Maintenance Specialist I

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This position is semi-skilled and requires manual work in maintaining the City's roads, drainage system, signs, landscaping/grounds, irrigation systems, trash collection, ballfields, facilities, and fire hydrant checks.

• Maintains various grounds, fields, and parks by performing mowing, weeding, tilling, raking, digging, and other manual labor tasks.
• Prepares fields for athletic activities such as lining and raking.
• Performs repair and maintenance on the drainage systems, cleans ditches and canals.
• Installs turf and seeds on fields, parks, and other grounds.
• Helps maintain equipment and facilities by performing manual labor and semi-skilled work.
• Performs building maintenance functions, including, but not limited to, painting, carpentry, plumbing, etc.
• Repairs and installs irrigation systems.
• Operates and performs preventative maintenance on vehicles and equipment.
• Performs street repairs such as filling potholes and minor repaving.
• Repairs and erects traffic, street, and park signage.
• During a natural disaster or storm event, such as a hurricane or tsunami, report to work as required. Public Works is considered essential personnel.
• On occasion, may be required to work in sensitive locations.
• Other job-related duties as required.

• High school graduation or possession of an acceptable equivalency diploma
• Some maintenance/laboring experience
• Must possess a valid Florida Driver's License
• Ability to obtain Florida Stormwater Operator certification within one year of employment

• Knowledge of landscape maintenance and turf installation.
• Knowledge of tools and equipment to do related work.
• Knowledge of grounds keeping practices and principles.
• Knowledge of general building and street maintenance work.
• Ability to perform heavy manual labor under various weather conditions.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Skill in the operation and preventative maintenance of equipment and related tools.