Parks Maintenance Superintendent in Daviess County, Kentucky at Daviess County Fiscal Court

Job Title: Parks Maintenance Superintendent

Classification: Non-Exempt

Salary Grade: M2

Reports to: Public Safety Director

Date: July 2026

Summary/Objective: Directs, coordinates, and performs construction and maintenance of all buildings, grounds, and equipment for all park facilities.

Essential Functions:

· Responsible for Parks buildings and grounds maintenance and construction

· Makes site visits to all county parks, as needed, to ensure that they are clean, maintained, safe, and ready for public use

· Primary contact for ball field usage

· Primary contact for soccer field usage at Horse Fork Creek Park

· Primary contact for large-scale parks events for preparation and usage

· Manage maintenance contracts

· Assists in preparing annual budget for the Parks & Recreation Department

· Coordinates with contractors and/or service delivery personnel as needed

· Manage the work schedules for full-time, seasonal, temporary and part-time employees to facilitate maintenance and events

Competency: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

· Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

· Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position directly supervises all full-time, part-time, and seasonal maintenance employees. Responsible for scheduling, coordination, and evaluation of this unit. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Davies County Fiscal Court’s policies. Responsibilities include interviewing and hiring in conjunction with the Human Resources Department, training employees, planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and discipling employees, addressing complaints, and resolving problems.

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to extreme heat. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and extreme cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands: 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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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

Required education and experience: Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six month to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional eligibility qualifications: Valid driver’s license.

Disclaimer: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Daviess County Fiscal Court is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, age, disability, marital status, sex (wages), genetics, or disabled, recently separated, other protected, and armed forces service medal veterans in its hiring or employment practices.