Rights of Way Supervisor

Parks Maintenance ROW Supervisor The purpose of this position is to perform semi-skilled and skilled tasks to supervise the repair and maintenance of parks, grounds, right of ways, facilities, or other areas. Essential job functions include supervising, directing, and evaluating assigned staff; ensuring compliance with all applicable codes, laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies and procedures; sorting and prioritizing work orders; overseeing and performing a variety of landscaping and maintenance duties; receiving and responding to questions, requests and/or complaints from City residents, customers and the general public; assisting with special projects and seasonal work; operating a City vehicle; making budget recommendations for Parks Division; maintaining inventories of supplies, forms, and equipment; consulting with assigned staff; preparing or completing various forms, reports, schedules, performance evaluations, work orders, purchase requisitions, logs, accident reports, or other documents; operating a variety of varied purpose equipment and tools in landscaping and maintenance; operating a personal computer, and a variety of machinery, equipment, and tools, to complete essential functions. Additional functions include performing other related duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience: Requires a high school diploma or equivalent; seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in public works maintenance, landscaping, parks maintenance or a closely related field. Licenses or Certifications: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license. Arborist certification strongly preferred. Special Requirements: None. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of landscaping. Knowledge of beach and dune maintenance. Knowledge of applicable codes, laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies and procedures; including safety procedures. Knowledge of customer service principles. Skill in gathering information before taking action. Skill in finding common ground and gaining cooperation. Skill in performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculating decimals, percentages, and fractions; and interpreting graphs. Skill in communicating, both verbally and in writing. Ability to pay attention to details. Ability to build rapport. Ability to listen. Ability to build a team. Ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Ability to perform in a supervisory capacity over assigned supervisors. Ability to operate and control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools and/or materials requiring complex and/or rapid adjustments. Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information. Ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership. Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria. Physical demands include frequently applying 30 pounds of force to move objects, occasionally exerting up to 50 pounds of force to move objects, balancing, climbing, crawling, crouching, feeling, grasping, handling, hearing voices and distinguishing among sounds, kneeling, lifting, manual dexterity, mental acuity, pulling, pushing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, standing, stooping, expressing ideas by the spoken word and shouting to be heard above ambient noise, visual acuity in data/color/observations/operating equipment/inspect defects or measurements, and walking. Work environment includes exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, bright/dim lights, toxic agents, animal/wildlife attacks, animal bites, or rude/irate customers. Work is performed in an environment with heavy equipment and machinery that could result in bodily harm to co-workers or others.