STREET SWEEPER OPERATOR I

Street Sweeper Operator I

City of Farmington

Job Position #150: Street Sweeper Operator I

Number of Vacancies: 1

Department: Public Works/Streets

Pay Grade: F

Work Location: MOC

Hiring Range: $21.0370/hourly

Days Worked: Monday – Friday

Hours Worked: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Type of Position: Regular, Full-Time

Applications Will Be Received: Open Until Filled

Job Duties

Note: This position requires a Class B Commercial Drivers License (CDL).

Essential Duties:

Under the supervision of Street Division Foreman, performs routine street maintenance construction tasks, including a wide variety of semi-skilled manual tasks and extends to the operation of light to medium sized automotive equipment.

Using excellent customer service skills, establishes and maintains effective working relationships with other employees, officials, and all members of the general public.

Operates a motor vehicle to assist in carrying out the business of the department and the City.

Operates Street Sweepers in order to clean and maintain streets, parking lots, medians, alleys and intersections.

Responds to emergency calls to clean up wrecks, oil and gravel spills.

Performs daily preventative maintenance including checking oil, fluids, coolant, filters, lights, brooms, greasing all inserts and washing unit daily.

Performs mechanical repairs including changing brooms, deflector plate and bar, skid shoes and plates.

Trouble shoots on rear and front engines.

Prepares daily reports on sweeping hours, mileage, water gallons, loads or debris and maintenance performed on sweeper.

Operates jack-hammers, vibrating skid plate tampers, chain saws, weed eaters, hand picks, shovels, brooms, rakes, pitch forks, pruners, and other miscellaneous hand tools.

Operates dump trucks in a wide variety of Community Works' maintenance and construction tasks, snow control equipment, steel wheel rollers, rubber tire rollers, crack sealing machine, loaders, water trucks, and similar equipment, a wide variety of semi-skilled street construction equipment for training purposes.

Attendance at work is an essential function of this position.

Non-Essential Duties:

Assists in setting up and cleaning of job sites including traffic control devices.

Cleans weeds, trash, and other debris from work site.

Performs custodial tasks.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

Qualifications

This position is subject to the City of Farmington's Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Program which includes: pre-employment testing, post-accident testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion testing, return to duty testing, and follow-up testing.

A pre-employment physical and drug/alcohol test is required for this position.

Extensive background checks required.

High school diploma or equivalent, or equivalent work experience in a closely related construction field.

Street Sweeper Operators are considered "Street Sweeper Operator I" for the first three years of service. Operator's will receive a 5% increase and advance to "Street Sweeper Operator II" after three years of service.

Valid state Class B Commercial Drivers License with tanker endorsement required with acceptable driving record for the past three years.

Experience operating street sweepers, dump trucks, water trucks, crack sealing machine, jack-hammers, steel wheel and rubber tire rollers, vibrating skid plate tampers, hand picks and shovels, chain saws, weed eaters, brooms, rakes, pitch forks, pruners and loaders.

One year of work experience in a construction related field involving the operation of trucks or other related light automotive equipment, or equivalent vocational training courses.

Ability to adapt to rotating shifts.

Must have a telephone at residence.

Must be willing and able to be on 24 hour call.

Must be able to be at the MOC within 30 minutes after receiving call.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibration. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.

Works with asphalt, crack sealing material, concrete, salt, liquid calcium chloride, liquid magnesium chloride, oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, herbicides, paint, traffic control signs, trash, weeds, tree limbs, dirt rock, sand and gravel.

Frequent exposure to gasoline, diesel, paint and asphalt fumes.

Operates and works around noisy equipment, vibrating equipment.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.