple teams performing maintenance operation tasks within the department which include cemetery, park grounds/aquatic facility operation, horticulture/landscape, natural resource, trail, sports parks, and construction activities.

• Plans and conducts turf grass culture, renovation, and maintenance programs including soil prep/conditioning, sodding, and seeding, watering, weeding, aerating, fertilizing, mowing/trimming, pesticide and herbicide selection and application and seed mix recommendation.
• Performs horticultural and natural resource maintenance tasks; plans, plants, maintains, and removes landscape beds and other plantings; tills, fertilizes, waters, and mulches flower beds and other plantings; mulches trees, shrubs and other plantings; prunes trees and shrubs; assists Forestry in ensuring trees are maintained in a safe and healthy condition; performs weed control in turf, flower beds and other plantings, shrub areas, and general municipal areas.
• Performs facility site maintenance tasks as assigned including minor plumbing of seasonal water start up and shutdown.
• Programs, inspects, maintains, and repairs irrigation and sprinkler system controllers, valves, pipes and related components.
• Ability to utilize cemetery maps to locate burial locations and cemetery spaces for tasks which need to be performed.
• Opens, closes, and maintains cemetery burial sites including locating lot sites, jack hammering, cleanup area around burial services, assist with setup/takedown of burial vaults and tents, serve as a pallbearer as needed, tampering, backfill graves tilling, seeding, topdressing, lead in burials services, perform tasks for cremation burial services, snow removal, operating and performing minor maintenance on cemetery equipment, and operating equipment in tight turning spaces.
• Assist the Cemetery Equipment Operator for opening and graves or for digging foundations for monuments.
• Documentation of work performed for customer requests and for monument, foundation in written or with photos as needed.
• Utilize tools and equipment to reset, level or raise monuments and perform cleaning on monuments as needed.
• Inspects reports and/or may repair, adjust, and lubricate malfunctioning pumps, controllers, and filtration and chlorination components of swimming pool and wading pool operational equipment; develops and implements plans to correct and prevent breakdowns.
• Skims grease, replaces sand, and purges filter system as needed; checks and adjusts water chemistry; tracks use of chemicals and recommends annual purchases.
• Performs snow removal activities ranging from snow shoveling to operating a wing-plow tandem axle truck.
• Performs restroom cleaning, opening, and closing.
• Develop new methods of providing public landscapes which provide for an improved ecology, including rain gardens, bio-swales, controlled burns, and other environmental efforts that provide leadership towards an improved environment.
• Inspects trees and provides maintenance of the urban forest in consults with other forestry staff and consultants.
• Cleans and clears municipal properties of debris, litter and hazardous conditions.
• Provides input on planning projects and may assist on the installation of capital improvement projects.
• Cleans, maintains, and repairs shelters, playgrounds, medians, trails, structures and playing fields, fences, picnic tables, benches, drinking fountains, and retaining walls in park and recreation facilities, using a variety of skills including carpentry, painting, electrical and plumbing.
• Operates pickup trucks with hydraulic trailers, dump trucks, tractors with attachments, gang mowers, generators, garbage compactors, jack hammers, tampers, portable power tools, power riding mowers, power hand mowers, leaf blowers, tillers, sod and weed cutters, augers, chain saws, edger’s, sprayers, aerators, electronic sprinkler controls, and various hand tools…