Park Laborer

Ready to kick-start your career outdoors? Join the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community as a Park Laborer and help keep our parks and properties looking their best! This is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience, learn new skills, and grow with the support of a team that's ready to train and mentor you. Enjoy weekly pay, career growth opportunities, and health benefits. Whatever your career goals may be, let SMSC help get you there!

Starting pay $20+ an hour.

Job Overview: Operates landscaping and construction heavy equipment; ensuring landscaping and snow removal projects are completed to provide a safe and aesthetically pleasing environment for community members and businesses.

Maximize Your Impact: The Responsibilities You'll Own:

• Operates all heavy landscaping and construction equipment for large-scale landscaping, snow removal, and operational functions. Mows, plants, fertilizes and irrigates all landscaping areas (seasonal). Maintains all community parks including the maintenance and repair of

equipment. Removes snow and ice from walks and driveways (seasonal). Assists with the pickup and removal of trash.

• Completes maintenance and repairs of asphalt on community streets as well as roadside cleanup. Maintains street signs. Performs outdoor striping of parking lots, garages, and roadways; including laying out new or re-striped areas and removing lines using equipment, as needed.
• Performs preventative maintenance inspections and ensures safety devices are in working order on heavy equipment.
• Responds to complaints of stray or dangerous animals; and assists in recovery of animals.
• Performs work for special events (e.g., Pow Wow, cultural camp, etc.) to include grounds maintenance, garbage control, pest control and vendor set up/tear down.
• Assists other departments in special projects.

Job Requirements:

• High School graduate or GED.
• Two years experience operating commercial landscaping and heavy construction equipment.
• Class A CDL Driver's License (preferred) - training provided by SMSC within 1 year of hire
• Two years experience in landscape construction and maintenance.
• Industrial Truck Driving permit may be required (forklift).
• Ability to work in a wide range of climate temperatures, including excessive heat and/or subzero temperatures.
• Proficiency in maintaining safety while handling potential fumes, chemicals, odors, and/or noise.
• Has the physical abilities to perform the required job duties with or without accommodations.
• Capacity to handle and lift up to 75 lbs. as needed.
• Ability to move in a variety of motions including bending, squatting, crawling, kneeling, twisting, pulling, and/or pushing.

Outstanding Benefits & Awesome Perks: At the SMSC, we are invested in our Team Members, as demonstrated by the competitive benefits we offer. Team Members may be eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, and a generous PTO package, which includes outreach hours for volunteer work through our #SMSCgives outreach program. Plus, take advantage of perks like discounts on childcare, fuel, bus passes and fitness membership, free uniforms and free uniform cleaning, and tuition reimbursement.

Who We Are: The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community contributes both time and financial resources across the region, state, and country. The SMSC has donated more than $400 million to organizations and causes, provided $500 million in economic development loans to other tribes, and contributed millions more to support regional governments and infrastructure. The SMSC's Native Green initiative annually diverts hundreds of tons of waste from landfills, has implemented compostable containers throughout our properties, and restored hundreds of acres of prairie land. Team members are eligible to participate in SMSC Gives, a community outreach initiative that organizes various opportunities in the local community. To empower its team members to take part in the Dakota tradition of giving, the SMSC provides paid hours to team members to volunteer at events. Learn more at shakopeedakota.org