This position is responsible for performing trade-based work involving maintenance and repair of the City's street, water, sewer, or storm drain infrastructure. In addition, may perform leaf collection and snow and ice removal duties, including varying shift-work. Those assigned to water and sewer crews provide emergency on-call response and repairs to street, water, sewer, storm drain, and storm debris incidents. This position communicates information to a Crew Supervisor. The work contributes directly to the quality of life in the City with serious consequences on the health and well-being of its citizens and is performed under the general managerial direction of a Crew Supervisor. This work can be physically demanding at times.Functions of all Maintenance Worker-Public Worker II
- Acts as lead person on work details.
- Performs required labor involved in construction and maintenance projects as part of a crew.
- Records a variety of records relating to inspections, maintenance activity, water supply, consumption, etc.
- Operates and maintains vehicles and equipment such as, but not limited to, backhoe, frontend loader, skid loader with attachments, dump truck, leaf collection truck, and snow removal equipment.
- Ensures proper maintenance of equipment and tools by cleaning and checking equipment and tools after use.
- Drives trucks of various sizes and weights in the loading, hauling, and unloading of various equipment and materials.
- Determines the locations of gas, telephone, underground electrical, television, water, and sewer lines from the appropriate sources prior to excavation.
- Responds to complaints regarding streets, storm drains, water leaks, pressure loss, no water, and sewer stoppages; evaluates situations and explains findings to supervisor.
- May contact residents and business owners in the area where services will be affected.
- May evaluate situations and report findings to Crew Supervisor.
- Assists in the set-up of sediment control devices.
- Follows and enforces required safety practices and uses appropriate traffic safety devices such as cones, arrow boards and traffic warning signs. Also, assists in the installation of trench shoring devices, atmosphere tests, and other confined space entry equipment.
- Operates and maintains equipment such as, but not limited to, jackhammer, chipper, chain saw, and other hand tools.
- Responds to routine and after hour emergency calls, including, but not limited to, street, water, sewer, storm drain, and inclement weather events.
- Performs other duties as required.
Functions of Street Maintenance
- Operates equipment in the maintenance and repair of City roadways and sidewalks, including, but not limited to, gradall, asphalt roller, crack sealer, propatch, concrete mixer, walk behind asphalt saw, and mini excavator.
- Operates and prepares leaf collection and snow and ice removal equipment.
- Repairs, places, and finishes asphalt and concrete.
Functions of Water Maintenance
- Operates equipment in the maintenance and repair of the water system infrastructure and appurtenances, including, but not limited to, valve operator, mini excavator, and various other equipment.
- Uses various hand tools in cutting, fitting, laying, repairing, tapping, cleaning, and flushing water mains, pipes, fire hydrants, valves, and fittings on repair and installation of mains and services.
- Replaces defective water meters.
- Enters confined spaces, such as valve vaults to perform maintenance and repair tasks.
Functions of Sewer Maintenance
- Operates equipment in the maintenance and repair of the sewer infrastructure and appurtenances including wastewater lift stations, CCTV program, and SL-RAT program including, but not limited to, flusher truck, camera truck, rodder, mini excavator, and crane truck.
- Inspects and/or repairs lift/pumping stations, meters, drainage systems, and sewer system to ensure that all aspects of the systems are functioning properly.
- Rods, cleans, flushes, assesses condition, and televises sewer mains.
- Uses various hand tools in cutting, fitting, laying, repairing, tapping, cleaning, and flushing sewer mains, pipes, manholes, clean-outs, valves, and fittings on repair and installation of mains and services.
- Enters confined spaces, such as sewer manholes to perform maintenance and repair tasks.
Functions of Storm Drain Maintenance
- Operates equipment in the maintenance and repair of the storm drain infrastructure and appurtenances including, but not limited to, vacuum/flusher truck and mini excavator.
- Operates and prepares leaf collection and snow and ice removal equipment.
- Forms, pours, repairs, and finishes storm drain structures.
- Cuts, fits, lays, repairs, taps, cleans, and flushes storm drains, pipes, manholes, inlets, and fittings.
- Enters confined spaces, such as storm sewer manholes to perform cleaning, maintenance, and repair tasks.
Education and Experience: High school degree and two (2) years of progressively responsible work in labor involved in construction and maintenance projects as a part of a crew, or any substantial equivalent combination of education and experience.Special Qualifications: Must possess a valid state commercial driver's license (CDL) with required endorsements. (Maintenance Workers and Traffic Maintenance Workers (regardless of level) are required to have a CDL Class A License with the Tanker (N) endorsement).
- Knowledge of general duties, tools, equipment, operation, and practices required in the operation and maintenance of City infrastructure and appurtenances including street, water, sewer, and storm drain operations.
- Knowledge of occupational hazards, safe workplace practices, and safety precautions for the proper execution and usage of a variety of equipment and power tools.
- Ability to independently perform manual and trade-based tasks.
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
- Ability to handle and operate light and heavy hand tools and power equipment.
- Ability to determine electrical, mechanical, and plumbing malfunctions and to make minor repairs on such equipment.
- Ability to read and interpret written instructions and operation manuals.
- Ability to read and interpret maps.
- Ability and willingness to perform other duties as assigned; including, but not limited to, snow removal, storm debris clean-up, and other emergencies at times other than regularly scheduled work hours.
Physical Demands
- The work is very heavy work, which requires exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
- Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
- Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand
- Hearing 1: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Hearing 2: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Talking 1: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Talking 2: Shouting in order