Utility Worker

Utility Worker

Ontario, Oregon, United States

About the Job Utility Worker

Qualifications:

• A valid driver's license

Responsibilities:

• 2026 seasonal positions for the Parks and Cemetery Dept.
• Maintains parks, cemeteries, and medians/parkways as required; keeps them free of weeds; maintains sprinkler systems; and assists in the repair and installation of sprinkler lines and heads.
• Operates loader, backhoe, and snowplow.
• Sweeps, washes, paints, and repairs or replaces park tables.
• Performs a variety of interior and exterior building maintenance tasks such as painting, plumbing, carpentry, mechanical, grounds work, and other unskilled and semi-skilled work as required.
• Plants lawns, trees, shrubs, and flowers.
• Operates, maintains, and repairs tractors, mowers, chainsaws, weed eaters, light trucks, jackhammers, welders, trucks, steam cleaners, buffers, washers, and other equipment as needed.
• Maintains current skills and knowledge in the proper and safe techniques of building and grounds maintenance functions.
• Collects and disposes of solid waste from buildings and grounds; picks up litter from premises.
• Opens and closes and locks and unlocks facilities as needed.
• Cleans snow from park parking lots, cemetery travel lanes, and all public facility sidewalks and entrances as needed.
• Assists in setting up and taking down equipment for various park and recreation programs; prepares facilities for park and recreation program use.
• Assists in the construction of new park facilities, including clearing, grading drainage, and foundation work.
• Operates a motor vehicle safely and legally.
• Maintains regular job attendance and adherence to working hours.
• Maintains complete and accurate records.
• Responds to after-hour unscheduled projects and emergencies.
• Basic knowledge and ability to operate computers and software programs for word processing, spreadsheets, and other applications as required.
• Ability to measure and compute using metric units and ability to convert between English and metric systems.
• Ability to perform heavy manual tasks for extended periods of time; works safely; communicate effectively verbally and in writing; establish and maintain effective