Maintenance Laborer (Part-Time)

City of La Habra•La Habra, CA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The City of La Habra is recruiting a part-time Maintenance Laborer for its Parks and Streets Divisions in the Public Works Department and will establish an eligibility list for future openings. Under immediate supervision, the position performs unskilled manual labor and assists with and receives training in semi-skilled tasks. The schedule is approximately 25–28 hours per week; applicants must be available to work weekends, and hours may vary according to department needs. Work may involve maintaining city parks, streets, and public rights-of-way. The final candidate must successfully complete a medical exam, drug screening, employment history verification, and DMV check, and will be fingerprinted. City employees are also required to perform assigned disaster service worker duties in an emergency or disaster.

Requirements

Experience in large-scale landscape or park maintenance, or street maintenance.
Must possess and maintain a California Class C driver's license.
General knowledge of tools and methods of labor.
Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
Ability to work safely around mechanical equipment.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
Must be available to work weekends.
Ability to perform heavy physical work, including frequent pushing, pulling, climbing, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds, and to use minimal-skill tools such as shovels, rakes, and hand tools.

Responsibilities

Load and unload materials, equipment, and supplies.
Mow and trim lawns using power and hand equipment.
Perform work on commercial and public rights-of-way and streets.
Set up traffic control devices, including traffic cones, delineators, and barricades.
Manually dig and backfill trenches and holes.
Lift and move heavy objects.
Perform general work preparation and cleanup.
Assist ground keepers with mowing, insecticide and herbicide spraying, and park irrigation.
Operate, clean, and maintain tools and equipment such as mowers, tractors, graders, or backhoes on a training or relief basis.
Plant, trim, and water street trees.
Clean restrooms on park grounds.
Patrol park grounds for litter and dump trash.
Maintain sports fields, playgrounds, and daycare grounds.
Paint and remove graffiti and repair areas of vandalism.
Operate city-issued vehicles.
Perform related duties as required.
Perform assigned disaster service worker duties during an emergency or disaster.