Maintenance Specialist - Parks and Landscape

Description

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The City of Cypress is seeking a motivated and experienced Maintenance Specialist to join our Public Works team! You will play a vital role in preserving and improving our public outdoor spaces, ensuring that our community's parks, athletic fields, and landscape remain safe, clean, and beautiful for residents and visitors.

Example of Duties

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Duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following

• Lay out the work and instruct crew members in safe and effective methods and use of equipment and tools in park and landscape maintenance.
• Maintain park and landscape areas.
• Identify, treat, and prevent plant/tree diseases.
• Lay out, design, and install sprinkler irrigation systems, both manual and automatic.
• Trouble-shoot and repair damaged controllers, controller wires and broken irrigation lines and sprinkler heads.
• Safely load and unload supplies, materials and equipment.
• Perform heavy and light manual labor using a variety of common tools and equipment.
• Requisition materials and equipment.
• Train subordinates.
• Accurately complete work reports.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Typical Qualifications

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Knowledge of

• Specialized methods, equipment, materials and work practices of parks and landscape maintenance activities, including proper irrigation design and repair.
• Treatment and prevention of ornamental tree and plant diseases.
• Methods, supplies and tools used in planting, cultivating and caring for lawns, trees and shrubs.
• Basics of supervision and training.
• Blueprint reading and interpretation.
• Safety precautions and practices, including the use of personal protective equipment necessary in working with hand tools and public works equipment.
• Safe driving practices and State and local laws pertaining to the operation of assigned commercial and other motor vehicles on streets and roads....