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For this Custodial and Grounds Maintenance Worker role, please read the full job announcement before applying.

Duties include:

• Performs simple and routine work involved in the maintenance and repair of grounds, exterior structures, buildings and related utilities, requiring the use of a variety of trade practices.
• Responsible for the general cleaning, ground maintenance, repairs to the grounds, buildings and structures of the parks and the efficient operation, maintenance, and care taking of buildings, structures and grounds serving public and domestic use throughout the park.
• Position also focuses on custodial services, including cleaning sinks, toilets, sweeping and mopping floors, and ensuring that there are adequate supplies of soap, towels, and toilet paper for a public restrooms throughout the park, picnic areas, and/or camp grounds.

Read the full job announcement at USAJOBS.gov before submitting an application.

Job duties include:

• Operates heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand tools (such as shovels rakes, lawn edging equipment, etc.), to maintain buildings, grounds, roads, trails, etc.
• Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc. Moves furniture, removes and sets signs, paints picnic tables and signs, rakes and waters lawns, trims trees and shrubbery, picks up litter, and cleans fire pits.
• Digs ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads. Moves heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; uses heavy type power mowers including adjusting blades, cleaning and oiling. Cuts heavy trees with axe or chainsaw; stacks heavy logs, lumber, and sacks of cement, etc., or performs other duties requiring similar judgment and comparable physical effort.
• Performs janitorial duties for buildings in the absence of janitor and as back-up support.

Read the full job announcement and job description at USAJOBS.gov.

• Operates heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, chain saws, brush cutters, brush chippers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand and light power tools.
• Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc.
• Digs ditches and trenches; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads.
• Performs janitorial duties for buildings and grounds when required.
• Operates vehicles in all traffic conditions, performs minor operator maintenance, vehicles weigh up 10,000 pounds.

Please read the full job announcement and job description at USAJobs.gov before submitting a federal resume and other required documents.

• Operates full range of track and wheel mounted engineering equipment such as motor grader, front end loader, bulldozer, excavator, backhoe, snow plows, sander and dump truck.
• Performs typical duties such as grade roads and building sites, push material into piles, load and drive trucks, dig trenches, clear sites of brush.
• Moves equipment from site to site using truck and trailer.
• Digs and cleans ditches. Installs culverts with outlets, inlets, and head walls.
• Removes and trims trees. Chips, bucks, and hauls down wood using chain saws, chippers, and chip trucks.
• Assists with maintenance and repair of equipment.
• Operates small equipment and hand tools such as chains saws, chipper, brusher, shovels and rakes.
• Performs general maintenance work such as erecting signs, repairing fence, cutting vegetation, or cleaning ditch.
• Leads work of lower graded employees at times.