Seasonal Maintenance Worker

Seasonal Maintenance Worker**Make an impact:** Join a dedicated team to help keep Salem clean and beautiful. This position involves maintaining nearly 500 Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) facilities and hundreds of acres of natural areas that capture stormwater runoff and improve the flows into our streams. **Learn and grow:** This position offers the chance to dive into the world of stormwater regulations and systems. Gain valuable skills while learning how to properly maintain GSI facilities and natural areas. **What you will do:** As part of a team, responsibilities include:* Routine Maintenance: Perform weeding, trash removal, planting, and minor irrigation system repairs to keep facilities in shape.* Using Tools and Equipment: Use hand tools like shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, and operate larger equipment such as mowers, edgers and power hand tools.* Teamwork: Work closely with the Green Stormwater Infrastructure section’s career maintenance operators, Natural Infrastructure Specialist, contracted landscapers, and Marion County Adults in Custody (AIC) work crews. Collaborate on tasks to make sure GSI facilities are well-maintained.* Plant Care: Provide care for plants in stormwater facilities by watering, pruning, and removing dead vegetation. Identify commonly planted species. Identifies invasive and noxious weeks; removes invasive and noxious weeks and applies integrated pest management practices to prevent spread of weeks through planning and proper disposal.* Repair and Rehabilitation: Assist in the repairing, rehabilitating, and rebuilding of stormwater quality facilities.* Landscape Maintenance: Perform other landscaping maintenance functions as assigned to ensure stormwater facilities operate as designed. This includes replacing or replenishing soil, leveling treatment areas, mitigating erosion and channelization issues, repairing minor concrete issues, clearing blockages, and loosening compacted soil.* Record Keeping: Maintain detailed records of work using the City’s asset management system and tools like iPads, cell phones, and laptops.* Customer Service: Offer friendly assistance to anyone with questions about maintenance work or stormwater facilities. **Additional information on job responsibilities:*** Maintains regular attendance.* Operates a motor vehicle safely and legally. **What can we offer you for all your hard work?*** Paid vacation and sick time in accordance with City policies.* Competitive pay.* Employee wellness programs.* Position schedule is Mon-Fri 7:00am - 3:30pm* The City of Salem offers a comprehensive and equitable base salary within the listed range based on your experience, skills, and education. We encourage you to clearly describe how you meet the minimum qualifications and essential attributes in your application materials. Learn more about Equal Pay**What are the minimum qualifications?*** Must pass the pre-employment background check.* Must have an Oregon Driver’s license and meet the City of Salem’s driving standards.* General maintenance, restoration, repair, grounds keeping, construction trade or other manual labor experience.* Hiring managers do not have access to view resumes as part of the application review process, please make sure to give detailed information in your application that includes your experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as requested in the supplemental questions and job advertisement. **What you will bring along:*** Knowledge on how to use common landscape tools safely and effectively.* The ability to operate large trucks and pull trailers.* Understanding of occupational hazards in the workplace and the precautions necessary to stay safe.* Respect towards others, along with an enthusiasm to understand and value individual differences to help create a diverse and inclusive workplace.* Positive attitude and skills in providing great customer service.* Commitment to safe work practices.* Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with coworkers, employees, officials, and the public. **Where can I find out more about the position?**Go to the menu option for Class Specifications and search for Maintenance Worker or view by clicking here. This announcement is not an implied contract and may be modified or revoked without notice.**Work Shift:****Benefits Information:***Hiring managers do not have access to view resumes as part of the application review process, so please make sure to give detailed information in your application that includes your experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as requested in the supplemental questions and job application.****In some cases, if we are unable to hire a qualified candidate for this classification, we may also consider candidates for related classifications.******If applicable for this posting, other job classifications that may be considered are listed below:***Maintenance Worker***As applicable for this posting, the pay range(s) below include the combined hourly and/or salary ranges for all classifications listed above. The exact pay range will depend on the specific classification for which you are hired.*****This position's estimated compensation is:**$0.00 - $0.00/## Job Type: ## Department:Kevin Pack) ## Location:## Opening Date:2026-10-12**About us:**Salem is the second largest city in Oregon and the capital city. Centrally located in the Willamette Valley, Salem is 49 square miles in size and extends across to counties, Marion and Polk. The community has well-established neighborhoods and carefully preserved historic buildings with wide diversity and a family-friendly ambiance. The city is home to nearly 180,000 residents. For a full community profile detailing demographics and housing statistics, visit the City of Salem website.The City of Salem organization has eight primary departments: Community Services, Finance, Fire, Enterprise Services, Legal, Police, Public Works, and Community Planning and Development. Several departments also have functional divisions within their department. The City of Salem employs roughly 1,350 talented and dedicated staff members and works collaboratively with five labor unions.The Salem Police Department is the fourth largest agency in Oregon. We are a full-service department with myriad special teams and career advancement opportunities. In November 2020, the department moved into a modern 104,000-square-foot facility with many amenities for employees, featuring purposeful efficiency design for operations and amenities that promote employee wellness.The Public Works Department values employees and their professional development. If you are someone that takes pride in collaborating on innovative ideas, proactively responding to community needs, and being a good environmental and financial steward, we look forward to meeting you! The Public Works Department promotes a healthy work life balance, while maintaining the utmost dedication to the health, safety, and welfare of our community, including our team!The Urban Renewal Agency and the Salem Housing Authority are separate municipal corporations. The Agency contracts with the City for services and the Authority is led by the Housing Administrator within the Urban Development department.**How can I apply?**The City of Salem invites individuals of all diverse communities and backgrounds to apply for our available job opportunities as we strive to provide the best service to everyone. The City of Salem is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all and has a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that by welcoming differences, encouraging new ideas and views, listening to, and learning from each other, we are better able to serve the community. Select the “Apply” button to complete your application. Make sure that you specify how you meet the qualifications outlined in the class specification and complete the application. Applicants that meet the minimum qualifications as outlined above but not selected for this position may be placed on an eligibility list, and candidates may be hired from the list. Eligibility lists are valid for six months. The City will send email notifications to eligible candidates about potential hiring opportunities so please ensure your email settings accept our system generated email notifications. You may subscribe for automatic notification of job openings at the City by setting up Job Alerts, you will receive an email confirming you want to Opt-In to Job Alert communications from the City of Salem.For more information about employment at the City of Salem, please visit our Career Site.THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT AN IMPLIED CONTRACT AND MAY BE MODIFIED OR REVOKED WITHOUT NOTICE #J-18808-Ljbffr