Building & Grounds Superintendent

Performs difficult skilled technical and administrative work planning, coordinating, supervising, and participating in the construction, maintenance, and repair of parks and recreation facilities, equipment, buildings, grounds, and cemetery, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the limited supervision of the Director of Parks & Recreation. Divisional supervision is exercised over all personnel within the division.

• Supervises work crews in the repair and maintenance of City parks and recreational facilities, grounds, and buildings and other City facilities including the cemetery; maintains the turf management program; schedules and ensures that work is accomplished according to departmental and safety standards and that facilities are free of public hazards.
• Participates and oversees inspection of departmental equipment, vehicles, and buildings.
• Develops and coordinates with department Director in long range planning for parks and recreation and other facility preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Recruits and selects division personnel; assigns, directs, trains and inspects the work of staff; motivates, coaches, counsels, and evaluates staff performance; participates in disciplinary action.
• Creates and maintains management and operational manuals related to tasks performed by the division.
• Participates and oversees in division budget development and administration, including preparing equipment specifications; orders materials and equipment.
• Assists in managing various contracts related to construction projects for quality and adherence to specifications and budget; updates and maintains OSHA and EPA rules and regulations.
• Participates in troubleshooting and problem solving of various tools and equipment.
• Confers with Recreation Program Superintendent and Golf Course Manager in coordinating and implementing short and long-term facility repairs and improvements. 
• Instructs employees in proper work procedures, hazards, and safety precautions; provides feedback and quality assurance.
• Prepares required and requested reports; maintains detailed and proper records on equipment, tools, and work activities.

Associates degree or Bachelors degree and considerable experience in building and grounds maintenance and construction, turf management, ballfield and golf course maintenance, and landscaping including supervisory experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Obtain Pool Operator certification within six months of hire. Obtain Playground Safety Inspector certification within one year of hire. Valid commercial driver's license in the State of North Carolina.

Considerable knowledge of the methods, tools, and equipment utilized in parks and recreation maintenance; considerable knowledge of the work hazards and applicable safety standards associated with the work; considerable knowledge of budgeting, purchasing, and personnel procedures; considerable knowledge of landscape architecture and turf management practices; considerable knowledge of the hazards and related liabilities and remediation strategies related to parks and recreation and other buildings and facilities; some knowledge of construction practices; some knowledge of parks planning; skill in the operation of assigned equipment and tools; skill in the use of personal computers, associated software packages, hardware, and peripheral equipment; ability to plan and supervise the work of subordinates; ability to prepare reports and maintain records; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other associates, patrons, sales representatives, vendors, and the general public. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, frequently requires standing, walking, sitting, reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions and occasionally requires using hands to finger, handle or feel, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and tasting or smelling; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work frequently requires working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to extreme cold (non-weather), exposure to the risk of electrical shock and exposure to vibration and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working in high, precarious places, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a loud noise location (e.g. grounds maintenance, heavy traffic).