Maintenance Coordinator - Parks & Natural Resources

This role supports custodial services, building maintenance, groundskeeping, and athletic field upkeep while guiding a team responsible for skilled, technical, and routine maintenance work. The position involves planning daily operations, organizing work assignments for a moderately sized team, and applying sound judgment to determine effective work methods, priorities, and schedules to keep facilities and grounds operating at their best.Education and Experience:
An equivalent combination of relevant training, education and experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent with some vocational or technical training in one or more building trades.
• Two (2) years of experience in moderately large-scale custodial, park and building maintenance.

Licenses and/or Certificates:

• Must maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Must obtain and maintain the following certifications and licensures:
• Positions assigned to Parks:
  • Within eighteen (18) months of position assignment:
  •  Playground Safety Inspector from National Recreation and Park Association
• Within one (1) year of position assignment:
  • Aerial Lift certification

• Knowledge of departmental policies, plans, and procedures.
• Knowledge of modern office practices, plans, and procedures.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other job-related computer programs and software applications.
• Knowledge of standard equipment, hand tools, materials, chemicals, methods, and practices of assigned trade areas. 
• Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions. 
• Knowledge of fire codes, ADA requirements, and safety practices for public parks and complexes. 
• Analytical and research skills.
• Skill in effective communication, both orally and in writing.
• Skill in prioritizing and organizing work.
• Skill in the use of office equipment such as a computer, multi-line telephone system, scanner, fax machine, and copier.
• Ability to ascertain priorities and meet deadlines and objectives. 
• Ability to maintain accurate records and reports. 
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle. 
• Ability to operate aerial lift equipment.
• Ability to provide internal/external guidance and customer assistance via all forms of communication. 
• Ability to diagnose and correct problems and safety issues and establish a preventative maintenance program. 
• Ability to do minor electric, plumbing, and carpentry repairs. 
• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion in applying and interpreting department rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. 
• Ability to make recommendations and to use resourcefulness and tact in solving new problems. 
• Ability to act as lead worker with a team of subordinates and/or peers. 
• Ability to prepare effective correspondence on routine matters and to perform routine administrative functions without referral to supervisor. 
• Ability to use computers for data entry, word processing, and/or accounting purposes.
• Ability to author reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. 
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with managers, service providers, other employees, and the general public.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Stooping, crouching, walking, pulling, lifting, grasping, hearing, seeing up close, seeing far away, kneeling, reaching, pushing, talking, standing, finger movement, repetitive motions, depth perception.  Frequent lifting of 10 to 25 pounds; occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work requires some exposure to environmental changes (e.g., outdoor weather and/or field conditions, warehouses, covered loading docks, garages, etc.) or irate customers, extreme noise, odors, heights and/or dust.

RISK/SAFETY CONDITIONS
This position requires some exposure or risk to physical health and/or physical safety (e.g., exposure to environmentally hazardous material, assault and battery, heavy equipment, communicable disease, etc.).

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily.   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described.  Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.