GET PAID TO MAINTAIN BEAUTIFUL SPACES!

The City of Spokane Parks and Recreation Department is hiring temp seasonal

Park Grounds and Garden Workers

Summary:

The Park Grounds & Garden Worker is responsible for general care, maintenance, and cleanliness of greenspaces and hardscapes in park areas, gardens, and facilities at Manito Park, Moore-Turner Heritage Garden, and Finch Arboretum. Work is conducted in teams or individually and assignments may be routine in nature or vary depending on your team assignment and seasonal needs. Responsibilities and pay vary depending on experience, $16.28 to $22.00 per hour base wage. Premium pay offered for evening and weekend shift workers.

The Park Grounds & Garden Worker has the option of working at Manito Park, Moore-Turner Heritage Garden, or Finch Arboretum. Routine work may include watering, weeding, and planting garden beds; mowing and edging turfgrass; cleaning restrooms and picnic areas; removing litter and trash; operating small power and hand tools.

Supervision:

Employee works under general supervision using standard procedures. Work is routine and repetitive in nature, and once learned, is expected to be performed with less supervision. Follows established procedures and refers unusual or unfamiliar situations to the supervisor.

The following Responsibilities and Requirements are functions the individual who holds or desires the position must be able to perform unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation.  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  

• General landscape maintenance: tending, watering, mulching, and planting annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees; preparation of garden beds; weeding; edging; mowing; irrigation. 
• Assists in greenhouse and nursery operations. 
• Maintains and cleans restrooms, picnic facilities, and meeting rooms. 
• Operates small, motorized, hand-held landscaping equipment, including line-trimmer, power edger, and blower.
• Ability to see, with or without corrective lenses, well enough to read fine print such as instructions in standard text.
• Ability to hear, with or without a hearing aid.
• Enough body mobility to walk and stoop to perform landscaping duties.
• Perform tasks requiring moderate levels of physical labor, outdoors, potentially under unfavorable weather conditions.

ESTIMATED DAYS AND HOURS:

• The season typically runs April through October. 
• Hours and days of work vary, part-time and full-time schedules available.
• Some work locations and assignments may require weekends and holidays. 

REQUIREMENTS OF WORK: 

• Must possess a current driver’s license without restrictions.
• Requires frequent interaction with the public.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs depending on job assignment.

BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS:

Respectful, courteous, and friendly to customers, citizens, other City employees, and City leadership. Effectively communicates with customers, citizens, other City employees, peers, and managers. Positively represents the City, maintaining the trust City residents have placed in each of us. Values integrity; demonstrates honest and ethical behaviors. Values diversity; demonstrates equitable and inclusive behaviors. Values public service; demonstrates a growth mindset, collaborative approach, consistency, and teamwork.