Park Maintenance Person

Job Description:

Park Maintenance Person

Description

Description

Join the City of Palo Alto Parks Maintenance team and help us keep our community green and beautiful!

Park Services maintains 162 acres of urban parklands, including Rinconada, Mitchell, and Greer Parks. We also care for libraries, community centers, business districts, and utility sub-stations. Our maintenance programs cover landscape plant materials, irrigation systems, turf, school athletic fields, tennis courts, sports fields, playgrounds, picnic facilities, dog runs, basketball courts, and a lawn bowling green.

Under general supervision, the Park Maintenance Person performs skilled gardening tasks, recommends landscape designs, selects and maintains plants, and performs minor repairs on park furniture and fencing. They may also operate mowing equipment and work independently on special landscaping projects.

Schedule: 6:15 a.m. - 3:45 p.m., Monday - Friday (9/80 work schedule, every other Friday off)

Benefits: Fantastic benefits package, to learn more click HERE.

Compensation (SEIU): Comprehensive compensation plan, to learn more click HERE.

This position is represented by Service Employee International Union position (SEIU)

Essential Duties

Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Recommends location and type of plants, shrubs, trees and flowers for particular landscape effect.
• Maintains the above plant material with professional skill necessary to artistically meet the demands of the landscape and buildings.
• Performs routine maintenance operations such as mowing, fertilizing, cultivating, grading, etc., necessary to maintain established landscape effect; maintains indoor plants.
• Performs minor repairs with hand tools of park furniture and fencing such as patching fences, smoothing rough metals, applying preventative wood treatments, reinforcing furniture seats and legs.
• Confers with supervisor to plan and review work projects; may direct and coordinate activities of a small ground maintenance crew.
• Operates a variety of mowing equipment and provides services necessary to keep mowing equipment operative.

Related Functions:

• Requisitions equipment and required materials; assists crew workers in completion of maintenance and gardening projects.
• Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

For full job description, please click HERE.

Minimum Qualifications

Sufficient education, training and/or work experience to demonstrate possession of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities which would typically be acquired through:

• Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade.

and

• Two years' experience in general park maintenance work or related landscape maintenance experience.

Special Requirements:

• Valid California Driver's License

Supplemental Information

The Selection Process:

• Applicants will receive email recruitment status notifications. Governmentjobs.com account also has notification status updates.
• Depending on the number of qualified applications received, the examination process may consist of supplemental questions, online assessment, written examination, practical performance, oral examination, or any combination to determine which candidate will move forward in the hiring process.

Our online application system is provided by NeoGov. If you have problems while applying online, please contact NeoGov's Live Applicant Support at (855) 524-5627 between 6:00 AM and 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday - Friday.

Eligibility List: An eligibility list may be created from this announcement and will remain valid for up to one year from the posting date. This list can be utilized to fill any citywide vacant position within the Park Maintenance Person classification series. The Human Resources Department will oversee the list, and the Human Resources Director has the authority to either terminate or extend it as needed.

The City of Palo Alto is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

For more details visit our Careers Page, by clicking HERE.
Learn more about our Memorandum of Agreements (MOAs) between the City and its bargaining units, by clicking HERE.

Closing Date/Time: 3/9/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

Salary:

$75,566.40 - $92,768.00 Annually