Maintenance Worker- Parks

Summary Statement

Help keep Boise’s parks and public spaces safe, clean, and beautiful. In this hands-on role, you’ll perform maintenance and repairs across parks, grounds, and infrastructure while operating a variety of tools and equipment. Your work directly supports the spaces where the community gathers, plays, and connects.

Essential Functions

• Performs general maintenance of the native landscape around utility corridors and pathways including undeveloped paths, brush clearing, weed removal, tree pruning, chemical application, and ditch structures. Performs general maintenance and repairs on buildings and facilities. Utilizes a variety of tools including drills, saws, nail guns, sanders, trowels, ladders, etc. Operates a ATV or UTV.
• Performs general custodial maintenance and repair to hard surfaces and amenities including light poles, fixtures, trash cans, benches, bike racks, water features and fountains. Utilizes sewer snakes to clear plugged drains and pipes.
• Utilizes asphalt and concrete saws, vibrating packers, cement mixers, and related tools to repair damaged asphalt, concrete, and similar hard surfaces. Ensures proper symbols and lines are painted on paved surfaces. Utilizes small to medium equipment such as backhoes, one-ton dump-truck, and small tractors. Performs seasonal duties such as snow removal and winterizing bathroom facilities. Relocates large rocks, removes old concrete, and transports dirt.
• Cleans and maintains storm drains. Assists in construction and installation of gabion baskets in ponds and river banks. Ensures river banks, ditches, and various waterways are properly maintained, and free of litter and debris.
• Performs other duties as assigned. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time.

Requirements

Required Knowledge, Experience, And Training

• High school diploma or equivalent and two years of experience performing maintenance services including general construction, native landscape maintenance and custodial duties.

• General facilities maintenance including custodial, native landscape, plumbing and construction methods and safety standards.
• Hard surface patching and repair.
• Fixture installation.
• Hand and power tools.

• Perform varied facilities maintenance and cleaning.
• Safely operate a wide variety of equipment and tools.
• Safely utilize related protective gear and safety equipment.
• Identify and prioritize additional tasks.
• Communicate effectively in the English language at a level necessary for efficient job performance.
• Perform all essential functions as assigned by an authorized employee, supervisor and/or manager with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Individuals must be capable of operating vehicles safely and have an acceptable driving record.

• Four years of experience in general facilities maintenance performing duties such as custodial, native landscaping and minor construction.

• Valid state-issued driver’s license.

• City of Boise background check processes which includes a criminal history check and reference checks in accordance with the City of Boise Hiring Process Regulation.
• Driving Record Check.

Working Conditions

The physical effort characteristics and working environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Efforts
While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently lifting/carrying up to 35 pounds, occasionally lifting/carrying up to 50 pounds and rarely lifting/carrying up to 100 pounds. Also, the employee is occasionally pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds and rarely pushing/pulling up to 100 pounds. The noise level is occasionally moderate and rarely loud. Work includes sensory ability to talk, hear, smell and touch. Work in this position also includes close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. Employees will sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, grasp, climb and balance. Position requires hand/finger dexterity.

Working Environment

• The work environment will include inside conditions, outdoor weather conditions, extreme temperatures, in wet and humid conditions, areas of dust, odors, mist and gases or other airborne matter. Employees are exposed to mechanical and electrical hazards, work in/at heights and confined spaces. Employees will also drive a vehicle as part of this position. Work includes protected exposure to bodily fluids.
• This position works: evenings and weekends as required.