Step into the role of Senior Parks Maintenance Technician and become a leading contributor to the upkeep and enhancement of Durango’s parks. As a member of our Parks Division, you will keep our parks, trails, cemetery, urban forest, and open spaces in excellent condition, clean and safe for everyone to enjoy. Using equipment that ranges from power tools to heavy-duty machinery like backhoes, dump trucks, and farm tractors, you will maintain our city’s greenery, landscapes, irrigation systems, and parks facilities. This role provides the satisfaction of working outdoors and a variety in your daily tasks, allowing you to make a significant and visible impact on our community’s quality of life.What You’ll Do in This Role: 
Turf & Landscape Beds

• Test, diagnose, adjust, repair, and replace irrigation system components.
• Maintain landscaping areas by irrigating, excavating, removing weeds, raking leaves, fertilizing, cultivating, and trimming shrubs.
• Prepare and maintain annual flower beds, including planting flowers, weed removal, and irrigation.
• Maintain parks grounds through mowing, edge trimming, fertilizing, weed removal, land excavation, tree trimming, and building and maintaining fences.
• Apply chemical insecticides and herbicides.
• Install and maintain park and playground equipment and athletic fields.

General Park Maintenance

• Perform semi-skilled maintenance functions, including carpentry, plumbing, and painting.
• Maintain parks buildings and restrooms, including paper pick-up and facility cleaning.

Cemetery

• Dig and cover burial sites.
• Assist in site leveling, filling, and cemetery maintenance as necessary.

Equipment Operation & Maintenance

• Operate and maintain snow removal equipment to clear parking lots, walkways, and hard surface trails within the park system.
• Use power tools for trail maintenance and other projects, including wood saws, chainsaws, leaf blowers, and weed trimmers.
• Handle heavy equipment, such as backhoes, dump trucks, farm tractors, and Toolcats.
• Assist in the repair and maintenance of all departmental maintenance equipment.

You Have:

• A high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• A valid state Commercial Driver's License (CDL) or the ability to obtain one.
• Two to three years of experience in building and grounds maintenance or equivalent education, training, and experience.
• A thorough understanding of the practices, methods, and materials used in grounds maintenance, including proficiency in operating irrigation systems.
• Proficiency in operating and maintaining a wide range of tools and equipment, from light to heavy-duty machinery, along with a comprehensive knowledge of traffic laws, ordinances, and regulations pertaining to heavy equipment operation.
• The ability to read, comprehend, and apply information from documents such as safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions, maps, blueprint sketches, technical and procedural manuals.
• Ability to obtain Commercial Driver's License within six months of hire. 

What We Can Offer You:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Ample personal time off (PTO) and 11 paid holidays 
• 401(a) retirement plan and optional deferred compensation plan 
• Basic life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage 
• Long-term disability coverage
• Paid FMLA
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Free access to the Durango Community Recreation Center and Chapman Hill Ice Rink & Ski Area
• Holistic Employee Wellness Program, addressing physical, mental, financial, and professional well-being
• Free transit pass and family member discounts 
• Reimbursement for job-related classes to foster continuous learning 
• Sixteen hours of volunteer time off per year to support local non-profit organizations

 
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