Grounds Maintenance Worker I, Preparing Los Angeles

1 week ago


Los Angeles County CA, United States Los Angeles County Department of Human Resources Full time

**EXAM NUMBER**
R0352E-R
- **APPLICATION FILING PERIOD**

**This exam will reopen as the needs of the service require.**

**TYPE OF RECRUITMENT**
Open Competitive Job Opportunities

**JOB TYPE**:

- Permanent and Temporary (As Needed)**DEFINITION**:
Performs routine and simple maintenance of park, beach, and public grounds and related custodial work.
- **CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS**:
Positions allocable to this class work under the technical supervision of a Grounds Maintenance Worker II, or Senior Grounds Maintenance Worker, and are responsible for such tasks as lawn mowing, weeding, fertilizing, sweeping, replanting, and renovating. Incumbents also may perform related custodial work such as sweeping, mopping and waxing floors, washing windows and cleaning restrooms of structure associated with parks, beaches or other public facilities. Incumbents must possess the skills necessary to operate powered and manual operated grounds maintenance equipment.

**Essential Job Functions**:

- Cultivates, fertilizes, trims, and cleans planted areas adjacent to public buildings, golf courses, parks, and beaches using such tools as weed whips, backpack type blowers, and hedge trimmers.
- Mows, edges, and sweeps park and public building lawns using rider mowers and other gasoline and manually powered equipment.
- Pots, plants, transplants, fertilizes, sprays, prunes, and waters flowers, shrubs, and trees.
- Sweeps, mops, and waxes floors, washes windows, empties waste baskets, removes wall writing and cleans restrooms of structures associated with parks, beaches, or other public facilities.
- Sharpens, cleans, paints, and cares for powered and hand operated tools and equipment.
- Prepares grounds for athletic events by performing activities such as watering and dragging baseball diamonds.
- Patches golf course greens, moves tees, cleans sand traps, and cares for sod patches.
- Sets up and dismantles tables and chairs at various public facilities, as needed.
- Assists in demonstrating work tasks to Grounds Maintenance Helper program participants, as needed.
- Drives automobile equipment to and from work sites, as needed.

**Requirements**:
**SELECTION REQUIREMENTS**:
A certificate in Grounds Maintenance Worker Preparation Program certified by the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) Preparing Los Angeles for County Employment (PLACE) program within the last 12 months.
- To receive credit for the certificate, applicants must upload a copy of their DEO PLACE certificate at the time of filing.

**LICENSE**:
A valid California Class C Driver License is required.
Note: Successful applicants for positions that require driving must obtain and present a copy of his/her driving record from the California State Department of Motor Vehicles before final appointment. Applicants should not present a copy of their driving history until asked to do so by the hiring department. The County will make an individualized assessment of whether an applicant's driving history has a direct or adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job. License must not be currently suspended, restricted, or revoked.

**PHYSICAL EXPECTATIONS**:
Physical Class III - Moderate. This class requires that the incumbent stand or walk most of the time with bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, reaching, working on irregular surfaces, occasional lifting of objects weighing over 25 pounds, and frequent lifting of 10-25 pounds.

**Additional Information**:
**APPLICATION AND FILING INFORMATION**:
**EXAMINATION CONTENT**:
Once we have determined that you meet the requirements, we will invite you to take this examination which will consist of multiple choice and/or simulation assessment(s) weighted 100% covering**:Safety Orientation, Achievement, Teamwork, Responsibility, Mechanical Comprehension, and Following Instructions**.

**MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND/OR SIMULATION ASSESSMENTS** ARE NOT REVIEWABLE BY CANDIDATES PER CIVIL SERVICE RULE 7.19.**

**Test scores cannot be given over the telephone**

County of Los Angeles will not consider claims of not viewing or receiving notification to be a valid reason for late test administration or rescheduling of a test component.

**TRANSFER OF TEST COMPONENTS**
- Applicants who have taken identical components recently for other exams may have their responses automatically transferred to this examination.
- This examination contains test components that may be used in the future for new examinations and your test responses may be transferred.

**TESTING ACCOMMODATION**

**SPECIAL INFORMATION**

**TEST PREPARATION**

**ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION**:
**VACANCY INFORMATION**:
The resulting eligible list will be used to fill temporary (as needed) and permanent vacancies in the Department of Beaches and Harbors, but may be used to fill additional vacancies in other Los Angeles County departments.
**PASSING THIS EXAMINATION AND BEING PLACED ON THE ELIGIBLE LIST DOES NOT GUARANTEE AN OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT.**

**AVAILABLE SHIFT**:
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