Grounds Maintenance Worker - Turf & Landscape

Join the City of St. Cloud as a Grounds Maintenance Worker – Turf & Landscape!

Are you someone who takes pride in keeping outdoor spaces beautiful and well-maintained? The City of St. Cloud is seeking a dedicated Grounds Maintenance Worker to join our Turf & Landscape Division. In this role, you’ll provide semi-skilled and skilled labor to help ensure our parks, public spaces, and landscapes are vibrant and welcoming for all.

As a valued member of our team, you’ll embrace the City’s core values:

1. Accountability: Take responsibility for delivering high-quality maintenance work that enhances the appearance and functionality of our public spaces.
2. Empowerment: Work with a supportive team where your skills and contributions make a difference in the community.
3. Innovation: Use modern techniques, tools, and approaches to efficiently maintain turf and landscape areas, always looking for ways to improve processes.
4. Ownership: Approach each task with a sense of pride and dedication, ensuring every space you care for reflects the City’s commitment to excellence.

If you’re ready to grow your career, enjoy meaningful work, and help make St. Cloud a better place for all, we’d love to have you on our team! Work hours are from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm.

Apply today to be part of something bigger.

The functions listed below represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

1. Operates the riding mower, smaller mowers, saws, edger, weedeater, blower, and smaller power tools.
2. Performs work and restores properties to best possible condition after sub-grade repairs.
3. Removes weeds and debris from working areas, public lands, rights-of-way, and other areas.
4. Does regular and routine maintenance, cleaning, repairs, and servicing of equipment used on the job; reports major equipment problems to the equipment maintenance supervisor, and delivers equipment for repair.
5. Works on a call-out basis in response to emergencies such as special events, natural disasters, leaks, equipment failures, and other emergency calls.
6. May need to work on weekends.
7. Answers citizen and agency representative inquiries when approached on the job; provides information on the nature of the work and schedule; refers more complex questions to the supervisor.
8. Performs other duties as necessary.

Minimum Requirements:

1. High School Diploma or Completion of GED.
2. Experience in building or grounds maintenance.
3. Maintenance of a current/valid State of Florida Driver License which meets requirements outlined in the City's Personnel Rules and Regulations Manual as well as any requirements by the City's insurance carrier, determined by the City to be an acceptable driving record history.
4. Able to communicate effectively in common English.

Physical Requirements:

1. Ability to frequently (3-5 hours per day) walk, run, climb hills and ladders, stoop, crouch, bend, pull, push, kneel, crawl or lift whatever way is required to perform the job.
2. Ability to frequently (3-5 hours per day) lift up to 50 pounds of weight to waist and/or head level.
3. Ability to learn the operation of light truck, tractors, and other equipment if assigned.
4. Ability to frequently (>3 hours per day) perform heavy manual labor.

Knowledge and Skills:

1. Knowledge of the standard methods, materials, and tools used in the field.
2. Knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions of the work.
3. Skill in the use of mowers, edgers, weed eaters, blowers, trimmers, lobbers, saws, and other standard tools and equipment of the work.
4. Some knowledge of the tools and equipment used in general maintenance work.
5. Knowledge in types of turf, plants, and trees needed to properly maintain them.

Mathematics:
Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Language Ability:
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment:
Ability to physically work in extreme heat and extreme cold. Able to tolerate and/or work with insects, reptiles, fowl, and/or mammals, frequently (3-5 hours per day), and excessive noises.