Job Description
Chesapeake Parks, Recreation, and Tourism is seeking a skilled and dependable Equipment Operator II to support the maintenance and enhancement of the City's parks, athletic fields, and public green spaces. This role plays an important part in ensuring City facilities remain safe, functional, and welcoming for residents and visitors.
This position is responsible for operating specialized motorized equipment, power tools, and hand tools in support of the maintenance and improvement of park grounds, athletic fields, and other City facilities. Work includes a variety of routine and skilled tasks such as grading, digging, mowing, trimming, landscaping, planting, athletic field renovation and preparation, fertilizing, pruning trees and shrubs, removing and installing park amenities, litter control, topdressing, aeration, edging, mulching, painting, and general repairs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operate and maintain equipment such as dump trucks, front-end loaders, backhoes, tractors with attachments, specialized mowers, topdressers, and small graders
- Perform landscaping and grounds maintenance including turf care, planting, weeding, pruning, mulching, and related duties
- Support athletic field preparation, renovation, and upkeep
- Remove trees, stumps, roots, debris, and dead vegetation as needed
- Perform minor maintenance and report equipment malfunctions or damage to supervisors
- Assist with repairs, construction, inspections, and maintenance of park amenities, facilities, fixtures, signage, walkways, roads, and parking areas
- Conduct safety inspections of parks, recreational facilities, sidewalks, and event sites, ensuring timely repairs to protect public safety
- Perform custodial duties including litter and trash removal and restroom cleaning and stocking as needed
- Support event preparation and logistics, including setup and breakdown of tents, barricades, and recreational equipment
- Provide responsive customer service in alignment with the City's Customer Service Initiative
- Collaborate with other City departments, contractors, volunteer groups, and community partners
- Assist with monitoring contractor work to ensure compliance with specifications and standards
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
Chesapeake Parks, Recreation, and Tourism is seeking a skilled and dependable Equipment Operator II to support the maintenance and enhancement of the City's parks, athletic fields, and public green spaces. This role plays an important part in ensuring City facilities remain safe, functional, and welcoming for residents and visitors.
This position is responsible for operating specialized motorized equipment, power tools, and hand tools in support of the maintenance and improvement of park grounds, athletic fields, and other City facilities. Work includes a variety of routine and skilled tasks such as grading, digging, mowing, trimming, landscaping, planting, athletic field renovation and preparation, fertilizing, pruning trees and shrubs, removing and installing park amenities, litter control, topdressing, aeration, edging, mulching, painting, and general repairs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operate and maintain equipment such as dump trucks, front-end loaders, backhoes, tractors with attachments, specialized mowers, topdressers, and small graders
- Perform landscaping and grounds maintenance including turf care, planting, weeding, pruning, mulching, and related duties
- Support athletic field preparation, renovation, and upkeep
- Remove trees, stumps, roots, debris, and dead vegetation as needed
- Perform minor maintenance and report equipment malfunctions or damage to supervisors
- Assist with repairs, construction, inspections, and maintenance of park amenities, facilities, fixtures, signage, walkways, roads, and parking areas
- Conduct safety inspections of parks, recreational facilities, sidewalks, and event sites, ensuring timely repairs to protect public safety
- Perform custodial duties including litter and trash removal and restroom cleaning and stocking as needed
- Support event preparation and logistics, including setup and breakdown of tents, barricades, and recreational equipment
- Provide responsive customer service in alignment with the City's Customer Service Initiative
- Collaborate with other City departments, contractors, volunteer groups, and community partners
- Assist with monitoring contractor work to ensure compliance with specifications and standards
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
About City of Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living.
Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family.
Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country!
The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history.
Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake.
Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.
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