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:
1. 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.
2. Serve as a lead worker assisting in the supervision of a crew.
3. Operate heavy construction equipment such as a backhoe, bobcat skid loader, dump truck and front end loader.
4. May be assigned to any of the following areas within the division - grounds maintenance, facilities maintenance, equipment maintenance, athletic field maintenance or urban forestry.
5. Perform turf maintenance and mowing functions as needed.
6. Perform chemical applications including fertilization to turf.
7. Perform basic carpentry and concrete work.
8. Design, install and repair irrigation systems.
9. Move equipment and materials to and from job sites.
10. Maintain equipment through daily maintenance and inspections.
11. Serve in an on-call status as assigned to respond to after-hours service needs.
12. Remove snow and ice from downtown square area and other parks and trails.
13. Install holiday lights which typically involves working from aerial lifts and on ladders.
14. Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. High school diploma or GED and 18 months of related experience.
2. Must possess a valid Driver's License and have the ability to obtain a Class A CDL license within six (6) months of hire date.
3. Must successfully pass criminal background check, including but not limited to convictions, guilty pleas, or no contest pleas to violent offenses, theft offenses, offenses against children, and any offense that would qualify to prevent a person from obtaining an Arkansas teaching certificate (A.C.A. 6-17-410).
4. Effectively communicate with others orally and in writing.
5. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
6. 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 distance.
7. Must be able to operate various hand tools, trucks, mowers, backhoe, front end loader, bush hog, skid loaders, dump truck, sweeper, utility vehicle, trailers, tractors, chain saw, and aerial lift.
8. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
9. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions and risk of vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.