About This Role
The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce. By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.
**Essential Job Duties**
- Provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees (especially members of his or her own team), and have regular and reliable attendance that is non-disruptive.
- Provide labor to assist all areas of the division as assigned.
- Operate mowers, weed eaters, blowers and other small engine equipment.
- Clean restrooms as assigned.
- Perform physical labor including using a shovel, rake and other various hand tools.
- Pick up litter from parks and trails.
- Clean shop and storage areas.
- Install holiday lights which typically involve working from aerial lifts and on ladders.
**Horticulture Assignment**
- Assist with cultivation and care of flowers, plants, shrubs, trees and turf on public spaces.
- Participate in propagation, care and transplanting of plants.
- Maintain assigned flower beds and gardens in public spaces.
- Assist with care and maintenance of equipment.
- Interact with the public and answer garden related questions.
**Minimum Qualifications**
- No prior training or experience is required. Prefer six months of related experience.
- Must successfully pass a criminal background check.
- Effectively communicate with others orally and in writing.
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
- Must be proficient in the use of various hand tools.
- Regularly required to stand, walk, and sit, and lift up to 50 pounds (occasionally 100 pounds).