Salary: $21.42 Hourly
Location : Los Banos, CA
Job Type: Part-time
Job Number: 09-2023
Department: Parks & Recreation
Opening Date: 09/21/2023
Closing Date: 10/12/2023 11:59 PM Pacific
Description
Qualified applicants will be contacted after the recruitment closes.
DEFINITION
To perform a variety of construction, maintenance and repair duties related to City’s streets, sidewalks, buildings, and parks.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives general supervision from an assigned supervisor; receives technical and functional supervision from a Public Works Foreman.
Detailed Work Activities
EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Reliable and dependable attendance and punctuality
- Perform construction, maintenance and repair activities designed to provide quality streets, sidewalks, traffic control systems and related City public facilities.
- Perform required labor involved in construction and maintenance projects as part of a crew, including applying reclamite, emulsion, crack filler, hot mix and cold mix overlays to reconstruct and repair streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters; apply striping, delineators, signs and other traffic control devices.
- Spray right-of-ways, planters, ball fields and other City areas with herbicides and pesticides; perform manual weed abatement activities.
- Trim, prune, plant and maintain City trees; operate a chain saw, chipper, stump grinder and root cutter; notify supervisor of diseased and/or damaged trees.
- Mow, edge, fertilize and maintain grass and turf; remove weeds, prune shrubs, plant and maintain plants and flowers; operate a mower, edger, blower and tractor.
- Remove graffiti from City buildings and infrastructure.
- Perform routine carpentry, plumbing, painting and repair of City facilities and buildings.
- Prepare and maintain ball fields; water down, drag and chalk fields.
- Clean and maintain City restrooms, picnic areas, buildings and other public facilities.
- Clean up debris from parking lots, walkways, ditches, alleys, streets and storm drains.
- Maintain records related to the inspection and repair of City facilities and infrastructure.
- Contact residents and business owners in areas where streets will be temporarily closed for maintenance or repairs; respond to citizens questions.
- Operate and maintain City vehicles and heavy equipment, i.e. tractors, loaders, and various power tools.
- Repair signs.
- Maintain and repair public sprinkler systems; monitor and make routine corrections to irrigation systems servicing parks or other landscaped City areas.
- Inspect, maintain and make routine repairs to playground equipment.
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, other City employees and the public using principles of good customer service.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge of:
- Basic uses and purposes of general construction tools and equipment.
- Safe work practices.
- The operation of heavy equipment.
Ability to:
- Learn to perform routine maintenance City streets, parks, buildings and related facilities and infrastructure.
- On a continuous basis, know and understand operations, and observe safety rules; intermittently analyze problem equipment; identify and locate equipment; interpret work orders; and remember equipment location.
- Intermittently, sit while studying or preparing reports; bend, squat, climb, kneel and twist when performing construction and maintenance duties; perform simple and power grasping, pushing, pulling, and fine manipulation; and lift or carry weight of 75 pounds or less.
- Keep clear, concise, accurate and legible written reports and records.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Must be age eighteen (18) by date of application.
- Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade.
- Possession of a valid California Class C driver license.
All Part-time, Provisional, and Temporary employees shall be provided with three (3) days or twenty-four (24) hours of accrued sick leave upon hire and thereafter on July 1st of each year. Accrued sick leave shall not accumulate higher than twenty-four (24) hours each fiscal year (July 1st – June 30th) and shall not carry over to the next fiscal year. Employees are rendering service to the City while off on fully compensated Sick Leave Sick Leave granted by the City and used by an employee shall be deducted from the employee’s accrued Sick Leave balance. Employees who are off work on un-paid leave of absence are not considered as rendering service to the City.
01
Are you eighteen (18) years of age or older?
- Yes
- No
02
Have you successfully completed the twelfth grade or equivalent?
- Yes
- No
03
Do you currently have a valid California Class C driver license or have the ability to obtain one?
- Yes
- No
Required Question