Service Worker, Solid Waste Management

Job Title

This is the first level in the Service Worker series. Performs skilled and semi-skilled construction, maintenance, and repair work in an assigned area of responsibility.

Essential Functions

Performs skilled and semi-skilled construction, maintenance and repair work, such as repairing streets, laying concrete, carpentry, painting, plumbing, landscaping, and repair of specialized equipment.

Operates various light, medium, and heavy equipment including brush tractors, dump trucks, mowing and sweeping equipment, trucks, truck with trailers, and Fire vehicles.

May provide general direction to other employees and volunteers.

Uses various hand and power tools to accomplish tasks.

Explains and enforces rules and regulations pertaining to safety, barricading, direction of traffic, hazardous materials, and operation of equipment.

Notifies residents and businesses of work being performed; answers questions from citizens.

Maintains daily work records; may perform some computerized data entry work.

Transports and sets up supplies and equipment; makes required safety checks.

May act as a lead worker with ASPEN inmates.

Operates city vehicles; depending on area of assignment may operate vehicles which require a Commercial Driver's License (CDL).

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Parks:

1. Maintains parks, right-of-ways, parking lots, and bike paths.
2. Operates mowing equipment, chain saws, weed eaters and other equipment.
3. Maintains and adjusts sprinkler systems, provides irrigation services, maintains irrigation equipment, and removes graffiti.
4. Trims trees and bushes, and cares for plants.
5. Repairs or replaces park playground and recreation equipment, picnic benches and tables.
6. Marks and reconditions playing fields and assists with set up for sports and special events.
7. Repairs backstops, bleachers, and dug out areas.
8. Installs and maintains park signs, fences, and gates.
9. Sets and pours new playground concrete areas.
10. Responds to, and resolves citizen complaints pertaining to parks facilities.
11. Explains and enforces park policies and regulations to park patrons.
12. Maintains high visibility to dissuade vandalism and crime in parks facilities.
13. Assists with animal control in parks facilities.
14. Assists with maintenance, repairs, and customer service at City cemetery.
15. Ensures that reserved facilities are maintained in a safe, clean condition; checks for permits.
16. Provides assistance in emergency situations; calls for police or medical assistance.

Streets:

1. Constructs new streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, bus pads, and handicap ramps.
2. Maintains and repairs streets, parking lots, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, and handicap ramps.
3. Operates trucks and equipment used in oil and crack sealing, slurry sealing, pothole patching and street and curb cutting, such as concrete saws, tampers, jack hammers, heaters and mixers.
4. Sets forms, and performs some concrete work.
5. May install chain link fences, construct block walls, meter and traffic bases, stems and footings.

Right-of-Ways:

1. Performs skilled, and semi-skilled landscape construction, maintenance and repair work in an assigned area of responsibility.
2. Maintains right-of-ways, undeveloped properties and alleys.
3. Trims trees and bushes, cares for plants, and applies herbicides and pesticides.
4. Operates heavy mowing equipment, chainsaws, weed eaters, brush tractors, front-end loaders, and other landscape equipment.
5. Installs tests, maintains and repairs irrigation systems, vacuum breakers, valves and clocks.

Solid Waste Management/Landfill:

1. Prepares cover products and applies to landfill face and slopes.
2. Controls dust by spraying water to roadways from water truck.
3. Transports fuel to heavy equipment via fuel truck.
4. Operates Water Truck and Waterpull.
5. Assists weigh scale operator.
6. Directs waste haulers to dumping locations, and monitors wastes for non-acceptable materials.

Solid Waste Management/Residential:

1. Maintains and repairs sanitation containers.
2. Delivers sanitation containers throughout the city.

Solid Waste Management/Litter Control

1. Maintains right-of-ways, undeveloped properties and alleys by collecting litter, refuse and debris on a regular basis. Operates assigned vehicles and other equipment on a daily basis; loads and unloads trash, litter and debris in truck or trailer.
2. Works independently and exercises judgment when planning and coordinating daily schedules.
3. Works as a laborer; operates various hand and power tools to accomplish tasks.
4. Keeps daily log of work performed, mileage, weight collected and dumped, equipment condition and performance.
5. Empties debris into the solid waste truck and operates the hydraulic packer to compact refuse.
6. Operates brush tractor with grapple buckets and forklifts as needed.
7. May deliver solid waste containers throughout the city for commercial (300-gallon) and residential (90-gallon) customers
8. Performs routine maintenance and minor repairs on the equipment such as cleaning, fueling, checking and adding oil, filling radiator and maintaining tire pressures.
9. Performs safety checks on equipment.
10. Operates a portable radio.
11. Accurately and timely completes timesheets, accident report forms and other relevant reports.
12. Completes public violation notifications and corrective action tags.
13. Maintains regular attendance.
14. Performs other duties as assigned.

Housing Maintenance:

1. Performs skilled and semi-skilled construction, maintenance, and repair work including carpentry, painting, general plumbing and drywall work for the City's housing units.
2. Performs repairs on kitchen appliances, furnaces, and evaporative house coolers.

Airport:

1. Performs daily inspections of runway, taxiway, and aircraft parking apron; maintains inspections records.
2. Performs general maintenance and landscaping of airport facilities.
3. Enforces airport rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
4. Performs general maintenance and upkeep and safety checks of airport vehicles.
5. Completes noise forms according to federal aviation requirements.
6. Repairs runway and taxiway lights.
7. Performs security functions and inspections of buildings and grounds; maintains shift logs of normal and abnormal activities.
8. Responds to and resolves tenant and citizen inquiries and complaints.
9. Obtains and maintains wildlife hazard management supplies;
10. Maintains a database of wildlife hazard management activities, including information obtained from pilot reports, mechanical inspections, and daily observations;
11. Obtains/provides instruction to airport staff regarding wildlife hazards and wildlife hazard management policies and procedures;
12. Implements daily wildlife management measures;
13. Records wildlife strikes and instruct other airport staff, tenants, pilots, and regulatory agencies when addressing issues associated with wildlife hazards and wildlife management.
14. Use of two-way radios to communicate with airport staff and airport control tower staff.

Fire Department:

1. Performs certified skilled maintenance and technical repair work, such as repairing self-contained Breathing Apparatus and fire stream nozzles.
2. Assembles, maintains and instructs the use of some fire equipment.
3. Explains to residents and businesses functions of fire department services.
4. May be required to perform blood pressures for walk in citizens.
5. Maintains business contacts with private vendors of equipment and supplies.
6. Maintains and inventories fire station supplies and orders as needed.
7. Uses computers to manage data on work projects and programs for management.
8. Transports and sets up supplies and