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Laborer - Streets & Drainage
Pay Grade: \$15.62 23.18 per hour
SUMMARY
The Laborer assists with the repair and maintenance of the City streets
and right of
ways by performing manual labor. Position is deemed seasonal, essential
personnel,
and safety sensitive.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform
each of the
following Essential Duties satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may
be made to
enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
duties of the
position:
Assists with removing and disposing of brushes, limbs, and trees from
right of
ways. (cut, chip, burn)
Assists with patching potholes with asphalt.
Assists with mowing ditches and right-of-ways.
Assists with cleaning catch basins, curbs, and gutters.
Assists with trimming bushes, weeds, and trees at intersections and from
right of
ways.
Assists with operating hand and power tools to make street repairs.
Assists with operating a jackhammer and compressor to loosen materials
for
removal from areas being repaired.
Assists with loading salt to spreader on truck as needed.
Assists with transporting and secures materials used to support walls of
ditches.
Assists with constructing forms for pouring concrete.
Assists with shoveling gravel and other fill or surfacing materials from
truck to
areas being repaired.
Assists with setting up signage and markers for street repair or
closings.
Aids in traffic control during street repairs.
Assists in concrete maintenance work. (street, curb, tile)
Assists in replacing and repairing signs and poles throughout the city.
Assists in preparing streets for paving, seals streets, and compacts
asphalt mats.
Assists in cleaning and replacing culverts, drains, ditches and bridges.
Reports any matters of concern regarding vehicles or equipment to
Streets &
Drainage Director and Assistant Director.
Performs other duties as necessary or assigned.
This job description and the enumerated Essential Duties are intended to
provide
general guidelines for job expectations and the employees ability to
perform the
position described. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all
functions,
responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and
requirements may be
assigned or assumed by the incumbent as necessary to fulfill the
requirements of the
position.
ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The employee
frequently works
outside in adverse weather conditions, and in an office environment with
exposure to
fumes, dust, toxic, or caustic chemicals. Seasonally, employee will be
subject to working
in mild temperatures to extreme heat. The position requires regularly
driving a
motorized vehicle.
The position involves speaking, listening, lifting, carrying, seeing
(such as close, color
and peripheral vision, depth perception and adjusted focus), sitting,
pulling, walking,
standing, squatting, kneeling, and reaching.
The incumbent for this position may operate any or all the following:
telephone,
personal computer, printers, or other equipment as directed.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously
required to
talk or hear; frequently required to walk, sit, reach with hands and
arms; and frequently
required to stand, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must
occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision
abilities required by
this job include close vision, and color vision.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative
of those an
employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this
job. 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.