PARKS & RECREATION: Crew Chief

PARKS & RECREATION: Crew Chief

Supervises and performs maintenance duties and tasks within the parks department. Generally responsible for the onsite management of a small work group of employees assigned to a specific task. Areas of responsibility may include landscaping, trail care/maintenance, housekeeping, and general maintenance.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Performs parks maintenance work as assigned. This duty is performed daily.
• Oversees small group of workers in their designated work group. This duty is performed daily.
• Ensures proper safety procedures are being observed by assigned work group. This duty is performed daily.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education And Experience

Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines. Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 12 to 18 months related experience and/or training, and 12 to 18 months related management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Communication Skills

Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.

Critical Thinking Skills

Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables in situations of a routine nature.

Required Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Arkansas Drivers License.
• High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• CDL preferred.
• Arkansas Herbicide Applicator License.

Software Skills Required

• Basic: Word Processing/Typing

Initiative and Ingenuity

Under general supervision where standard practice enables the employee to proceed alone on routine work, referring all questionable cases to supervisor.

Planning

Limited responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

Decision Making

Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved, but also would affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.

Mental Demand

Moderate mental demand. Operations requiring almost continuous attention, but work is sufficiently repetitive that a habit cycle is formed; operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to determine or select materials, equipment or operations where variable sequences may be selected by the employee.

Analytical Ability / Problem Solving

Directed. Supervisory and/or professional skills using structured practices or policies and directed as to execution and review. Interpolation of learned things in moderately varied situations where reasoning and decision-making are essential.

Responsibility For Work Of Others

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities may include but not limited to interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Responsibility for Funds, Property and Equipment

Ordinarily has little, if any, association with funds, supplies, equipment or other property where there would exist any appreciable opportunity for damage, misappropriation, or other monetary loss.

Accuracy

Probable errors of internal and external scope would have a moderate effect on the operational efficiency of the organizational component concerned. Errors might possibly go undetected for a considerable period of time, thereby creating an inaccurate picture of an existing situation. Could cause further errors, losses, or embarrassment to the organization. The possibility for error is always present due to requirements of the job.

Freedom to Act

Standardized. Accepted processes covered by well-defined standardized policies and procedures with supervisory review.

Annual Monetary Impact

The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities. Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.

Very small. Job creates a monetary impact for the organization up to an annual level of $100,000.

Impact on End Results

Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.

Public Contact

Frequent contacts with general public, patrons, or other outside representatives, wherein the manner of handling these contacts has a bearing on the organization's position and operation.

Employee Contact

Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course of performing duties. Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.

Use of Machines, Equipment and/or Computers

Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.)

Working Conditions

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

Environmental Conditions

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions; occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical Activities

Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear; occasionally required to sit, climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

Additional Information

Not indicated.

Job Details

Category: All Employment Job Postings

Status: Open

Salary: Beginning salary, $19.96-$21.21, DOE

Posted: September 15, 2026 9:07 AM

Closing: Open Until Filled