Recreation/Sports Specialist III

Job Description

• Schedules sport fields painting in accordance with all athletic association rules and game schedules.
• Schedules equipment for preventative maintenance and repair.
• Operates light equipment required to install, maintain, and repair grounds, landscaping, landscape forms and structures.
• Operates forklifts; front-end loaders; lift trucks; tractors with a variety of attachments including buckets, brushes, thatchers, aerators, seeders, landscape rakes and snowplows; tailgate trucks; skid loaders with attachments; forklifts; and other light equipment.
• May be assigned to snow removal for a significant portion of the work shift during winter months.
• Constructs, repairs and maintains irrigation and sprinkler systems, retaining walls, as well as other small structures, working with both wood and dry-stack materials.
• Trims bushes and trees interfering with athletic field fencing.
• Cleans gutters and rain spouts; installs memorial plaques at designated campus locations; sets up and dismantles fixtures and furniture for campus functions; and installs banners.
• Gives work direction to Recreation/Sports Specialists I and II.
• Uses equipment to prepare sections of ground for streets, walkways, and parking lots; to excavate flower and shrub beds and tree wells; to excavate and grade sites for construction of landscape forms and other small structures: to form ground for drainage areas; to remove snow and ice from parking lots, roads, and walkways; to load other vehicles; and to perform other landscape and ground maintenance and installation functions.
• Fastens attachments to trucks and tractors with wedge-pin and other hitches; connects hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages and/or power takeoff shafts to trucks and tractors to provide power to raise, lower and tilt attachments; and operates levers and foot pedals to maneuver attachments while driving vehicles.
• Performs additional duties as requested by supervisory personnel.

Short Job Description

• High school diploma or equivalent from an accredited institution.
• Possess a Michigan Department of Agriculture Commercial Core Pesticide Applicator license in at least the categories right-of-way (category 6), turf (category 3a), and ornamental (category 3b).
• Possess a valid Michigan Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with air brakes