Part-Time Park Maintenance Worker
New Yesterday
Job Posting
Ramona Municipal Water District
$21.63 Hourly
105 Earlham St, Ramona
Part-Time
PTPRK725
Finance
Purchasing
07/03/2025
Examples Of Duties / Knowledge & Skills
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Assists the district in unlocking and locking the Ramona Community Park grounds, restrooms, senior center, and the outdoor community center
- Performs light custodial cleanup after events including; ensuring floors are clean, dry and debris free, and is performing general cleanup/wiping down of tables, chairs, countertops and appliances
- Cleans restrooms; replenishes paper dispensers and other supplies as needed
- Ensures bathroom floors are debris free and dry
- Polices and picks up paper, trash, and other refuse and removes from grounds/park sites
- Ensures all trash receptacles around the park and in park facilities are emptied and relined
- Performs general maintenance work on buildings, structures, and playground equipment in parks and landscaped areas
- Weeds grounds and other landscaped areas
- Trims, prunes, and maintains trees and shrubs; removes dead or diseased limbs and branches using hand saws, power saws, and other trimming devices
- Assists in graffiti removal on equipment, buildings and other structures
- Operates hand and power tools and equipment including power mowers, edgers, trimmers, blowers, chain saws, hedgers, and other grounds maintenance tools
- Tactfully responds to questions and comments from the public or conveys information as appropriate
- Performs related duties similar to the above in scope and function as required
- Has awareness of the user groups calendar and can track that the correct groups are in their allocated field/time
- Has awareness about the lights in the park and making sure they are not on if no one is using the fields
Minimum Qualifications & Requirements
Knowledge of:
- Common gardening methods, tools, supplies
- Safe motor vehicle and traffic laws
- Safe work practices
- Computer terminal operating techniques and word processing methods
- Record keeping procedures
- Basic mathematics
- Proper English usage, spelling, grammar and punctuation
Ability to:
- Learn a variety of park and landscape maintenance work assignments
- Learn the safe and proper use of park maintenance tools and equipment
- Effectively and tactfully communicate in both oral and written forms by using phone, text or e-mail communications
- Reports important information pertaining to the Ramona Community Park, its facilities and its users to their supervisor and to the Park and Facilities Administrator
- Establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties
- Work effectively as a crew member
- Perform basic arithmetical calculations
- Complete log books
- Work safely
- Perform physical tasks involving frequent bending, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of weights up to 50 pounds as determined by a pre-employment physical
- Drive an automobile
- Climb ladders to prune trees
- Work at various heights on appropriate equipment to string lights, banners, change light bulbs, etc.
Supplemental Information
Experience:
Any combination of training or experience that could likely provide the required knowledge and abilities stated above, and the ability to perform the duties of the position would be qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Experience: A minimum of one year of responsible grounds maintenance experience requiring accuracy and attention to detail is qualifying.
Licenses and Certificates:
Possession of a valid California driver's license, Class C, with ability to maintain insurability under the District's insurance carrier.
Physical Demands:
Ability to lift, carry, push and pull heavy objects such as cement and fertilizer bags. Ability to walk, stand, stoop and crouch for long periods of time. Ability to climb ladders. Dig ditches and post holes. Willing to work evenings and weekends.
Other Requirements:
Must be at least 18 years of age at the time of employment.
The information contained herein is subject to change and does not constitute an expressed or implied contract.
- Location:
- Ramona
- Job Type:
- PartTime