Parks Operations Manager

Starting Hiring Range: $65,790.82-80,593.75
The purpose of this position is to manage parks maintenance operations by supervising and assisting employees in maintaining and managing parks and associated facilities.

• Manages the overall maintenance of parks, park facility, and park equipment. This includes managing and maintaining landscapes and turf, athletic fields, irrigation systems, playgrounds, splashpads, courts, and park facilities as well as assisting with special events.
• Supervises assigned employees in parks maintenance and assigns tasks, reviews daily work reports, and schedules employees. Inspects parks and employee work on a routine and regular basis to ensure adequate and preventative maintenance and management is appropriately conducted. This also includes conducting performance reviews and appropriately managing employee performance, as well as assisting with recruiting and managing licensing for assigned employees.
• Monitors, records, and manages playground inspection data.
  
• Ensures all job functions are performed safely and efficiently.
  
• Ensures parks are adequately maintained by strategic planning, developing projects and maintenance schedules, to include managing and conducting litter control, mowing, chemical applications, pest control, and all necessary and anticipated maintenance for parks and parks facilities.
• Investigates and documents accidents, graffiti, and vandalism.
• Prepares a variety of statistical, financial, and project reports and conducts various administrative duties.
• Assists with budget preparation and management, including processing and managing receipts and entering requisitions and purchase orders.
• Prepares and procures quotes and bids.
• Develops and manages projects as assigned, which may include reviewing plans and documents for major construction projects.
• Maintains a variety of equipment, tools, and vehicles and ensures they are in working order. This includes managing inventory and facilitating orders for supplies, uniforms for staff, tools, chemicals, and equipment, and ensures necessary items are ordered and ready for use.
• Manages the mowing contract for the City, including parks, City owned property, medians, and right of ways; manages other landscape and construction contracts.
• Participates in planning, organizing, and supervising activities, programs, and special events.
• Assists with park reservations and field rentals by preparing rentals and parks, communicating with department staff members, and occasionally meeting and coordinating with patrons regarding the use of facilities and parks.
• Assists employees with field work as necessary.
• Participates in the evaluations of existing programs and services.
• Provides customer service by resolving problems, evaluating complex and significant variables, and determining results guided by policy and mission statements.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

High school diploma or GED equivalent, is required. Bachelor's degree is preferred.

Minimum of five (5) years progressively responsible experience in municipal parks operations, municipal parks maintenance, or athletic field management, including supervisory experience, is required.

• This position normally performs the job by following established standard operating procedures and/or policies.
• Advanced knowledge of city and departmental practices, procedures, systems, and federal, state, and local laws, regulations, codes, ordinances, and best practices, including those relating to public parks, safety practices, parks equipment use and maintenance, and turf and landscape management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles and practices of parks and recreation programs and maintenance with use of analytical judgment and decision-making abilities appropriate to the work environment of the organization.
• Advanced ability to correctly interpret, explain, and apply laws, rules, operations, practices, procedures, regulations, and policies.
• Ability to effectively supervise staff in a proactive, appropriate, and productive manner.
• Ability to regularly interact with others and exchange and receive of information, providing effective and tactful customer service, and work independently with a high level of discretion.
• Ability to allocate and utilize limited resources in a cost-effective manner.
• Advanced ability to read a variety of materials and deal with system of real numbers, practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios/proportions, and measurement and to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.
• Advanced ability to interact with people in a professional and congenial manner.
• Advanced ability to learn and perform basic operational, technical, and office processes.
• Ability to follow instructions, safety practices, and perform work accurately and thoroughly which requires organization, and performing multiple tasks simultaneously under time pressures and deadlines.
• Knowledge, skill, and ability to utilize telephone, fax machines, computers and applicable software daily including, but not limited to, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook.
• Advanced skill level in data entry and preparing accurate reports.
• Advanced ability to communicate in a clear, effective, and concise manner, both orally and in writing, which may require public speaking.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Comprehensive knowledge of landscape management and irrigation systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of contract and budget management.
• General knowledge of light construction.
• Comprehensive knowledge of athletic field, turf, grass, and landscape maintenance.
• Ability to be punctual and attend work regularly.

Special Requirements
Mobility in a field environment with uneven terrain and during inclement weather is required.

Ability to work flexible hours including weekends, holidays, being on-call, and attending events or meetings after hours.

This position is classified as a safety-sensitive position and is subject to FMCSA DOT requirements and random drug and alcohol testing during the course of employment.

Licenses & Certifications
Certification as a Park and Recreation Professional is preferred.

TDA Pesticide Applicators License required, or must be obtained within six (6) months of employment.

Must possess and maintain a valid Texas Class B Commercial Drivers License, with acceptable driving record as established by the City of Midlothian driving standards, or must obtain within one (1) year of employment.

Work Environment
Work is performed in outdoor climates and a climate-controlled office environment. Exposure to extreme/inclement weather conditions. Physical demands include lifting (up to 50 lbs.), sitting, walking, and standing. Work performed may cause fatigue of eyes and other faculties because of fairly continuous use of motor senses.