Parks Maintenance

City of Florence Employment Opportunity

Parks Maintenance Worker

$2,537—3,506 monthly

The City of Florence is accepting applications for a Parks Maintenance Worker to join our Public Works team!

Position Summary: Perform skilled and semi-skilled tasks in the maintenance, repair, and improvements to parks buildings, street trees, grounds, and equipment. Performs a variety of technical landscape construction duties, including plant flowers, shrubs, and trees, pruning, and repairing damaged trees, making and repairing tree wells, irrigating, mowing, and fertilizing turf, trimming and planting, fertilizing, and pruning shrubs. Participates in inspecting, maintaining, repairing and constructing developed and undeveloped parks, playgrounds, athletic, and other related facilities and properties.

Qualifications: Good working knowledge of building and grounds maintenance and repair techniques and equipment, horticulture, small engine maintenance and repair. An equivalent to a high school education or any satisfactory combination of experience and training which demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the above duties.

Desirable Qualifications: General knowledge of or courses in irrigation system design and maintenance, routine service of light and heavy vehicles and other power driven equipment, parks and landscaping.

To Apply: Please see the detailed job description and City employment application below. Applications can be mailed or hand delivered to Human Resources, City of Florence, 250 Hwy 101, Florence, OR 97439; or emailed to recruitment@ci.florence.or.us.

Position is open until filled with a first review of applications on October 16^th at 5 pm.

The City of Florence is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the City:

Our City staff and our community have embraced the City in Motion mantra. Check out our City of Florence: A City in Motion video on our website at www.ci.florence.or.us/citymanager/city-motion-video. The City Council and Management Team have outlined what it means to be a City in Motion and the exciting projects we have in store for our community. We are looking for someone who can join our City in Motion, embrace our mission and goals, and contribute to our vision of becoming Oregon’s Premier Coastal Community!