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Parks Maintenance Technician

Join the City of Durango's Parks and Recreation Department as a Parks Maintenance Technician and help keep our city beautiful. In this role, you'll help maintain and improve our irrigation systems while also assisting with landscaping, grounds, turf, trails, and athletic fields. You'll handle a variety of projects that change with the seasons and the needs of our community. This could mean anything from raking leaves and planting flowers to using light to heavy equipment for excavation and snow removal. We're looking for someone who is safety-oriented and can use their skills in carpentry, plumbing, and painting to maintain park amenities and playgrounds. You'll also represent the Parks and Recreation team, providing great customer service to city employees and the community. City of Durango's Trail to Excellence The City of Durango is a purpose-driven organization with more than 400 full-time and 300 part-time and seasonal employees across 15 departments, all working together to provide a wide range of services that keep our community running every day. From public safety and utilities to parks and recreation, our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality services that enhance the lives of all who live, work, and visit here. At the city, we focus on continually improving how we work and serve the community. This effort is called the Trail to Excellence (T2E), and every employee plays a part in it. Whether you work outdoors, in an office, or lead a team, your daily efforts connect to the city's mission of providing excellent service and reaching the city's vision of being a multigenerational community that is authentic, diverse, engaged, thriving, and environmentally responsible. The full details of this vision are outlined in the city's strategic plan. As a member of our team, your work will be meaningful because:

• Your ideas help shape citywide improvements.
• The work you do ties directly into measurable goals.
• You'll be part of a system that values collaboration, innovation, and results.

We're looking for team members who share our core values of teamwork, dependability, professionalism, service, respect, innovation, and wellbeing and who are excited to make a difference in the community we serve.

What You'll Do in This Role:

• Test, diagnose, adjust, repair and replace irrigation system components and operation.
• Maintain parks and grounds through a variety of tasks, including mowing, trimming, fertilizing, pruning, irrigating, excavating, and building and maintaining fences.
• Care for landscaping, including irrigating, removing weeds, raking leaves, and cultivating shrubs and trees.
• Install and maintain park equipment.
• Operate power tools and heavy equipment, including wood saws, chainsaws, leaf blowers, weed trimmers, backhoes, dump trucks, farm tractors, and Toolcats.

You Have:

• One to two years of experience in building and grounds maintenance.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• A valid state driver's license and the ability to obtain a commercial driver's license (CDL).

You Will Succeed in This Role If You:

• Have knowledge of irrigation system operation, maintenance, and repair.
• Understand traffic laws, ordinances, and regulations related to operating heavy equipment.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to following standard safety practices.

What We Can Offer You:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Ample personal time off (PTO) and 11 paid holidays.
• 401(a) retirement plan and optional deferred compensation plan.
• Basic life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Paid Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Free access to the Durango Community Recreation Center and Chapman Hill Ice Rink & Ski Area.
• Holistic Employee Wellness Program, addressing physical, mental, financial, and professional well-being.
• Free transit pass and family member discounts.
• Reimbursement for job-related classes to foster continuous learning.
• Sixteen hours of volunteer time off per year to support local non-profit organizations.

Belong at the City of Durango: We believe in creating an inclusive workforce that welcomes diversity of thoughts, viewpoints, and experiences. The City of Durango is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

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