Salary: $17.82 – $25.47 Hourly
Location : Grand Prairie, TX
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2023-00274
Department: Parks, Arts & Recreation
Division: Parks Maintenance
Opening Date: 09/25/2023
Closing Date: 10/9/2023 5:00 PM Central
Job Summary
Join us in a hands-on role where you’ll use different equipment to keep our city’s parks, trails, fields, and green spaces looking great. Other duties include performing preventative maintenance on equipment; and interacting with other City employees and citizens. Make a real difference in our community’s outdoor spaces by applying today with The City of Grand Prairie!
Essential Job Functions
- Maintains grounds by using tractors, field mowers, and various small lawn equipment.
- Provide turf and horticultural maintenance in parks and other city facilities.
- Inspect parks and other city facilities to ensure safe conditions, report vandalism, and repair damages.
- Operate various type of equipment such as tractors, loaders, backhoes, forklifts, field mowers, paint sprayers, etc.
- Remove debris from park grounds, clean parking lots and sidewalks, and remove graffiti from parks and facilities.
- Assist with special event set-up and tear-down.
- Performs preventative maintenance by inspecting and performing required maintenance and repairs of all equipment used.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: High school diploma or GED.
- Experience: 1 year of related experience.
- Licenses: Valid Class C Texas Driver’s License required.
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide.
01
What is the highest level of Education obtained?
- Some high school, no diploma or GED
- High School Diploma/GED
- Some College, no degree
- Technical or Trade School (Did not complete)
- Technical or Trade School (Completed)
- Associate’s Degree
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Master’s Degree
- Doctorate Degree
02
Do you have a valid Texas Class C Driver’s License?
- Yes
- No
03
How many years of maintenance or related work experience do you have?
- No experience
- Less than 1 year
- 1 year under 2 years
- 2 years under 3 years
- 3 years under 4 years
- Over 4 years
04
How many years of operating equipment or related work experience do you have?
- No experience
- Less than 1 year
- 1 year under 2 years
- 2 years under 3 years
- 3 years under 4 years
- Over 4 years
Required Question