Seasonal Irrigation Tech at Highlands Ranch Metro and Centennial Water & Sanitation Districts – Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Spend your summer outdoors with Highlands Ranch Metro District as a Seasonal Irrigation Tech, maintaining the irrigation systems that keep our parkways lush and healthy. You’ll learn hands‑on skills while helping to conserve water and keep our community green the smart way.

Grow your career, gain experience, have fun, and enjoy the outdoors!
Apply now and join a team that takes pride in what they do while keeping Highlands Ranch looking and feeling its best.

Works under the direct supervision of the Parkways Supervisor and other Technicians.

This is a 40 hour per week seasonal position generally working between 6:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Work schedules will vary depending on weather conditions, projects, events, programs, meetings, and staffing levels, and will include some evening, early morning, weekend, and overtime hours. Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.

Lawn and landscape equipment including pickup truck with automatic transmission, trailers, tractors, mowers, aerators, edgers, weed trimmers, seeders, sprayers, spreaders, utility vehicles, blowers, high pressure washer, pruning tools, miscellaneous hand and power tools for turf maintenance, carpentry, and painting. Cell phones, computers, and general office equipment.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls. The employee is frequently required to sit, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and smell.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather conditions and near moving mechanical parts. The employee frequently is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Formal application, rating of education and experience, interview, and reference check.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Applications will be accepted for at least two weeks or until the position is filled.

Pre-employment screening includes background check and motor vehicle record check.

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