Equipment Operator I - Street

Equipment Operator I Street

This safety sensitive position (SS) purpose is to transport materials to job sites and assists with street maintenance duties.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Operates a dump truck to haul hot asphalt, sand, gravel, rock, and supplies. This duty is performed daily.
• Operates a front-end loader to load materials and equipment. This duty is performed daily.
• Operates a backhoe. This duty is performed daily.
• Inspects vehicle on a daily basis to assure that proper levels of air pressure, gasoline, oil, and other fluids are maintained; reports any mechanical or electrical defects; washes, cleans, and fuels truck. This duty is performed daily.
• Assists with drainage pipe installation. This duty is performed as needed.
• Flags traffic around work areas. This duty is performed as needed.
• Cut trees from rights-of-way with a chain saw and perform other laboring duties as necessary. This duty is performed as needed.
• Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions.
• 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.

Education and experience: Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines. Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Communication skills: Ability to read and understand simple instructions, short correspondence, notes, letters and memos; Ability to write simple correspondence.

Mathematical skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.

Critical thinking skills: Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out simple multi-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with limited variables.

Required certificates, licenses, registrations:

CDL license as required to operate assigned equipment, Valid Driver License

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; and depth perception.