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

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The starting pay range for this position is between $22.53 $28.17/hour. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension once vested after 5 years of service

• 457B Retirement Plan

• 140 hours of PTO earned within first year 11 paid holidays 1 personal holiday and 1 volunteer day per year

• Competitive medical dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date

Location

Denver Parks and Recreation is seeking a Parks Utility Worker II to support Park Operations in the Northeast district. This is a full-time benefitted opportunity that will perform a wide variety of general park maintenance duties and will also perform lead work over less experienced individual will have the opportunity to make an impact and grow professionally from unique experiences and maintaining highly visibility parks.

This position will work Monday Friday 6:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. and will work some weekends to accommodate special events/projects or respond to snow see a map of the parks within this district please click here.

What Youll Do

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

Job duties and responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to the following:

• Work outdoors in parks using and maintaining various hand-powered tools and motorized equipment in a safe and efficient manner and demonstrating proper use as needed

• Perform landscape maintenance duties such as turf maintenance (e.g. laying sod fertilizing mowing edging raking) irrigation (minor maintenance repair troubleshooting and use of central control systems) and ornamental/garden maintenance (planting weeding minor pruning)

• Perform infrastructure maintenance and repair such as fencing asphalt concrete trails work grade work/erosion control

• Exercise leadership skills over less experienced parks workers and serve as an example of proper work skills including training and supporting the development and orientation of workers

• Work collaboratively and build strong working relationships with park maintenance generalists and/or specialists such as Irrigation Maintenance Technicians Horticultural Workers Park Horticulturists and other experts in unique green industry fields and skilled trades work

• Perform snow removal operations such as plowing shoveling de-icing

• Perform various related duties as needed such as trash collection bathroom maintenance and cleaning vandalism repair/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 looking for a knowledgeable and experienced parks professional who is looking for a leadership opportunity to grow and develop in their career. Our ideal candidate will be adept with safety considerations and skilled in both building strong working relationships and capitalizing on their leadership skills. Additionally our ideal candidate will have:

Well-rounded variety of parks maintenance experience

The ability to obtain proficiency in demonstrate and train others on best practices with various parks maintenance skills

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education requirement: None

• Experience Requirement: One (1) year of experience performing unskilled labor work

• Education/Experience Equivalency: Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirement

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

Application Deadline

This position is expected to stay open until 2/26/2026. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than 2/26/2026 at 11:59 p.m. MST

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The City and County of Denver provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability genetic information age or any other status protected under federal state and/or local law.

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