Parks Maintenance Manager

The City of Renton’s Parks and Recreation department is recruiting for an experienced Parks Maintenance Manager dedicated to enhancing quality of life through exceptional stewardship of Renton’s parks, trails, natural areas, and public spaces. The Parks Maintenance Manager provides leadership for a diverse maintenance division responsible for preserving, improving, and sustainably managing community assets that serve residents every day.

This position offers the opportunity to shape service delivery standards, lead continuous improvement efforts, develop employees and future leaders, oversee significant operating and capital resources, and collaborate across departments and with community partners to support a growing and evolving city. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership in asset management, environmental stewardship, workforce development, safety and risk management, and capital project coordination while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, inclusion, and exceptional public service.

Minimum Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & LICENSE REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 5 years of increasingly responsible experience maintaining landscaped areas, spraying chemical applications, designing, maintaining and repairing irrigation systems, bidding, contracting and project management.
• 2 years supervisory experience.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Knowledge of irrigation systems design, turf diseases, turf maintenance, and horticulture.
• First Aid/CPR/AED Certification.
• Successful passing of a required background and driver’s license check.

NOTE: We have adopted an anonymous application process that prevents hiring managers from seeing personal identifiers during the initial application review, such as candidates’ names, contact information, etc. For that reason, you will not have the ability to attach any documents to your application, including a cover letter or resume. You must thoroughly complete the applications’ education and work experience section in chronological order. You must also provide a thorough response to each of the Supplemental Questions. Please make sure to submit a complete, detailed, and updated job application as described above without any personal identifiers included. Failure to do so may result in elimination from further consideration.

• Manage the assigned maintenance programs, facilities, and service areas, ensuring consistent service delivery across the parks and trails system.
• Ensure effective delivery of operations through oversight of supervisors and performance outcomes.
• Develop and oversee division-wide risk management, safety compliance, and regulatory programs.
• Develop and approve procurement strategies, equipment standards, and capital purchases in accordance with City policies.
• Develop a preventive maintenance program for equipment, control inventory and distribution of equipment, materials, tools and chemicals.
• Interpret and explain policies and regulations; remain current regarding applicable laws, codes, rules and procedures.

• Prepare and manage requests for proposals and contracts for large park maintenance projects, oversee the Quality Assurance program, and inspect work in progress and completed work to ensure compliance with specifications and applicable laws, codes and regulations.
• Prepare and maintain records and prepare reports of accomplished work and in progress, materials purchased and used, cost estimates, hazardous materials and safety records, and priorities of parks projects; review and approve receipts for purchased for merchandise; prepare and monitor assigned budgets.
• Ensure training programs, resources, and professional development opportunities are in place and consistently applied across workgroups.

• Oversee and monitor water conservation efforts implemented by the Parks Maintenance team.
• Establish standards and approve major systems designs for irrigation system installation, replacement, repair, and servicing.
• Lead division-wide safety meetings.
• Coordinate with the Fleet Manager on the Fleet operations, maintenance, and replacement program.
• Provide opportunities for professional development to staff.
• Evaluate employee performance; conduct consistent staff and 1:1 check in meetings with direct reports.
• Delegate, review and ensure timely completion of duties of assigned staff.
• Assist in the development and implementation of department goals that support the City’s Mission and Business Plan.
• Train staff; set specific and measurable standards and goals.
• Evaluate parks maintenance operations to improve service, productivity, and efficiency, and resolve work-related complaints and issues that cannot be addressed by staff.
• Ensure assigned staff regularly evaluate and recognize staff.
• Initiate hiring process and coordinate the onboarding and training of new employees.

• Maintain regular, reliable, and punctual attendance.

Please see Class Specifications | Parks Maintenance Manager | Class Spec Details for the full job description.

• Drive to offsite locations to perform essential functions.
• Move throughout City facilities and buildings.
• Operate a computer and other office equipment.
• Communicate with City employees and residents.
• Lift or move items weighing up to 50 pounds occasionally.

• Work is performed in a typical office environment and outdoors in all weather conditions.
• Noise level out in the field is moderately loud.
• Noise level indoors is moderately quiet.
• Work evening and/or weekend hours as required.
• Night meetings may be required.

Selection Procedure

Please consider visiting the City of Renton’s Career Center for more information about our hiring process, benefits and other useful information. The City of Renton embraces a diverse and inclusive workforce and prides itself on promoting collaboration and teamwork in a positive environment while providing high-quality services to the community. For more information about the City of Renton, please visit the following website: Why Renton

The City has adopted an anonymous application process that prevents hiring managers from seeing personal identifiers, including candidates’ names, addresses, and other similar information. This eliminates the possibility of unintentional or implicit bias during the screening of applications. For that reason, you will not have the ability to attach any documents to your application, including a cover letter or resume. Please make sure to submit a complete, detailed, and updated job application.

Accommodation: Individuals needing accommodation in the application, testing, or interview process may contact [email protected] at least 2 business days prior to the need.

Communication from the City of Renton:
We primarily communicate via e-mail during the application process. E-mails from rentonwa.gov and/or governmentjobs.com should be placed on your safe domain list to ensure you receive notifications in a timely manner. As a precaution, you may also want to check your junk e-mail folders. We also communicate via text and encourage you to sign up for text alerts when completing your job application.

Recruitment Process:
The screening process will include a review of minimum qualifications and applicants selected for an interview will be invited via email to self-schedule a time through the Government Jobs account. At minimum, this position will be subject to a standard criminal background check and professional reference check. This position requires driving and is also subject to a driving record check from the WA State Dept of Licensing (or other state equivalent). Driving records will be evaluated based on a points system depending on the infraction and severity.

This position is Non-Represented and the applicable benefits are as follows:

• Employees are offered a choice of medical/vision coverage through either Kaiser Permanente or the City’s self-insured plan. Preferred Provider Option is available through the self-insured plan. Rates for both plans are available on the Benefit webpage. Please click on the link at the bottom of the page for details.
• The dental insurance plan covers services such as regular checkups, x-rays, fillings and crowns. Orthodontia coverage is also provided.

• The City contributes 4% of the employee’s base wage rate into a deferred compensation retirement plan.
• Employees may also set aside a percentage of their earnings on a tax-deferred basis.

Retirement Plan

• Employees are enrolled in the State of Washington Department of Retirement Systems Plan (PERS).
• Both the employee and employer contribute to the plan.

• A group term life insurance policy is provided to each employee at a value equivalent to the annual salary, up to $50,000.
• Each eligible dependent is also provided with a $1,000 policy. There is no cost to the employee.
• Optional supplemental insurance is available for employees and their dependents at group rates.

• Many employees are provided with a long term disability policy up to the equivalent of 60% of their salary.

• The City offers employees the opportunity to open two separate tax-free accounts through salary reduction. One account is to pay for expenses not covered by health insurance and the other account is for child care costs.

• Employees accrue vacation beginning with the first day of employment as follows: 12 days per year (0-5 years); 18 days per year (6-10 years); 21 days per year (11-15 years); 24 days per year (16-20 years); and 27 days per year (21+ years).

• Upon employment, the employee receives a sick leave bank of 24 hours, with an additional 24 hours awarded after three months.
• Thereafter, sick leave accrues at the rate of four hours each pay period.

• A confidential counseling assessment and referral service is available without cost to employees and family members for help with personal, family or job-related problems.

• The City of Renton pays employees on the tenth and the twenty-fifth of each month (24 pay periods each year).

• The City recognizes eleven holidays and offers two "personal" holidays each calendar year for most employees.

• Flexible work schedules are available in many departments.

• Unlimited free rides on various bus systems as well as various carpool and rideshare options are available for City employees.

Management Leave

• All non-represented employees that are non-overtime eligible shall be given a management leave bank of non-accruable leave in the following amounts: 56 hours for Administrators, Deputy Administrators, Directors, and the City Clerk; 40 hours for Managers, Analysts, and Others
• Non-accruable management leave is to be used within the calendar year that it is credited to employee’s leave bank.
• Management leave may not be "rolled over" from one year to the next.