About Our Job

With competitive pay great benefits and endless opportunities working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose for you and those who benefit from your passion skills and expertise. Join our diverse inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver Denver.

What We Offer

This is an oncall position which means it is a parttime hourly role. This position will work no more than 39 hours per week. The starting pay for this position is $19.59/hour and is eligible to enroll in the City and County of Denvers 457b retirement plan. This position is not eligible for other additional benefits. Oncall positions may have routine or variable work schedules.

Location

These positions will report to 678 S. Jason St. Denver CO. Work schedules will be either Tuesday Saturday or Sunday Thursday with weekday shifts at 7:00 a.m. 3:30 p.m. and weekend shifts at 5:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m.

What Youll Do

Seasonal Athletic Fields Maintenance Workers provide operational support for Denvers Athletic Fields located throughout the City of Denver including maintenance of athletic fields and related facilities. These positions provide the opportunity to gain a wide variety of valuable experience in athletic field and turf management while applying best practices in ensuring that Denvers community members can indulge safely in athletics and the wellbeing they bring.

DPR recognizes the importance of diversity in the representation of our organization to best serve our customers and community. To that end DPR is committed to:

• Examining department policies and processes that value diverse perspectives and eliminate barriers to inclusion

• Identifying where inequities exist and implementing strategies to ensure equitable outcomes

• Strengthening diversity in Parks and Recreation services by transforming policies to institutionalize equity

• Reinvesting in resources aimed at ensuring DPR is an equitable and just organization

Skills to be developed and utilized:

• Utilize and maintain trailers handpowered tools and motorized equipment in a safe and efficient manner

• Work outdoors to perform athletic field operations:

  • Athletic field preparation including lining dragging laying out and squaring athletic fields with various layouts; utilizing basic math skills to ensure proper layout/measurements

  • Athletic field repair and preventative maintenance including various turf management tasks such as mowing aerating seeding top dressing and ensuring appropriately functioning irrigation

  • Related landscaping duties to maintain aesthetics of ball field facilities such as edging sodding trimming raking horticultural work etc.

• Perform various facilities and infrastructure maintenance tasks such as painting and minor repairs

• Interact with and learn best practices from more seasoned and knowledgeable athletic field and turf management experts; develop skills to understand how community athletic fields can best suit the needs of community athletic leagues and sports enthusiasts

• Perform snow removal operations such as plowing shoveling deicing

• Various related duties as needed such as trash collection bathroom maintenance and cleaning vandalism repair and graffiti removal

What Youll Bring

We value diversity of ethnicity race socioeconomic status sexual identity gender religion language ability and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. Youll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself your work the people around you and Denver to the next level.

We are seeking reliable and driven individuals who are looking to develop a wellrounded skill set in the pursuit of or interest in an athletic field/turf management career. Our ideal candidates will enjoy working outside be adept with safety considerations and are eager to make a positive impact on the community.

Additionally our ideal candidates will have:

• Knowledge of athletic sports (baseball football kickball rugby soccer lacrosse etc. and field layouts

• Experience with facilities and landscape maintenance

• Basic math skills such as measuring addition/subtraction/multiplication/division and problem solving

• Experience with light to heavy equipment operation (such as mowers tractors trailers) and handpowered tools

• Ability to work independently with considerable responsibility

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education: None

• Experience: None

• Licenses/Certification(s): Requires a valid Drivers License at the time of application. Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment

Application Deadline

Applications for this position are accepted on a rolling basis. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure consideration

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