STREET LABORER
Exempt: No
Classification: Non - Safety Sensitive
Department: Street
Reports To: Public Works Director / Assistant Director
Location: City Shop
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION
Performs skilled maintenance work and operates a variety of equipment in the construction, operation, repair, and maintenance of street, bridge, ditch, and storm drainage facilities and systems.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Performs required labor involved in construction and maintenance projects as part of a crew, including pavement cutting, ditch digging, building catch basins, mowing, trimming trees, etc.
- Operates a variety of power construction and maintenance equipment used in the street department, such as sump pump, chainsaw, jack hammer, etc.
- Responsible for assuring that safe procedures are followed in the operation of all street department equipment.
- Inspects and/or repairs streets, drainage systems at frequent intervals to ensure that all aspects of the systems are functioning properly.
- Maintains a variety of records relating to maintenance activity, repairs, etc.
- Responds to complaints and service requests regarding potholes, flooding, right-of-way problems, or related issues; evaluates the situation; explains findings to supervisor.
- Performs routine inspection and preventive maintenance on assigned equipment and refers defects or needed repairs to supervisor; cleans assigned equipment after use.
- Ensures the proper maintenance of equipment and tools by cleaning and checking after use.
- Read and understand vehicle and/or equipment manuals.
- Performs manual labor for extended periods of time.
- Work in the Sanitation Department, as needed.
- Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner.
- Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD
Employees at all levels are expected to effectively work together to meet the needs of the community and the organization through work behaviors demonstrating the City’s values. Employees are also expected to lead by example and demonstrate the highest level of ethics. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Completion of high school or GED equivalent; or any equivalent combination of education and experience which demonstrates the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the work. COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and coworkers; ability to understand and carry out written and oral instructions; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, other departments and the public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables in situations of a routine nature.
PLANNING
Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work; may also occasionally assist in the planning of work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.
DECISION MAKING
Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance; the latter of which would affect the work operations of other employees, citizens, and/or the City to a moderate degree.
MENTAL DEMAND
Close mental demand. Operations require close and continuous attention for long periods of time for control of operations. Operations require intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations regarding the organization's administration and operations; also to determine or select material and equipment where highly variable sequences are involved. ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING
Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes. RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT
Responsible for City vehicles and equipment, digital radios, and any other equipment or property assigned to perform the essential duties. USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS
Regular use of complex machines and equipment – Motorized vehicles and equipment, including pickup truck, saws, pumps, compressors, mowers, weed eaters, common hand and power tools, shovels, wrenches, mobile or portable radio.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to talk or hear; frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance; and occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 65 pounds; specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, outdoor weather conditions; occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration and risk of electrical shock.
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Considerable knowledge of the hazards and safety precautions common to street construction and maintenance work.
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