HVY EQUIP OPER

Orange County Public Schools•Orlando, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Under direction, the purpose of the position is to operate heavy trucks and equipment in the pick-up, distribution, transport, and delivery of various materials for the school district. Employees in this classification bring previous experience to the work, and are capable of leading work crews in the operation of automotive trucks and equipment according to assigned work orders. Position transports items including, but not necessarily limited to, work site waste and debris, portable classrooms, heavy equipment, concrete and asphalt, and construction materials. Duties are physically demanding, requiring incumbents to exercise considerable dexterity and physical agility in operating multiple controls to excavate, load, transfer, and unload of equipment and materials. Performs related work as directed.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Minimum (3) years progressively skilled heavy truck and equipment operating experience, demonstrating safe and effective equipment operation requiring setting and adjustment of multiple controls and conditions
Ability to maintain basic activity and numerical records
Ability to maintain a valid commercial driver’s license class “A”
Requires the ability to calculate, compute, summate, and/or tabulate data and/or information. Includes performing subsequent actions in relation to these computational operations.
Requires the ability to provide leadership, guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of heavy trucks and associated automotive equipment.
Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive and design data and information.
Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate decimals and percentages.
Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action.
Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.
Tasks involve the ability to exert very heavy physical effort in very heavy work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of heavy objects and materials (up to 100 pounds) and occasionally heavier items (100 pounds or over).
Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination.
Tasks are regularly performed with exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, and traffic hazards.

Responsibilities

Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
Functions in a lead worker capacity for work crews engaged in retrieval, removal, demolition, transfer, excavation, loading and distribution of equipment and materials at various school location work sites.
Operates a variety of trucks and associated automotive equipment as applicable to assigned work orders, i.e., dump trucks, front end loaders, back hoes, graders, bull dozers, forklifts, tractors, rollers, bucket trucks, hydraulic cranes.
Observes standards of safe truck and equipment operation on highways, roadways, and school grounds to ensure the protection of life and property.
Transports and delivers items including, but not necessarily limited to, work site waste and debris, portable classrooms, heavy equipment, concrete and asphalt, and construction materials.
Maintains vehicle service records and repair logs; adheres to established preventive maintenance and service schedules.
Performs various basic to semi-skilled trades and property maintenance functions within scope of abilities, as acquired through time and experience in the work.
Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.
Performs related duties as directed.