Laborer - Community Recreation

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Job Description

In order to qualify for this position, resumes must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the position. Applicant resumes are the key means for evaluating skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position therefore, applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing experience.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Loads and unloads materials from ground, pallets, skids, platforms, trucks, lifting devices, and transport vehicles, manually or electronically with a lift gate, wheelbarrow, pallet jack or dolly.
• Operates a variety of power equipment to include but not limited to mowers, clippers, posthole diggers, blowers, weed eaters, power washers, and banding equipment.
• Uses hand tools such as shovels, rakes, hammers, bars, saws, axes, loppers, wrenches, brushes, and brooms to maintain and clean facilities and grounds.
• Moves and organizes equipment, supplies, furniture and materials by hand or by mechanical means.
• Uses shovels, rakes, and rock bar to excavate, backfill or spread sand, dirt or fill materials to improve recreation spaces such as playgrounds, park spaces, volleyball courts, horseshoe pits, etc.
• Ensures ground and facilities are maintained and clean (e.g. cleans parks tables, collects/empties trash cans, barbecues, pavilion's, docks, and rental equipment to ensure they are in serviceable condition).
• Clears small trees, limbs, tree debris, and brushes using handsaw, clippers or loppers.
• Shovels, sweeps or rakes snow, sand or dirt from sidewalks, playgrounds, volleyball courts, beach and recreational parking lots.
• Cleans and waxes vehicles.
• Maintain and inventory of hand and power tools, large equipment and inflatable bounce equipment and ensures they are in good working order.
• Makes all adjustments to equipment to ensure proper settings, connections, and mechanical soundness.
• Makes minor repairs, paints and may perform carpentry work.
• Assists the mechanic with maintaining and cleaning rental equipment.
• Delivers, sets up, inspects and tears down inflatable bounce equipment.
• Assists in preparing excess property for disposal.
• Determines and selects the most appropriate type of equipment to accomplish each phase of the work in the most productive and cost-effective manner.
• Assist in issuing and receiving rental equipment form customers, assists customers in hooking up trailers, loading and unloading of equipment into personal vehicles.
• Observes required safety, sanitation, environmental, hazardous waste disposal and housekeeping rules and regulations.