Seasonal Park Groundskeeper(s) - Morton County

Company Overview

Morton County is a committed public service employer devoted to our Team and the steadfast citizens who make up this great community.  What makes this organization remarkable are the ideals we instill in the service provided to the public.  As an organization, we believe in providing comprehensive, cost-effective, and efficient services to our community, our constituents, and our Team while providing these services in a collaborative, considerate, ethical and fiscally responsible manner.

Our ability to provide exceptional customer service is directly attributable to the quality of our Team and the culture we cultivate.  We work to build a culture that is responsive to our team by listening to the needs of our Team Members and their families.  From there, we work diligently to provide a comprehensive and affordable benefits program.

We ask that you consider Morton County as your next employer.  

Job Summary

This position will work in coordination with the Morton County Park Director in performing a variety of structural and grounds maintenance/repair work for County parks and facilities.  Incumbent performs routine manual work in connection with the general and specific upkeep and maintenance of campground facilities and park grounds. Primarily responsible for ensuring cleanliness of grounds; maintaining county parks, grounds surrounding county facilities, recreational facilities, scenic drives, and other grounds surrounding county parks buildings. Maintenance duties include mowing, landscaping, irrigation, and general maintenance.  

Responsibilities and Duties

• Performs custodial work as required and assigned, including changing light bulbs, dump garbage and reline cans with liners, clean and sanitize restrooms and replenish supplies, clean spills, clean fixtures, light fixtures;
• Maintains turf, parks, trails, and landscape maintenance by mowing, edging, and fertilizing, and pruning trees and shrubs;
• Adhere to all County policies and procedures, risk management and safety programs and procedures
• Inspects all grounds, lawns, landscapes and reports any safety issues, defects, malfunctions, vandalism, or defacement on a daily basis. 
• Perform humane rodent trapping as needed, with approval from Park Foreman
• Performing building maintenance including cleaning, painting, and exterior clean up.
• Inspects, cleans, and repairs tools and equipment related to assignment
• Maintain awareness of activities or situations that require the immediate attention of County staff;
• Ability to plan and organize daily work routine;
• Uses hand and power equipment to plant, irrigate, fertilize and maintain lawns, plants, shrubs, and trees. Power equipment includes but not limited to push and self-propelled mowers, dump trucks, water trucks, front-end loaders, backhoes, aerial platforms, hole augers, truck-trailer units, and chain saws.
• Operates a variety of vehicles, equipment, and machinery such as weed eater, blower, mower, edger, truck, trailer, etc.
• Performs routine maintenance on equipment such as changing oil, oil filters, air filters, blades, etc. Work outdoors, sometimes under adverse climatic and hazardous conditions;
• Uses a variety of tools such as blower, rake, shovel, pitchfork, standard office tools, etc.; a variety of supplies such as janitorial supplies, mixed gas, weed eater line, gloves, bleach, disinfectant foam, towels, insect sprays, general office supplies.
• Meets and deals with the public in a professional, helpful and pleasant manner. Acts as a goodwill ambassador for the County at all times. Maintains a professional, cooperative working relationship with other Park staff members. Employees are also expected to lead by example and demonstrate the highest level of ethics.
• Work is generally performed outdoors.  
• Perform repetitive activities (calculating, keyboarding, and writing).
• This position will regularly utilize standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing systems, and fax machines.  At times, this may require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary.
• An employee may encounter spiders, snakes, poison ivy, and other allergic conditions.
• Employees in this position will typically perform the majority of their duties and responsibilities in an outdoor environment and be exposed to varying climatic conditions. The employee may: perform work alone, or as part of a team and in close proximity to others, be assigned duties at various site locations; be subject to call out, or work a varying work week.
• An employee may be exposed to wet, hot or cold conditions, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration, traffic, heights, confined spaces, slippery or uneven surfaces, and work around construction and maintenance equipment.
• The employee is required to perform tasks requiring a relatively high degree of physical strength and endurance, stand and walk for long periods of time, reach above and below waist level, have bodily movement adequate to climb, stoop, kneel, crawl, crouch and traverse rough uneven terrain, safely push, pull, lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds, push and pull mowers and other equipment; communicate clearly in person, by telephone, and by radio; have vision adequate to read fine print and visually identify diseases and pests; have manual dexterity and vision to safely use equipment and tools. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications and Skills

Must be at least 18 years of age due to hazards encountered on the job.  Previous experience performing grounds maintenance work for parks and recreational areas is highly desirable.  Valid Driver’s License required. 

Benefits and Perks

• Non Benefitted Position

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