Description: Join the City of Palo Alto Parks Maintenance team and help us keep our community green and beautiful! Park Services maintains 162 acres of urban parklands, including Rinconada, Mitchell, and Greer Parks. We also care for libraries, community centers, business districts, and utility sub-stations. Our maintenance programs cover landscape plant materials, irrigation systems, turf, school athletic fields, tennis courts, sports fields, playgrounds, picnic facilities, dog runs, basketball courts, and a lawn bowling green.
Under general supervision, the Park Maintenance Person performs skilled gardening tasks, recommends landscape designs, selects and maintains plants, and performs minor repairs on park furniture and fencing. They may also operate mowing equipment and work independently on special landscaping projects.
Schedule: 6:15 a.m. - 3:45 p.m., Monday - Friday (9/80 work schedule, every other Friday off)
Benefits: Fantastic benefits package, to learn more click
HERE. Compensation (SEIU): Comprehensive compensation plan, to learn more click
HERE. This position is represented by Service Employee International Union position (SEIU) Essential Duties:Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:- Recommends location and type of plants, shrubs, trees and flowers for particular landscape effect.
- Maintains the above plant material with professional skill necessary to artistically meet the demands of the landscape and buildings.
- Performs routine maintenance operations such as mowing, fertilizing, cultivating, grading, etc., necessary to maintain established landscape effect; maintains indoor plants.
- Performs minor repairs with hand tools of park furniture and fencing such as patching fences, smoothing rough metals, applying preventative wood treatments, reinforcing furniture seats and legs.
- Confers with supervisor to plan and review work projects; may direct and coordinate activities of a small ground maintenance crew.
- Operates a variety of mowing equipment and provides services necessary to keep mowing equipment operative.
Related Functions:- Requisitions equipment and required materials; assists crew workers in completion of maintenance and gardening projects.
- Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.
For full job description, please click HERE. Minimum Qualifications:Sufficient education, training and/or work experience to demonstrate possession of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities which would typically be acquired through:- Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade.
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- Two years' experience in general park maintenance work or related landscape maintenance experience.
Special Requirements:- Valid California Driver's License
Supplemental Information:The Selection Process:
- Applicants will receive email recruitment status notifications. Governmentjobs.com account also has notification status updates.
- Depending on the number of qualified applications received, the examination process may consist of supplemental questions, online assessment, written examination, practical performance, oral examination, or any combination to determine which candidate will move forward in the hiring process.
Our online application system is provided by NeoGov. If you have problems while applying online, please contact NeoGov's Live Applicant Support at (855) 524-5627 between 6:00 AM and 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday - Friday.
The City of Palo Alto is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.
The City of Palo Alto offers its employees a generous benefit package, featuring family medical coverage, retirement, life insurance, plus 12 paid holidays per year. - Participation in a Governmental 457 Deferred Compensation Plan
- Fully paid employee and dependent Dental Plan
- Fully paid employee and dependent Vision Plan
- Fully paid Life and AD&D insurance equal to annual salary
- Flat Rate City paid medical contribution which may allow employees to select a fully paid health plan
- Fully paid Life Insurance equal to one-times annual salary
- Voluntary Supplemental Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability plan
- 12 annual paid holidays
- Two to five weeks vacation annually depending on years of service per MOA
- 96 hours annual sick leave
- Direct Deposit
- Flexible Spending Account for Healthcare and Childcare expenses
Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS)
- 2% at60 formula for Classic Employees
- One-year final compensation for 2% at 60 employees
- 2% at 62 formula for New CalPers Members
- Three-year final compensation for 2% at 62 employees only
- Retiree Medical benefits for employee and dependents after 10 years of service
Please note: The City does not participate in CA State Disability Insurance (SDI) or Social Security.Since they City does not participate in SDI, City employees are not eligible to claim against the State's Pregnancy Disability Leave or Paid Family Leave programs.
Closing Date/Time: 8/11/2024 11:59 PM Pacific
