Job Posting Information The Park Maintenance Worker is responsible for maintaining City of Duluth landscapes, gardens, parks, trails, urban forests, athletic fields, and recreation areas. Essential Duties & Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned) ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Develop and implement basic garden and landscape designs employing the methods, materials, and tools used in landscape construction and maintenance. 2. Perform planting and maintenance of annuals, perennials, turf, and shrubs according to instructions and planned design of landscaped areas. Perform mowing and maintenance of lawns, including string trimming, raking, watering, aerating, fertilizing, spraying and topdressing, using basic mathematical calculations to determine proper application of fertilizer and pesticide. 3. Install, maintain, program, operate, and repair irrigation and drainage systems. 4. Maintain ski trails and ski hills by grooming and snow making (winter) and clearing them of debris such as fallen trees and brush (summer/fall). 5. Install and maintain a variety of natural surface, boardwalks and paved trails including mowing, construction, general repair, erosion control, culvert repair and installation, and trail/bridge structure upkeep. 6. Install and maintain regulatory and wayfinding signage. 7. Perform technical tree felling techniques in a variety of complex urban situations both with and without an aerial bucket truck. 8. Perform stump grinding, structural tree pruning, planting, transplanting and watering of trees, establishing work zone signage and directing pedestrian/vehicle traffic. 9. Perform injections and other control methods to mitigate tree disease. 10. Respond to storm-damaged trees, as needed. 11. Construct, build, renovate, groom, maintain, and repair athletic fields and turf areas, including infields, pitching mounds, and bases. 12. Prepare athletic fields for recreational use, including the installation and removal of temporary fencing and chalking and lining fields. 13. Maintain ice rinks by flooding, banking, sweeping, and repairing. 14. Perform snow plowing and snow removal operations associated with streets, alleys, sidewalks, parking lots, and ice rinks. 15. Maintain walkways by shoveling snow and delivering deicing treatments to prevent ice buildup, utilizing sustainable practices. 16. Perform plowing for Street Maintenance in snow events and emergencies, as assigned. 17. Construct, install, inspect and maintain retaining walls, signage, fences, picnic tables, grills, benches, garbage cans, playgrounds and other park amenities. 18. Maintain parks by collecting and disposing of garbage, debris, litter and abandoned waste. 19. Clean and sanitize restrooms. 20. Operate a wide variety of gardening, forestry, landscaping and snow removal equipment to include: hand tools, power tools, sprayers, mowers, aerial bucket truck, log truck, trackless, chainsaws, wood chipper, stump grinders, hedge trimmers, pick-up truck, one-ton dump truck, front-end loader, backhoes, sod cutter, skid steer, tandems and five yard plow truck, multi-use vehicles with attachments (brooms, blowers, blades), snow blowers, plows, and spreaders. 21. Perform minor and preventative maintenance and repairs to tools, equipment, and vehicles. 22. Plan, organize, promote, implement, instruct and supervise the maintenance activities of assigned temporary and seasonal team members. 23. Be an effective team member by exhibiting self-motivation, supporting other employees in handling tasks, interacting effectively and respectfully with others, showing a desire to contribute to the team effort, accepting assignments willingly, and completing tasks within agreed upon timelines. 24. Other duties may be assigned.