(Temporary) Maintenance Worker
City of Soledad
- Soledad, CA
- $25.27-30.13 per hour
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Performs a wide variety of construction, installation, maintenance, and repair work on City streets, utility systems, parks, grounds, buildings, facilities, and equipment; provides limited scope electrical, plumbing, painting, and carpentry work; assists in the performance of utility maintenance, including water systems, fire hydrants, and wastewater system equipment.
- Operates specialized vehicles and a variety of light, medium, and heavy equipment related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of City infrastructure.
- Performs basic maintenance on light, medium, and heavy-duty equipment and trucks appropriate to the functional area of assignment.
- Operates a variety of hand and power tools and equipment related to work assignment as instructed.
- Maintains work areas in a clean and orderly condition, including securing equipment at the close of the workday.
- Installs street barricades and cones, and controls traffic around work sites to ensure safe conditions for the general public and City workers.
- Performs asphalt and concrete repair and patchwork; removes trees, brush, and debris from right-of-ways to access sewer main lines and laterals.
- Performs a variety of technical landscape and parks construction duties, including planting flowers, shrubs, and trees, irrigating, mowing, and fertilizing turf and lawns, trimming and planting, fertilizing, and pruning shrubs.
- Inspects, maintains, repairs, and constructs developed and undeveloped parks, playgrounds, athletic and other related facilities and properties.
- Performs pesticide applications as required, including calculating proper amounts of pesticides, spraying parks, trails, landscapes, and street trees, and completing necessary paperwork.
- Maintains interior and exterior of parks and landscapes in a clean and safe condition, including picking up trash and maintaining trash receptacles, cleaning and repairing restrooms, and cleaning up vandalism.
- Installs and repairs irrigation equipment, including installing irrigation pipes, testing systems, and making repairs.
- Provides for the maintenance and repairs of City streets and roadways, including shoveling and spreading asphalt in patching, painting, and striping, repairing, and reconstructing streets.
- Provides installation, maintenance, and repair of traffic signs, including making signs, and installing signposts and signs in accordance with City, State, and Federal Codes.
- Performs a variety of duties in the maintenance of stormdrain structures to ensure efficient drainage.
- Drives the street sweeper and performs limited service and repairs on the sweeper.
- Performs a variety of weed abatement duties to eliminate hazards to vehicles and pedestrians as necessary.
- Orders materials from specified vendors as necessary to complete duties; requisitions materials and supplies from City stores for assigned projects.
- Performs visual checks of meter conditions and connections to ensure efficient operations, and reports damaged or non-functioning meters.
- Provides needed information and demonstrations concerning how to perform certain work tasks to new employees in the same or similar class of positions.
- Observes safe work methods and makes appropriate use of related safety equipment as required.
- Responds to complaints and answers questions from public or escalates to supervisor, as necessary.
- Responds to emergency situations as necessary.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
- Maintenance principles, practices, tools, and materials for maintaining storm drain systems, streets, traffic signs, street marking, and asphalt and concrete repair, as well as parks, landscape construction, irrigation, playgrounds, athletic and sports fields, and other related facilities and properties.
- The operation and minor maintenance of a variety of hand and power tools, vehicles, and power equipment.
- Basic traffic control procedures and traffic sign regulations.
- Safe work methods and safety practices pertaining to the work.
- Applicable codes and regulations.
- Basic record keeping principles and procedures.
- Shop arithmetic.
- Basic computer applications related to work, including inventory control and record keeping.
- English usage, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation.
- Techniques for providing a high level of customer service to public and City staff, in person and over the telephone.
- Perform construction, modification, maintenance, and repair work on streets, facilities and equipment, parks, and landscapes such as found in the City.
- Operate specialized street maintenance and repair equipment.
- Set up and operate traffic area construction zones, including cones, barricades, and flagging.
- Locate underground utilities by use of blue prints and electronic locating equipment in accordance with Underground Service Alert (USA) regulations.
- Troubleshoot maintenance problems and determine materials and supplies required for repair.
- Make accurate arithmetic calculations.
- Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications.
- Safely and effectively use and operate hand tools, mechanical equipment, power tools, and equipment required for the work.
- Perform routine equipment maintenance.
- Maintain accurate logs, records, and basic written records of work performed.
- Follow department policies and procedures related to assigned duties.
- Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Organize own work, set priorities, and meet critical time deadlines.
- Use English effectively to communicate in person, over the telephone, and in writing.
- Use tact, initiative, prudence, and independent judgment within general policy, procedural, and legal guidelines.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work.
- Valid California class A or B driver's license highly desirable.
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