Salary : $33,924.80 Annually
Location : Lubbock Cemetery Office, 2011 E. 31st Street Lubbock, TX
Job Type: Part-Time
Job Number: PT766-6611
Department: Cemetery
Division: 6611 - Cemetery
Opening Date: 06/06/2026
Closing Date: 7/3/2026 5:00 PM Central
Summary
The purpose of this position is to assist Cemetery maintenance crew with day-to-day duties of operating the City of Lubbock Cemetery.
Essential Functions
- Drive light trucks to haul supplies and materials such as dirt and caliche.
- Operate mowers and other machines of comparable size and complexity.
- Maintain and service equipment, machines and trucks.
- Assist with various other activities including mowing and edging grass, maintaining sprinkler systems, and removing litter and debris.
- Assist in the preparation for funerals.
Qualifications
Completion of the tenth grade with an additional six months to one year of experience in operation and maintenance of light motorized equipment; or any combination of relevant education and experience which provides the following
Physical Exam Required
Driver's License preferred but not required
Knowledge and Abilities
Knowledge and Abilities
Knowledge of:
- The tools, equipment, materials, and methods used in park maintenance.
- The methods involved in routine plumbing, carpentry, and concrete construction work.
- The methods involved in watering and maintaining turf areas.
- Methods of basic skills pertaining to operations of mowing, weed eater operations.
- Methods of basic skills working with irrigation, replacing sprinklers and related irrigation components.
Ability to:
- Read, write, and comprehend daily instructions.
- Perform basic plumbing, carpentry, painting, and gardening tasks.
- Operate heavy equipment skillfully and safely.
- Perform maintenance and service work on trucks and heavy equipment.
- Make field repairs.
- Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
Physical Requirements:
- Continuously stand and walk during the shift.
- Occasionally climb ladders, stairs, poles, scaffolding, and other inclined surfaces.
- Frequently bend and kneel.
- Continuously lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
- Frequently lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
- Occasionally lift and carry up to 100 pounds.
- Occasionally push and pull objects.
- Occasionally flex upper trunk forward at the waist and partially at the knees.
- Occasionally rotate upper trunk to the right or left while sitting or standing.
- Frequently reach above, at, or below shoulder height.
- Coordinate eye, hand and foot movement in order to operate a vehicle.
Part-time employees who have at least six (6) months continuous employment may be paid for all holidays except the Veterans Day floating holiday. Part-time employees are not eligible for the Veteran's Day floating holiday because City offices are not closed on that day. The number of hours granted these employees as holiday pay is based on the average number of hours normally worked in a day.
The City designates the eleven (11) following dates as holidays to be observed with pay:
New Year's Day - January 1
Martin Luther King Day - Third Monday in January
Good Friday - Friday before Easter
Memorial Day - Last Monday in May
Independence Day - July 4
Labor Day - First Monday of September
Veterans Day - November 11 (Floating Holiday)
Thanksgiving Day - Fourth Thursday in November
Friday after Thanksgiving (Fourth Friday in November)
Christmas Eve - December 24
Christmas Day - December 25