Parks Maintenance Technician

Parks Maintenance Technician

The City of Oxnard's Public Works Department, Parks Division, is seeking a Parks Maintenance Technician to join the team. This position will be responsible for maintenance and repair of the grounds, vegetation, and infrastructure along the parkways, medians, and rights-of-way throughout the City, as well as supporting the maintenance and cleanliness of municipal parks and facilities.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Maintain plantings, grounds, and infrastructure in municipal parks, street landscapes, recreation areas, and facility grounds.
• Inspect parks, recreation areas, and assigned facilities to identify maintenance, cleanliness, safety, vandalism, and repair needs. Document findings and report or initiate corrective work as appropriate.
• Utilize the City's Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to receive, update, and close work orders, and complete assigned inspections and checklists.
• Clean and maintain public restrooms, including toilets, urinals, sinks, floors, fixtures, and related facilities. Perform routine custodial duties to maintain safe, clean, and sanitary public spaces.
• Collect and remove trash, litter, and debris from parks and rights-of-way.
• Water, mow, weed, trim, edge, renovate, aerate, and fertilize lawns; weed, prune, mulch, feed, fertilize, and irrigate shrubs, trees, and flower beds; mix and apply fertilizer and may apply pesticides and herbicides; install and maintain irrigation equipment and sprinklers; clean, maintain, and pick up rubbish and debris from landscaped areas, paved areas, paths and walks, median traffic islands, fields, courts and other facilities;
• Assist in installation, moving and repair of playground and related recreational equipment; maintain and prepare athletic fields; grade, fill and shape baseball diamonds; oversee and participate in the removal of graffiti; perform rodent abatement activities.
• Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles, equipment, tools and related safety equipment; drive vehicles required to transport materials, tools and equipment; operate commercial motorized equipment such as gang mowers and edgers, tractors, front-end loaders, sprayers, graffiti removal apparatus and other related equipment;
• Operate a variety of hand and power tools such as hand mowers, edgers, blowers, hedge trimmers, weed eaters, chain saws, rakes, shovels, hoes, brooms, and other maintenance tools.
• Implement traffic control measures at job sites, including sign placement, traffic control arrow board, and coning.
• Maintain records of work performed; enter data properly.
• Perform duties in a professional and safe manner. Follow all safety and personnel rules, policies, and processes. Assist and train less experienced personnel; understand, implement, and train personnel in proper safety procedures.
• Respond to questions and concerns from the general public; provide information as is appropriate and resolve complaints.
• Demonstrate a full understanding of applicable policies, procedures, work methods and safety requirements associated with assigned duties.