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Job Description
Job Summary
Join our team as an Equipment Operator and play a pivotal role in maintaining the beauty and functionality of our city's cemetery and grounds. Operating a variety of equipment, you'll ensure the upkeep of the cemetery while performing essential tasks such as preventative maintenance. Other duties include interacting with fellow City employees and citizens. Apply today with The City of Grand Prairie!
Essential Job Functions
This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.
This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 100 pounds on occasion.- Loads materials by running equipment such as track loader, backhoe, front loader, tractor, and vehicles.
- Maintains grounds throughout the Cemetery including but not limited to digging graves and placing markers.
- Assist with projects or special events to include inspecting grounds for hazards, installing decorations and completing post-event clean up.
- Performs work by removing limbs and other debris from roadways, placing signs and barricades in the appropriate location, cutting down trees and removing debris from grounds.
- Performs preventative maintenance by inspecting and performing required maintenance and repairs on all equipment used.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: High School Diploma or GED.
- Experience: One (1) year of experience in cemetery grounds or similar work typically outdoors including use of tools and/or machinery, construction or warehouse using forklifts.
- Licenses: Valid Driver's License required.
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 12/6/2024 5:00 PM Central - Loads materials by running equipment such as track loader, backhoe, front loader, tractor, and vehicles.
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Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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