Maintenance Worker

Laborer Position

This is a full-time, hourly position that reports to a Crew Leader, or designee. The position performs unskilled and limited semi-skilled manual work in the performance of laboring tasks and a variety of construction and maintenance work.

Essential Job Functions

Essential Job Functions:

• Road repairs (asphalt, limerock, etc.). Installs road signs. Clears trees, brush, and vegetation from roadside. Removes and installs concrete.
• Loads and unloads heavy material from trucks. Moves equipment and large bulky objects. Performs custodial duties.
• Flags traffic on roads under repair.
• Maintains grounds. Rakes grass and water plants. Weeds flower beds. Shapes hedges and trims trees. Cuts grass. Plants and fertilizes flowers. May operate tractor-mower in mowing grass on right-of-way on a training basis.
• Loads trash on truck. Unloads trash and other material. Picks up boxes and other materials left by residents.
• Performs repair to equipment. Digs ditches.
• Operates gasoline or other powered machinery such as cement mixers, air hammers, compressors, pumping machinery, saws and etc.
• Performs manual laboring tasks as assigned.
• Required to assist with emergency support functions (ESF) during emergencies or other related emergency duties.

(These essential job functions are not to be construed as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job related marginal duties as required.)

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of tools used in maintenance and construction work.
• Knowledge of occupational hazards connected with laboring work.
• Ability to perform manual labor.
• Ability to learn methods of operating and maintaining equipment and tools.
• Ability to follow, read, and understand written and oral instructions.
• Skill in using hand tools.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Completion of the eighth (8) grade.

(A comparable amount of training, education, or experience may be substituted for the above minimum qualifications.)

LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, OR REGISTRATIONS

• Ability to possess and maintain a valid Florida Driver's License.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL SKILLS

• Sufficient physical strength, agility, and freedom from disabling defects to perform heavy manual labor.
• Heavy lifting and carrying (45 pounds and over).
• Acceptable vision (with or without correction).
• Acceptable hearing (with or without hearing aid).
• Pulling, pushing, balancing.
• Walking, standing, kneeling, bending, stooping.
• Climbing a step ladder.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

• Works inside and outside in varying weather conditions.
• Exposure to dust and dirt.

(Reasonable accommodation will be made for otherwise qualified individuals with a disability or disabilities.)