Maintenance Worker III - Sanitation (CDL Required)

Maintenance Worker III- Sanitation Division

CDL Required: CDL HOLDER BONUS INCENTIVE

$2,000 Hiring Bonus $1,000 after first 90 days and $1,000 upon completion of 1 year probation.

$2,000 Retention Bonus each year following

The purpose of this class within the organization is to perform semi-skilled and manual maintenance duties required to preserve or improve the safety, cleanliness, appearance, and appeal of the Town by maintaining, cleaning, repairing, constructing and installing the Town's asphalt, concrete, water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, traffic signage, signal, landscaping, trees, buildings and other infrastructure. Work unit assignment determines primary and essential functions. Work is performed outdoors in all types of weather conditions, or indoors depending on individual work assignments. Work environment includes exposure to noise, dust and traffic with extended periods of standing, walking, bending, crouching, lifting heavy objects and operating equipment. This job may prepare an incumbent for career progression by gaining additional, more complex, skills. This class works under general supervision, developing work methods and sequences.

Work Schedule Monday through Friday 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM Overtime as necessary and mandatory during emergency situations All new employees must satisfactorily complete a background check. A conditional offer of employment may then be made contingent upon the successful completion of a physical exam that includes drug and alcohol testing This is a Non-Exempt Position.

Duties and Responsibilities

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the class as necessary. Essential Functions:

• Drives and operates a large sanitation truck.
• Guides other maintenance workers on daily refuse, recycling, brush, and yard waste pickup from residential areas.
• Guides, helps, and advises less experienced maintenance workers with various tasks described below:
• Deploys traffic control devices and is exposed to traffic conditions, noise grease, mists and dust.
• Operates large and heavy equipment, such as, a single axle dump truck to remove snow and ice; operates leaf machine; drives truck to remove leaves from the curbside; operates street sweeper to clean all streets throughout spring and summer months; operates sanitation truck to collect trash, yard waste and recyclables; monitors crew to ensure safety; empties dumpsters and travels to proper disposal facility; maintains truck by washing and greasing; operates backhoe; uses a variety of tools and power tools such as hammers, screw drivers, wrenches, sockets, drills, powered grinders, jigsaws, rakes, shovels, and pole diggers; operates pole and chain saws.
• Collects trash and yard waste, picks up leaves and brush, empties containers and dumpsters, receives and/or reviews various records and reports such as identifying what is in each can. Refers to rules and regulations, policy and procedure manuals, codes/laws/regulations, publications and reference texts. Operates a variety of vehicles and equipment such as non-commercial vehicles. Uses a variety of tools such, but not limited to, brooms and shovels and a variety of supplies such, including safety supplies. Interacts and communicates with various groups and individuals such as the town manager, supervisor, co-workers, the general public and, occasionally, public officials. Trains and observes employee adherence to rules; reports back to immediate supervisor. Maintains and inspects the sanitation truck on a daily basis; reports problems to the supervisor. Assists with loading heavy materials into the truck, drives the truck once full to the appropriate facility, washes and greases truck. Diagnoses, troubleshoots, communicates and, in some instances, completes routine maintenance and minor repairs to equipment, small engines, specialized excavation, paving, cleaning, and inspection equipment and associated vehicles. Assists with maintaining an inventory of spare parts and materials for work areas assigned.

Additional Duties:

• Sets up and tears down after town events.
• Fixes/repairs holiday lights; strings lights on trees and light poles using a bucket truck.
• Installs street and traffic signs.
• Loads and unloads trucks.
• Flags traffic in work areas for workers and drivers.
• Reports to work for snow or other emergencies as assigned.
• Paints public buildings.
• Performs related work as assigned including job layout planning.
• Maintains positive relations with co-workers and customers.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts

Data Responsibility: Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations. Collects, classifies or formats data or information in accordance with a prescribed schema or plan to facilitate the identification and extraction of useful information. Interprets map documents, diagrams, sketches, technical manuals and uses associate numbering systems for utility assets, and is also able to understand various plan drawings. Must be competent using software and tablets for email and record-keeping.

People Responsibility: People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public. Speaks with or signals to people to convey or exchange information of a general nature.

Asset Responsibility: Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization. Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management of a small division; handles supplies of high value or moderate amounts of money consistent with the operation of a small division.

Mathematical Requirements: Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems. Uses addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and/or calculates ratios, rates and percentages.

Communications Requirements: Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak. Reads routine sentences, instructions, regulations, procedures or work orders; writes routine sentences and completes routine job forms and incident reports, by hand or electronically; speaks routine sentences using proper grammar. Has the ability to communicate using verbal, handwritten, and electronic messages.

Judgment Requirements: Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions. Responsible for short to moderate range goals, planning and methodologies. Decision-making is focus of the job, affecting entire organization and surrounding population; works in an unstable environment with frequent and significant changes in conditions.

Complexity of Work: Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration and creativity, required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job. Performs semi-skilled work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.

Impact of Errors: Impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals. The impact of errors is moderately serious affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.

Physical Demands: Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement. Performs heavy work that involves constantly lifting, shoveling, and carrying up to 50 pounds on a regular and recurring basis and exerting up to 70 pounds of force on an occasional basis.

Equipment Usage: Equipment usage involves responsibility for materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products. Leads or handles machines, tools, equipment or work aids involving moderate latitude for judgment regarding attainment of a standard or in selecting appropriate items.

Unavoidable Hazards: Unavoidable hazards refer to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken. Work is performed outdoors in all types of weather conditions, or indoors depending on individual work assignments. Work environment includes exposure to noise, dust and traffic with extended periods of standing, walking, bending, crouching, lifting heavy objects and operating equipment.

Safety of Others: Safety of others refers to the level of responsibility for the safety of others, either inherent in the job or to ensure the safety of the general public. Requires responsibility for the safety and health of others.

Minimum Training and Experience

Requires High School diploma or GED equivalent. Requires three years large and heavy equipment operation, building maintenance or other closely related experience, dependent on position recruited. Special Certifications and Licenses: Valid State Commercial Driver's License (Class B) with N endorsement, or ability to obtain endorsement within six months of employment

Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance The Town of Vienna is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the Town of Vienna to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.