Wellfield Park Athletic Fields Specialist

Department:

Parks Recreation and Natural Resources

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Love Sports? Keep Our Fields Game-Ready!

Join the Parks, Recreation & Natural Resources team as an Athletic Fields Specialist! This hands-on role combines your passion for sports with maintenance skills to ensure our athletic fields and facilities are always safe, clean, and in top condition. Perform light-to-heavy physical tasks, conduct regular inspections, and play a key part in creating exceptional experiences for athletes and the community.

Apply today and help our fields shine!

About the Position

• Provide polite, friendly, and accurate customer service

• Maintain safe, playable surfaces, including infield skin, baselines, pitching mounds, home plate areas, and warning tracks; perform dragging, watering, mowing, edging, and trimming

• Paint and mark fields, set bases and pitching mounds to proper dimensions, and handle setup/cleanup for practices, games, tournaments, and events

• Perform general grounds maintenance, repairs, and janitorial duties for fields, fencing, amenities, common areas, and parking lots

• Conduct park patrols and inspections to ensure public safety and report hazards or maintenance issues to supervisors

• Assist in deciding field playability based on weather and field conditions

• Exercise initiative and decision-making to ensure customer satisfaction

         

Work Hours:  Monday - Friday, 6:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:  

• High School Diploma or its equivalent

• One (1) year of experience as a semi-skilled laborer in the care and maintenance of parks, landscape, athletic fields, or other similar grounds

• Valid Florida driver's license by time of hire

Preferred "BONUS" Qualifications: 

• General knowledge of methods and techniques, of prepping and maintaining athletic field turf and adjunct facilities

• Ability to read material safety data sheets (MSDS)

• Ability to perform heavy manual labor for extended periods, often under hot and humid conditions

Physical Demands:

• Employees in this role must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs. Examples include fertilizer bags and other various items, throughout the year

• Employees can use handling devices (dolly, cart, etc.) or work with another team member to lift and/or move excessive poundage of 50-plus pounds. However, if equipment or another team member is unavailable, this position will require lifting by hand

Subject to Passing Substance Screening:  This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening.  An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years

 

About Everything Else

Starting Pay Rate: $18.21/hr (Step 1)
Potential higher pay (steps) for those with multiple years of experience

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).

If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents. You will need to present the following items on your first day:

1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents

• If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. (Your Florida Driver’s License can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List B Documents.)  

2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)  

Benefits:

• Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! Choose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!
• For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net for additional information.
• Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms at multiple Sarasota County Government locations. 
• Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)​​

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