Senior Parks Maintenance Technician

Senior Parks Maintenance Technician

Step into the role of Senior Parks Maintenance Technician and help keep Durango's parks beautiful and well-maintained. As a member of our Parks Division, you will help keep our parks, trails, cemetery, urban forest, and open spaces in excellent, clean, and safe condition for everyone to enjoy. You'll work with a variety of equipmentfrom power tools to heavy machinery like backhoes, dump trucks, and farm tractorsto maintain our city's greenery, landscapes, irrigation systems, and parks facilities. This outdoor role offers diverse daily tasks and the satisfaction of making a visible, positive impact on our community's quality of life. City of Durango's Trail to Excellence The City of Durango is a purpose-driven organization with more than 400 full-time and 300 part-time and seasonal employees across 15 departments, all working together to provide a wide range of services that keep our community running every day. From public safety and utilities to parks and recreation, our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality services that enhance the lives of all who live, work, and visit here. At the city, we focus on continually improving how we work and serve the community. This effort is called the Trail to Excellence (T2E), and every employee plays a part in it. Whether you work outdoors, in an office, or lead a team, your daily efforts connect to the city's mission of providing excellent service and reaching the city's vision of being a multigenerational community that is authentic, diverse, engaged, thriving, and environmentally responsible. The full details of this vision are outlined in the city's strategic plan. As a member of our team, your work will be meaningful because:

• Your ideas help shape citywide improvements.
• The work you do ties directly into measurable goals.
• You'll be part of a system that values collaboration, innovation, and results.

We're looking for team members who share our core values of teamwork, dependability, professionalism, service, respect, innovation, and wellbeing and who are excited to make a difference in the community we serve.

Essential Job Duties

What You'll Do in This Role:

Turf & Landscape Beds

• Test, diagnose, adjust, repair, and replace irrigation system components.
• Maintain landscaping areas by irrigating, excavating, removing weeds, raking leaves, fertilizing, cultivating, and trimming shrubs.
• Prepare and maintain annual flower beds, including planting flowers, weed removal, and irrigation.
• Maintain parks grounds through mowing, edge trimming, fertilizing, weed removal, land excavation, tree trimming, and building and maintaining fences.
• Apply chemical insecticides and herbicides.
• Install and maintain park and playground equipment and athletic fields.

General Park Maintenance

• Perform semi-skilled maintenance functions, including carpentry, plumbing, and painting.
• Maintain parks buildings and restrooms, including paper pick-up and facility cleaning.

Cemetery

• Assist in site leveling, filling, and cemetery maintenance as necessary.
• Dig and cover burial sites.

Equipment Operation & Maintenance

• Operate and maintain snow removal equipment to clear parking lots, walkways, and hard surface trails within the park system.
• Use power tools for trail maintenance and other projects, including wood saws, chainsaws, leaf blowers, and weed trimmers.
• Handle heavy equipment, such as backhoes, dump trucks, farm tractors, and Toolcats.
• Assist in the repair and maintenance of all departmental maintenance equipment.

Minimum Qualifications

You Have:

• A high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• A valid state Commercial Driver's License (CDL) or the ability to obtain one.
• Two to three years of experience in building and grounds maintenance or equivalent education, training, and experience.

You Will Succeed in This Role If You:

• Have experience maintaining parks, landscapes, or other outdoor spaces and understand safe, effective grounds maintenance practices.
• Can operate, monitor, and perform basic maintenance on irrigation systems.
• Can safely operate and maintain a variety of tools, equipment, and heavy machinery while following traffic laws and safety procedures.
• Are comfortable reading and following maps, blueprints, equipment manuals, work instructions, and safety guidelines to complete your work accurately.

Supplemental Information

What We Can Offer You:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Ample personal time off (PTO) and 11 paid holidays.
• 401(a) retirement plan and optional deferred compensation plan.
• Basic life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Paid Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Free access to the Durango Community Recreation Center and Chapman Hill Ice Rink & Ski Area.
• Holistic Employee Wellness Program, addressing physical, mental, financial, and professional well-being.
• Free transit pass and family member discounts.
• Reimbursement for job-related classes to foster continuous learning.
• Sixteen hours of volunteer time off per year to support local non-profit organizations.

Belong at the City of Durango:

We believe in creating an inclusive workforce that welcomes diversity of thoughts, viewpoints, and experiences.

The City of Durango is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

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