Facilities Maintenance Worker
Facilities Maintenance Worker, Horticulture
Deadline: Thursday, December 30, 2021
Location: Park & Recreation - Parks, Kearney, NE 68845
Department: Park & Recreation
Job Status: Full-Time
Days: Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.
Rate of Pay: $19.34 - $27.23
Status: Accepting Applications
Job Description Summary
Performs a variety of skilled and semi-skilled tasks in the cultivation, maintenance, and construction of The Gardens at Yanney Park. Work varies, requiring interpretative judgment within prescribed standards and procedures.
Job Responsibilities
Perform manual labor in the landscape installation, maintenance, restoration, and minor construction projects. Supervise and assist in training seasonal staff and volunteers. Maintain material and equipment inventory. Responsible for the greenhouse growing and maintenance needed to propagate, cultivate, and harvest horticultural specialties, such as annuals, perennials, shrubs, etc. Assist in developing, maintaining, and cultivating park plantings through appropriate horticultural maintenance (watering, weeding, fertilizing, pruning, etc.). Identify and treat potential pests and diseases with integrated pest management and applications of herbicides and pesticides if necessary. Assist and coordinate volunteer work with Horticulturalist for educational and volunteer events. Coordinate work with recreational staff and facility user groups to prepare parks prior to and during special events. Maintain effective working relations with park and facility users. Provide park users with plant identification/ information as requested. Assist in the promotion of the education and volunteer programming. Maintain landscape, related hardscape, and facilities with minor maintenance and renovation. Operate various types of trucks and light equipment. Service equipment used in the maintenance of park grounds. Assist irrigation specialist with irrigation installation, repair, maintenance, plumbing, and related tasks. Perform overtime as required and other duties as assigned
Minimum Education & Requirements
Requires a high school diploma/GED and experience in ground maintenance, nursery, or landscape work. Bachelor’s or Associates degree in horticulture or related field preferred. Experience with Microsoft Office is desired. Must possess a valid Nebraska driver’s license and the ability to obtain an EPA pesticide applicator’s license within 12 months of hire.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Mental Requirements -
- Ability to read and comprehend written material.
- Ability to listen and apply information and instructions.
- Ability to understand mathematical concepts to include basic arithmetic.
- Ability to organize information for concise written records.
Physical Requirements
- Work Type: Heavy, exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up-to 50 pounds frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects
- Climbing/Balancing: Climbs inclines and ladders, uneven surfaces, balance required
- Walking: Extensive amount required
- Stooping/Bending: Frequently
- Stand/Sit: Sit about 20 percent of the time
- Reaching: Frequent, overhead as well as horizontal
- Vision: Adequate to perform essential functions
- Color Vision: Adequate to perform essential functions
- Hearing: Frequently perceive nature of sounds by ear
- Speech: Moderate need to express ideas by means of spoken word
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently operates vehicles, equipment, and tools requiring moderate ability
- Manual Dexterity: Frequently operates equipment and tools requiring manual ability
Disclaimer
The City of Kearney is a drug and alcohol free workplace and an EOE.