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The City of Redwood City Invites Applications for:
Parks Manager
(Parks, Recreation & Community Services Manager)
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication.
The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.
The Parks Manager is responsible for the Landscape Maintenance at City owned facilities, 38 parks totaling 189.3 acres and landscaped roadway medians. Redwood City has 2.29 acres per thousand residents of city owned parkland. Park amenities include 10 synthetic turf fields, spray grounds, and the all-inclusive Magical Bridge Playground. The position will oversee a supervisor, 4 landscape teams and a special crafts team.
This is a particularly exciting time to join as the City is developing a number of large parks over the next 5 years. These additions or renovations will bring much needed amenities to various areas of the City. The Parks Manager will be assisting in bringing these park online through plan review, construction progress review and quality control. Park renovations or new parks in process are the Hoover Park project, Downtown Library Park and Bayfront Park. The Department is also finishing an Organizational Assessment that will develop a roadmap for Department staffing over the next 5 years.
Please review the detailed job description for Parks, Recreation & Community Services Manager here, which includes more information on the duties and essential knowledge, skills and abilities for this position.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is looking for a new challenge and enjoys working cross-functionally to solve problems. They have a strong understanding of landscape maintenance practices and can identify and resolve issues quickly. They have a positive attitude and take pride in delivering quality services to the community. Experience with irrigation controller systems like Laguna, Eagle Plus and Weathertrak are preferred but not required. We encourage all interested individuals who meet the qualifications to apply.
What you’ll do, at a glance:
- Collaborate with landscape teams to identify areas for improvement maintenance areas
- Collaborate with other departments to develop or review landscape maintenance projects
- Manage irrigation controllers and water budget for all areas, coordinating with staff at all levels on changes.
- Create work orders for areas maintained by Public Works or other City staff
- Prepare clear and concise written reports and technical documentation.
- Document processes, procedures, and solutions.
- Create plans and schedules for work areas
- Coordinate support for other City or Department activities
- Research new equipment and repair vendors for specialized equipment
- Create and manage training program cycle for employees
- Hire seasonal employees
Benefits
Click on job announcement pdf file for listing of position benefits.
Special Instructions
Submit your application via: www.CalOpps.org by Tuesday, April 29, 2025 by 11:59 pm. In person oral board interviews are tentatively scheduled on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
A City application, a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to complete the application, attach a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions will disqualify the applicant from the recruitment process. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes may be attached separately, but resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.
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