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Parks Recreation and Natural Resources

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Love the Outdoors, Sports, and Making a Difference?

Put your skills to work maintaining and enhancing Sarasota County’s BMX Track and athletic facilities! We’re looking for a hands-on professional with lawn care experience, a passion for sports, and top-notch customer service skills.

You’ll operate equipment, perform skilled maintenance, and work closely with the local BMX club—all while helping our parks and sports community shine.

Apply today and take the lead in keeping Sarasota County’s athletic spaces in championship shape!About the Position

+ Performance of skilled routine maintenance and repairs of BMX Track/athletic facilities, surfaces and grounds utilizing commercial-grade mowers and other specialized equipment

+ Performs proper maintenance techniques to ensure a safe BMX track, including maintaining the riding surface, spot repairs, painting lines, start gate repairs, timing system, and ramp repairs. Includes regular mowing, slurrying, watering, edging, and trimming

+ Able to use all types of hand tools, rakes, shovels, tampers, etc. Operates special equipment in the maintenance, repair, and renovation of athletic facilities, including: Tractors, Combinator, Box blades, Tillers, Laser Grader, Backhoe, Multi Pro Sprayer

+ Performs Athletic facility renovations on BMX Track, Baseball, Softball, Football, Soccer, Multi-purpose fields, and all associated amenities required per project

+ Routine Park maintenance includes hand weeding, mulching, digging, turf trimming, tree trimming, hand collection and disposal of litter, removal and installation of plant materials and trees, and driving on roads and vegetated maintenance areas. Some equipment will include diesel- or gas-powered commercial-grade landscape mowers such as Toro Outcross with Tow Behind Field Mower, Toro 4000D, 4500D, Reel Mower, and Toro 72 “Z” mower

+ Safely operate, fuel, perform general maintenance, change mower blades, clean equipment, perform small-engine repairs and safety checks on all listed equipment. These tasks will require the use of pneumatic, power and hand tools.

+ Maintains records of work performed, including submitting time to the work management system. Completes electronic reporting forms, including inspection reports, safety checks, incident forms, etc.

+ Work with staff, facilities maintenance, volunteers, and contractors to ensure the park and facility are clean, safe, and accessible for public use, and that maintenance areas are maintained to the desired level of service to promote local programming and sports tourism initiatives

+ Other duties assigned by the supervisor

About the Work Schedule

Work Hours:

+ Operating Days: Sunday - Saturday

+ Work Full-Time, 40 hours per week

+ 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. shifts

+ Enjoy a flexible, rotating schedule that supports park operations and special events

+ Be ready to jump in for occasional evening or weekend shifts during exciting community events

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

+ High School Diploma or equivalent education

+ Three (3) years of experience, education, training or any combination of experience, education and training in the renovation of athletic fields

+ Valid Florida Driver's License by date of hire

Preferred "BONUS" Qualifications:

+ Previous experience with the renovation and/or maintenance of a BMX or athletic facilities

+ Operate special equipment in the maintenance, repair, and renovation of athletic facilities, including t ractors, combinator, box blades, tillers, laser grader, backhoe, multi pro sprayer, etc.

Subject to Passing Substance Screening: This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening. An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years.

Physical Demands: This position must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs, with the use of a handling device or working with another team member to lift and/or move excessive poundage of 50 plus pounds.

About Everything Else

Starting Pay: $22.14/hr (Step 1)

Potential higher pay (steps) for those with multiple years of experience.

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).

If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents (http://www.scgov.net/home/showpublisheddocument/66596/638617478290291353) . You will need to present the following items on your first day:

1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents

+ If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. (Your Florida Driver’s License can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List B Documents.)

2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)

Benefits:

+ Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! C hoose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!

+ For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net (https://www.scgov.net/government/human-resources/employee-health-and-benefits) for additional information.

+ Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms at multiple Sarasota County Government locations.

+ Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)​​

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We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.

Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally.

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

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