BMX Athletic Grounds Specialist II - R20125

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Love the Outdoors, Sports, and Making a Difference? Put your skills to work maintaining and enhancing Sarasota County’s BMX Track and athletic facilities! We’re looking for a hands‑on professional with lawn‑care experience, a passion for sports, and top‑notch customer‑service skills. You’ll operate equipment, perform skilled maintenance, and work closely with the local BMX club—while helping our parks and sports community shine.

Apply today and take the lead in keeping Sarasota County’s athletic spaces in championship shape!

• Performance of skilled routine maintenance and repairs of BMX Track/athletic facilities, surfaces and grounds utilizing commercial‑grade mowers and other specialized equipment.
• Performs proper maintenance techniques to ensure a safe BMX track, including maintaining the riding surface, spot repairs, painting lines, start gate repairs, timing system, and ramp repairs. Includes regular mowing, slurrying, watering, edging, and trimming.
• Able to use all types of hand tools, rakes, shovels, tampers, etc. Operates special equipment in the maintenance, repair, and renovation of athletic facilities, including tractors, combinator, box blades, tillers, laser grader, backhoe, and multi‑pro sprayer.
• Performs athletic facility renovations on BMX Track, Baseball, Softball, Football, Soccer, Multi‑purpose fields, and all associated amenities required per project.
• Routine park maintenance includes hand weeding, mulching, digging, turf trimming, tree trimming, hand collection and disposal of litter, removal and installation of plant materials and trees, and driving on roads and vegetated maintenance areas. Equipment includes diesel or gas‑powered commercial‑grade landscape mowers such as Toro Outcross with Tow‑Behind Field Mower, Toro 4000D, 4500D, Reel Mower, and Toro 72 ‘Z’ mower.
• Safely operate, fuel, perform general maintenance, change mower blades, clean equipment, perform small‑engine repairs and safety checks on all listed equipment. These tasks will require use of pneumatic, power, and hand tools.
• Maintains records of work performed, including submitting time to the work‑management system. Completes electronic reporting forms, including inspection reports, safety checks, incident forms, etc.
• Works with staff, facilities maintenance, volunteers, and contractors to ensure the park and facility are clean, safe, and accessible for public use, and that maintenance areas are maintained to the desired level of service to promote local programming and sports tourism initiatives.
• Other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Work Hours:

• Operating Days:
  Sunday – Saturday
• Work Full‑Time, 40 hours per week
• 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. shifts
• Enjoy a flexible, rotating schedule that supports park operations and special events
• Be ready to jump in for occasional evening or weekend shifts during exciting community events

• High School Diploma or equivalent education.
• Three (3) years of experience, education, training, or any combination of experience, education, and training in the renovation of athletic fields.
• Valid Florida Driver’s License by date of hire.

• Previous experience with the renovation and/or maintenance of a BMX or athletic facilities.
• Operate special equipment in the maintenance, repair, and renovation of athletic facilities, including tractors, combinator, box blades, tillers, laser grader, backhoe, multi‑pro sprayer, etc.

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 for a period of five (5) years.

This position must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs, with the use of a handling device or working with another team member to lift and/or move excessive poundage of 50 plus pounds.

• Starting Pay: $22.14/hr (Step
  1). Potential higher pay (steps) for those with multiple years of experience.
• Interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in‑person interview(s).
• If you are selected to join our team, please review the Required First Day Documents (link removed).
• I‑9 Acceptable Documents:
  Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. If your position requires a U.S. Social Security Card, this must be presented. Failure to provide these documents may jeopardize timely compensation.
• Additional documents: U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card).