JOB
NATURE OF WORK: Maintain all department facilities, including sports fields, parks, indoor facilities and numerous turf and planted areas. Work is performed both indoors and outdoors, sometimes in adverse weather conditions including rain, snow, heat and cold. Employee must be able to talk, hear and reach with hands and arms and is frequently required to stand, walk and use hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls; employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds is required occasionally. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and vibration. Noise level is usually moderate to loud. Equipment used includes: motorized and hand operated equipment and tools to wash, scrub, weed and buff - including floor machine, hose, grubbers, sprinklers, irrigation systems, painting and maintenance & construction equipment. Telephones and mobile radios are also used.