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Position Summary:
The Parking Attendant supports daily parking operations by monitoring parking areas, enforcing regulations, and assisting customers. This role helps maintain safe, organized, and accessible parking across campus. The attendant provides directions, answers questions, and assists during events and busy periods, contributing to an efficient and customer-focused parking experience.
Ideal Candidate Statement:
The ideal candidate is reliable, customer-focused, and attentive to detail, with a strong commitment to maintaining safe and organized parking operations. They communicate courteously with a wide range of customers and actively seek to assist others, providing clear directions and support in a professional manner. This individual is dependable and follows instructions closely while remaining adaptable in a fast-paced environment. They are comfortable working outdoors, monitoring parking activity, and responding to issues as they arise, including basic troubleshooting or reporting maintenance needs. The ideal candidate takes pride in keeping spaces clean and orderly, demonstrates sound judgment when enforcing parking guidelines, and is willing to support team operations-including assisting during events or helping guide other attendants when needed. Familiarity with parking equipment is a plus, but not required.
Workplace Requirements:
This role is classified as an essential position, requiring on-site presence to effectively carry out its vital functions.
Hourly Hiring Salary: $18.00
Minimum Requirements:
No formal education required
6 months of related experience (i.e., customer service, working at a university, parking, transportation, light maintenance, etc.)
In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year for year basis may be substituted
Valid Texas Drivers License (or ability to obtain within 30 days of employment) required with no more than 3 moving violations within the past 36 months and no citations for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) or Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
Skills:
Must be able to speak and understand basic English
Good interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team
Speaks to others in a courteous manner
Actively looks for ways to help people
Follows instructions
Knowledge of parking equipment
Essential Functions:
Keeps parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized
Directs motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary
Patrols parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property theft
Calculates parking charges when equipment is not working and collects fees from customers
Lifts, positions, and removes barricades to open or close parking areas
Provides direction and assistance to visitors as needed
May, at times, be asked to lead other attendants, students, and/or event staff
Performs all other duties as assigned
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