Park Caretaker I - Bc-02

Cares for, maintains, and beautifies parks, playgrounds, recreational facilities, cemeteries, and offices, and other landscaped areas; may operate a power mower; and performs other related duties as required.

• Cares for and maintains lawns, hedges, trees, and shrubbery by cleaning, picking up trash and pulling trash, planting, watering, fertilizing, trimming, mowing, sweeping, and raking.
• Informs the public on the rules and ordinances applicable to the protection of public safety and public property.
• Maintains athletic fields and baseball diamonds in good condition for play.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Makes simple oral or written reports.
• May operate a vehicle to transport equipment, materials, and employees; to travel from one park to another; and to deliver trash to staging area or transfer station; and maintains and services vehicle.
• Prepare paperwork to include cemetery records, daily worksheets, work orders, etc. Notifies the public on departmental and cemetery rules and regulations. Assists the public in locating grave plots.
• Operates light motorized or power equipment and tools as required.
• May make minor maintenance repairs such as but not limited to painting touch-ups and over graffiti; replacing door knobs and hinges; re-hanging new doors; boarding up broken entrances/windows; changing light bulbs; and replacing faucets, washers, and toilet floats.
• Cleans comfort stations, pavilions, gymnasiums, swimming pools, water fountains, barbecue pits, and facilities located at the public parks and recreational areas, including office and administrative buildings.
• Sprays insecticides and herbicides in order to eradicate harmful insects and weeds.
• Occasionally assists in the various trades as required.
• Prepares burial plots, setting and aligning headstones, filling sunken grave sites, assisting mortuary personnel when requested, removing dead flowers, and keeping grave site clean and manicured.
• Assists in planting shrubbery and plants, sodding lawns, and propagating plants and shrubs from seeds, cuttings, and roots.

• Possession of a valid State of Hawai`i driver's license (Class 3) or any other valid comparable driver's license at the time of filing, as applicable to the position. (You will be required to submit a valid driver's license at the time of hire, if the position requires a driver's license).

• As applicable to the position, possession of a current Department of Transportation Medical Examiner's Certificate is required prior to appointment.
• In-person interviews and/or further testing in Hawai'i County may be required at the discretion of the hiring department/agency. If in-person interviews and/or further testing are required, applicants who are referred to the hiring department/agency must be available to participate in person and at their own expense at that phase of the selection process.

Please scan and attach these supporting documents to your on-line application, if required:

• Professional licenses, and/or
• Certificates.
• An official college transcript,
• A temporary assignment verification,
• A valid driver's license,