ID 4254
Pay Range 14.22
Close Date: 10/22/21
Landscape Maintenance Worker
Classification Title: Park/Preserve Maintenance Worker, C13
Reporting Location for 1 position:
Lake Seminole Nursery
9300 98th St. N.
Seminole, FL 33777
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The Landscape Maintenance Worker is manual, semi-skilled labor, involving public contact in the maintenance and repair of county parks/preserves, properties, equipment, and facilities. Depending on area of assignment, employees in this class perform a variety of manual labor tasks including landscaping and maintenance work to include mowing, trimming trees, weed eating and blowing.
Essential Job Functions
- Operates lawn maintenance equipment in the mowing, edging, weeding, trimming and pruning of grounds, shrub, trees, and plant beds
- Operates various automotive vehicles and machinery, such as tractors, zero turn mowers, bush hogs, front-end loaders, as well as dump, flatbed, pick-up trucks with trailer and 3/4 ton truck pulling 25 foot landscape trailer.
- Picks up and dumps trash cans.
- Installs and maintains landscape materials.
- Works independently maintaining parks mowing and landscaping.
- Possess basic computer skills for entering timecard, request for leave and request for benefits.
- Performs recordkeeping duties (i.e. service records, basic logs) as required.
- Performs related work as assigned, or required.
Position Specific Requirements
- At least 1 year of park maintenance, park operations, skilled building, construction, facilities, ground maintenance, electronic/mechanical equipment support, laborer; or
- Diploma from the Public Works Academy of the Pinellas Technical Education Center and at least 6 months of the above listed experience; or
- An equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Possession and maintenance of a valid State of Florida Driver’s License upon hire with eligibility based upon evaluation of a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) driving report.
- Assignment to work a variety of work schedules including compulsory work periods in special, emergency, and/or disaster situations.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Knowledge of tools, methods and materials used in general maintenance and all aspects of park/preserve maintenance work.
- Knowledge of department rules, regulations and operating procedures.
- Skill in the use of various tools and equipment associated with park/preserve maintenance work.
- Ability to recognize safety hazards and take precautionary measures to protect self and others.
- Ability to meet the public, give information regarding facilities and enforce rules and regulations.
- Ability to perform instrument repair, basic computer systems, or meter repair work.
- Ability to read basic drawings, blueprints and diagrams.
- Ability to perform heavy manual labor for extended periods, occasionally in adverse weather conditions.
Physical/Mental Demands
The work is heavy work which requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Visual ability: Sufficient to effectively operate office equipment including copier, computer, etc.; and to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, etc.
- Hearing ability: Sufficient to hold a conversation with other individuals both in person and over a telephone; and to hear recording on transcription device.
- Speaking ability: Sufficient to communicate effectively with other individuals in person and over a telephone.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Repetitive motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
Working Conditions
- Work is performed in an environment with heavy equipment and machinery that could result in bodily harm to co-workers or others.
This position has supplemental questions. If unable to complete all questions, you may save your answers as a draft during the application process and return at any time prior to the closing date. Please note that the application is complete upon final submission.
