Crew Leader

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Crew Leader - Park Services Manager to join our team at the Town of Flower Mound, TX. As a key member of our Parks and Recreation Services department, you will be responsible for leading a maintenance crew in the daily park tasks of maintaining and beautifying the parks, street medians, rights-of-way, and other Town property.

• Oversee the day-to-day work activities of laborers within the Parks Services Division, including training, assigning work tasks, and monitoring and inspecting the work of laborers.
• Assist in executing personnel/employee related tasks, including hiring, training, setting worker goals and objectives, scheduling work crews, evaluating, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Perform continual inspections of operational and personnel functions and activities to identify any inefficiencies and ineffectiveness and make recommendations for corrective measures.
• Train workers in the safe and proper operation of equipment and tools and performing job tasks and ensure workers wear appropriate safety equipment.
• Ensure employees conduct daily vehicle inspections and preventative maintenance of all equipment and vehicles.
• Identify and report hazards and liability exposures and take immediate action for corrective measures.
• Make special reports and recommendations to the supervisor as needed.
• Recommend items, supplies, tools, equipment, and other material needed for park operations.
• Assist in determining purchasing needs for upcoming projects and secure price quotes for purchase of equipment, supplies, materials, etc.
• Inform supervisor of potential hazards, problem areas, public inquiries, and the status of other work activities.
• Perform the duties of Maintenance Workers, as required, including operating commercial landscape and turf care equipment, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, selecting and shaping, pruning, watering, mulching, and removing trees, shrubs, flowers, etc.

• High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) required.
• Must be able to obtain a valid Texas Class "A" or "B" Commercial Driver's License, with proper endorsements and without restrictions, within six (6) months from the date of hire.
• Two (2) years of related commercial landscape, turf care, irrigation systems, and equipment operation and maintenance experience and one year of supervisory or leading a work crew experience required.

• Good working knowledge of proper turf, landscape, and irrigation procedures, light to heavy landscape and related equipment, and safety procedures.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, make competent decisions, handle multiple projects, prioritize and organize work assignments, meet deadlines, and work well under pressure and stress.
• Good leadership, organizational, supervisory, problem-solving, and training skills.
• Ability to follow oral and written directives and maintain an effective and pleasant working relationship with employees, contractors, and the general public.

• Ability to perform strenuous physical activities, including exerting up to 100 lbs. of pressure, lifting, pushing, pulling, and carrying heavy objects, shoveling, crawling, bending, kneeling, digging holes, climbing on and off equipment, operating vibrating equipment, and working in adverse environmental conditions.