Mark Simmons

Department of Environmental Services:

• Supervise and lead crews in daily task/projects.
• Maintain city owned property, street sweeping, salting and snow removal. Lawn cutting. Debris removal.

Heavy equipment: Front end loader, sweeper, roll-off trash dumpster.

• Established a culture of safety within the workplace by promoting adherence to established protocols and conducting regular training sessions.
• Conducted regular quality control checks to maintain high product standards and minimize defects or errors.

• Performed routine maintenance tasks like pruning branches or removing dead wood from trees reducing potential hazards within the managed area.
• Trained new hires on proper use of equipment, safety protocols, and job responsibilities to ensure smooth onboarding experiences.
• Checked fluids and lubricants on chippers, trucks and chainsaws, keeping tools operational.
• Handled bucking of trees and removed cut-down limbs.
• Chopped down trees affected by storms or showing signs of disease.
• Fed brush and branches into brush chipper, consolidating limbs.
• Worked closely with other loggers to drag timber to loading deck.

Maintain Parks grounds and Recreation Apparatus:

• Mow and trim grass w/large mowing equipment, string strimmer.
• Plant trees, shrubs and flowers, mulch, trim hedges and shrubs.
• Apply herbicides and fertilizer and water to weeds, flowers.
• Snow removal w/ plow truck, tractor, snow blower of parking lots and sidewalks.
• install and repair athletic fields, w/markings. Baseball, softball, regulation football and flag.
• Install indoor and outdoor ice skating rinks.
• 18 yrs experience zamboni (ice resurface) operator and trainer.
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• Provide daily work schedules for crew members.
• Maintained safety by implementing effective procedures regarding hazardous actions, materials, and items.
• Train crew on operation of equipment used in daily work operations.