City of Houston
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ALL PERSONS INTERESTEDDIVISION/ SECTION:
URBAN PARK RANGERSWORKDAYS & HOURS:
VARIED HOURS Subject to change GENERAL FUNDED AND GRANT FUNDED POSITIONS DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSThe Houston Parks and Recreation Department is dedicated to building a sustainable community and enhancing the quality of urban life by providing safe well-maintained parks and offering affordable programming for our community.
To achieve this mission, HPARD is seeking an Urban Park Ranger to join its Urban Park Ranger team.
The potential candidate will play a key role in the following duties:
Monitors trails, picnic areas, pavilions, and similar park areas (via foot, bicycle, and motorized vehicle) in designated parks to promote public safety and ensure proper use of parks and facilities.
Interacts effectively with the public; greets park visitors and explains park rules, regulations and city ordinances, provides directions and handles public inquiries and complaints.
Investigates and resolves designated visitor complaints to provide quality customer assistance.
Performs basic inspections of mobile vendors to ensure compliance with City health ordinances and park rules and regulations.
Conducts investigations and may issue citations regarding animal violations and illegal trash dumping.
Conducts investigations on any relevant event occurring on Department property.
Completes appropriate reports, such as vehicle accidents, building burglaries and or employee/visitor injuries, criminal activity, city animal ordinance violations, illegal trash dumping, parking violations, and permit disputes.
Controls activity levels within assigned parks by unlocking and securing gates, checking park use and permits.
Provides crowd control and parking control at City sponsored events and notifies the public of park operating hours.
Provides and conducts informative presentations on bicycle safety, child safety, gang/drug awareness, environmental preservation, and other topics.
Uses radio communication equipment to relay all important information to dispatch and to request assistance from HPD, HFD, or other agencies as required.
Attends meetings, training sessions, and conferences.
Performs other duties as assigned.
WORKING CONDITIONS This position occasionally requires lifting of moderately heavy items up to 40 pounds; such as boxes, setting up barricades, traffic cones.
This position also occasionally requires, very long periods of walking, standing and/or riding bicycles on rough surfaces.
There are routine exposures to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to chemical substances, and physical trauma of a minor nature (cuts, bruises, potential dangers, minor burns, hazards and unsafe conditions).
This position requires the ability to make coordinated gross motor movements in response to changing external stimuli within moderately demanding tolerances, or the ability to make coordinated eye/ hand movements on a patterned response space within low tolerance demands with no real speed requirements.
Must be able to monitor parks areas via foot, bicycle and motorized vehicle.
Job Type:
Full TimeLocation:
Various, TexasAgency:
Parks and RecreationAbout the Company:
City of Houston.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
ALL PERSONS INTERESTEDDIVISION/ SECTION:
URBAN PARK RANGERSWORKDAYS & HOURS:
VARIED HOURS Subject to change GENERAL FUNDED AND GRANT FUNDED POSITIONS DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSThe Houston Parks and Recreation Department is dedicated to building a sustainable community and enhancing the quality of urban life by providing safe well-maintained parks and offering affordable programming for our community.
To achieve this mission, HPARD is seeking an Urban Park Ranger to join its Urban Park Ranger team.
The potential candidate will play a key role in the following duties:
Monitors trails, picnic areas, pavilions, and similar park areas (via foot, bicycle, and motorized vehicle) in designated parks to promote public safety and ensure proper use of parks and facilities.
Interacts effectively with the public; greets park visitors and explains park rules, regulations and city ordinances, provides directions and handles public inquiries and complaints.
Investigates and resolves designated visitor complaints to provide quality customer assistance.
Performs basic inspections of mobile vendors to ensure compliance with City health ordinances and park rules and regulations.
Conducts investigations and may issue citations regarding animal violations and illegal trash dumping.
Conducts investigations on any relevant event occurring on Department property.
Completes appropriate reports, such as vehicle accidents, building burglaries and or employee/visitor injuries, criminal activity, city animal ordinance violations, illegal trash dumping, parking violations, and permit disputes.
Controls activity levels within assigned parks by unlocking and securing gates, checking park use and permits.
Provides crowd control and parking control at City sponsored events and notifies the public of park operating hours.
Provides and conducts informative presentations on bicycle safety, child safety, gang/drug awareness, environmental preservation, and other topics.
Uses radio communication equipment to relay all important information to dispatch and to request assistance from HPD, HFD, or other agencies as required.
Attends meetings, training sessions, and conferences.
Performs other duties as assigned.
WORKING CONDITIONS This position occasionally requires lifting of moderately heavy items up to 40 pounds; such as boxes, setting up barricades, traffic cones.
This position also occasionally requires, very long periods of walking, standing and/or riding bicycles on rough surfaces.
There are routine exposures to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to chemical substances, and physical trauma of a minor nature (cuts, bruises, potential dangers, minor burns, hazards and unsafe conditions).
This position requires the ability to make coordinated gross motor movements in response to changing external stimuli within moderately demanding tolerances, or the ability to make coordinated eye/ hand movements on a patterned response space within low tolerance demands with no real speed requirements.
Must be able to monitor parks areas via foot, bicycle and motorized vehicle.
Job Type:
Full TimeLocation:
Various, TexasAgency:
Parks and RecreationAbout the Company:
City of Houston.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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