Love animals? Temp Grounds Laborer- Woodland Park Zoo

5500 Phinney Ave North, Seattle WA

Description

APPLY HERE: www.zoo.org/jobs Love animals? Want to make a positive impact on the planet? Come join Woodland Park Zoo as a Grounds Laborer. This position performs routine janitorial and custodial work in assigned areas as well as routine manual work in a variety of indoor and outdoor work areas. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following: • Provide manual assistance to other workers and use various types of hand and small power tools such as: hammer, saw, axe, drill, backpack blowers, and shovels. • Provide minor adjustments, basic maintenance, and repairs to various types of hand and small power equipment. • Assist with setting out flares, traffic control devices, and provide work site protection, as directed. • Assist with manually dig trenches, fence post holes, and other holes using hand tools. • Load and unload materials, equipment, and supplies. • Drive pickup trucks, sedans, and other small motorized vehicles in connection with manual work activities. • Work with heavy duty equipment such as pressure washers, floor machines, carpet cleaners, etc. • Assist in set-ups, room arrangements, and office relocations as such as in the set-up and removal of chairs, risers, portable turnstiles, and flooring. • Pick up trash, sweep floors, dust, wash, disinfect, vacuum, and perform other tasks to keep areas clean. Clean, wax and polish floors. Operate handheld scrubbers and polishers. • Perform routine custodial work on a comfort station route without a lead worker. • Clean restrooms, facilities, and offices in assigned building and building areas. • Gather and dispose of trash and wastes; replenish restroom supplies, wash walls and windows, dust furniture, and polish metal work. Remove trash around buildings. • Clean lighting fixtures, windows, windowsills, screens, tops of windows, doorframes, and other high areas. • Sweep outside areas and sidewalks. • Perform indoor and/or outdoor litter control and cleaning tasks. • Assist in the installation, repair, and maintenance of chain link fences, backstops, benches, signs, and bleachers. • Perform other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS • High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one (1) or more months related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. • A valid Washington Driver’s License. • Basic computer skills and ability to access email and submit online timesheets. • Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. • Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standard situations. • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent. • Ability to work independently and as part of a team. • Ability to work a flexible schedule, which may include evenings, weekends and/or holidays. • Commitment to the mission of the zoo and the institution’s core values. APPLY HERE: www.zoo.org/jobs