Responsible for performing skilled manual labor tasks for the maintenance, repair, and installation work in assigned division. Responsible for operating heavy equipment, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Technicians require trade-specific knowledge and licenses, may work with greater independence, and may provide training and/or guidance to small team of Park Maintenance Workers.
Pay Range: $17.51 - $21.80 (Depending on qualifications and experience)
Work Schedule: TBD
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Performs general and skilled maintenance, repair, and installation duties in assigned specialty area.
Operates CDL vehicles, tractors, heavy equipment, and specialty tools.
Diagnoses and corrects hazards, system failures, and maintenance issues.
Ensures compliance with (TDA), TCEQ, TAC and other applicable regulatory standards.
Maintains records, logs, inventories, and work reports.
Trains and assists Park Maintenance Workers; may act as lead in Crew Leader’s absence.
Operate a city vehicle to assist in carrying out routine maintenance.
Division-Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Landscape: Maintains ornamental and floral beds, plants/shrubs/trees, applies pesticides/fertilizers, manages beautification projects, completes small irrigation repairs in landscape beds i.e. drip and popup heads.
Minimum Qualifications
High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED)
2 years of related experience.
Valid Class C Texas driver's license
Athletics, Grounds, Landscape: TDA Pesticide Applicator within six months of hire.
Aquatics: Certified Pool Operator (CPO) or Aquatic Facility Operator (AFO) within six months of hire.
Physical Requirements & Work Environment
Incumbent will be subjected to frequent standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, lifting, reaching, pulling and pushing, and carrying up to 50 pounds. Work performed outdoors in extreme weather conditions, heat and cold, rain, humidity, wetness, insects. Exposure to dust, noise, fumes, traffic, and hazardous materials. May also be exposed to potential biohazards including trash, animal waste, bloodborne pathogens, and unsanitary conditions in public areas. May work in confined spaces, on ladders up to 12 feet, and near moving mechanical parts.
Garland is where things are made. Products, careers and opportunities are made here. Friendships that last a lifetime are made here, and generations of families have made this part of Texas their home.
As early as the mid-1800s, settlers began arriving in what is now Garland. The pioneers found the black soil ideal for cotton and the communities of Duck Creek and Embree thrived on that crop. In 1886, two railroad lines built depots in the area. Eventually those two communities combined and became Garland, officially incorporated in 1891.
Garland enjoys a rich history that has shaped it into the thriving metropolitan-area city that offers its residents and businesses a high quality of life, excellent educational and workforce development opportunities, and is enhanced by community leadership and partners. Garland is proud of its affordable and business-friendly climate.
