Maintenance Worker 2

State of Montana•Kalispell, MT

12d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is located in Kalispell, MT, a city of approximately 32,000 in the heart of the Flathead Valley. Kalispell residents have access to quality schools, healthcare, shopping, dining, arts, and entertainment, as well as a variety of outdoor activities. Nearby attractions include Flathead Lake, Glacier National Park, and Whitefish Mountain Resort. The employee must be able to work outdoors under adverse weather conditions year-round and perform hard physical labor including heavy lifting, digging, and repetitive motions. The work shift is primarily daytime Monday through Friday, but some evening, weekend, and holiday work may be required. This agency is participating in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalency and three years of job-related experience.
Ability to work outdoors under adverse weather conditions year-round.
Ability to perform hard physical labor including heavy lifting, digging, and repetitive motions.
Ability to obtain a license for chemical weed control applicator.
Ability to operate equipment such as mowers, powered weed trimmers, pick-ups, ATVs, chainsaws, power, and hand tools.
Ability to perform basic repairs to building structures.
Ability to scrape, paint, stain, or treat building and structural surfaces.
Ability to install, repair, and maintain fencing, signs, posts, kiosks, etc.
Ability to perform landscaping activities including mowing, tree pruning, hazardous tree/sagebrush removal, irrigation, and general care and planting of lawns, shrubs, and trees.
Ability to make general repairs to equipment.
Ability to perform specialized tasks requiring training in areas such as plumbing, welding, carpentry, roofing, electrical, historic building stabilization.
Ability to perform plumbing and sewer system repairs and maintenance.
Ability to fabricate specialized equipment.
Ability to plan and determine weed control efforts.
Ability to gather and remove garbage, debris, litter and perform janitorial and cleaning tasks.
Ability to perform basic preventative maintenance for equipment.
Ability to assist with daily maintenance logs and record keeping.
Ability to assist with ordering of supplies and materials.
Ability to complete vehicle reports and other personnel logs and time reporting.
Ability to perform manual work to construct and/or repair property boundary fences.
Ability to perform manual work in maintaining roads, culverts, and bridges.
Ability to perform habitat development and maintenance projects.
Ability to manage large scale irrigation systems.
Ability to monitor FWP sites and make public contacts.
Ability to document incidents and events related to public safety, resource impacts.
Ability to collect fees and educate visitors on rules and regulations.
Ability to report violations observed to superiors for follow up.
Ability to evaluate and familiarize all staff on equipment operation and maintenance.
Ability to participate in and lead safety trainings.
Ability to ensure proper use of personal protective equipment on all job duties.
Ability to assist with major maintenance construction and stabilization projects.
Ability to establish correct procedures to complete a wide variety of skilled, semi-skilled or manual work repairing, constructing and maintaining buildings, land, water, grounds, and related facilities.
Conscientious of equipment use and demonstrates good leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience with historic preservation.
Experience with plumbing, welding, carpentry, roofing, electrical.
Experience with chemical, social, biological, and mechanical weed control methodologies.
Experience as a licensed applicator for weed control.
Experience with hydrogeology and wetland management and permitting.
Experience with backhoes, dump trucks.

Responsibilities

Operates equipment such as mowers, powered weed trimmers, pick-ups, ATVs, chainsaws, power, and hand tools.
Performs basic repairs to building structures (including historic preservation at certain locations) including windows, doors, floors, walls, fences.
Scrapes, paints, stains, or treats building and structural surfaces including windows doors, picnic tables, shelters.
Installs, repairs, and maintains wood, steel, wire and other types of fencing, signs, posts, kiosks, etc.
Performs landscaping activities that include mowing, tree pruning, hazardous tree/sagebrush removal, irrigation and general care and planting of lawns, shrubs, and trees to provide the site with safe and appropriate vegetation to reduce weed problems. This work includes the use of chain saws, pruning saws, mowers, tractors, weed trimmers and backhoe.
Makes general repairs to equipment which may require training, notifies others when extensive repairs are required.
Performs specialized tasks requiring training in areas which may include plumbing, welding, carpentry, roofing, electrical, historic building stabilization some of which must meet specific codes or standards.
Performs plumbing and sewer system repairs and maintenance including working on pumps, wells, valves, commodes, sinks, pressure tanks, septic tanks, sewer lift stations, boiler system and various kinds of pipe including galvanized, copper and plastic.
Fabricates specialized equipment, when needed.
Plans and determines weed control efforts using a variety of methodologies including chemical, social, biological and mechanical controls. Helps produce weed reports for weed maintenance at FWP sites.
Perform weed control efforts including chemical, biological, and mechanical controls as a licensed applicator (or ability to obtain). Coordinates with Maintenance Supervisor to track and report weed maintenance activities for the annual weed report. Comprehensive weed control efforts may include specialized training and work in chemical use, hydrogeology, and wetland management and permitting.
Coordinates weed maintenance tasks with the County spray crews/ contractors while monitoring work performed. Makes site assignments and sets priorities for work.
Gathers and removes garbage, debris, litter and performs janitorial and cleaning tasks.
Performs basic preventative maintenance for equipment such as checking fluids, belts, hoses and filters and notifies others when significant repairs are required.
Assists with daily maintenance logs and ensures record keeping and filing is sufficient in absence of maintenance supervisor. Also assists with ordering of supplies and materials, completing vehicle reports and other personnel logs and time reporting within required timeframes.
Performs manual work to construct and/or repair property boundary fences, using permanent fences to minimize trespass by livestock.
Performs manual work in maintaining roads, culverts, and bridges by using a variety of heavy and light equipment such as backhoes, dump trucks, and hand tools.
Performs habitat development and maintenance projects such as tree planting, grazing programs, mowing, farming, waterfowl nesting structures.
Manages large scale irrigation systems.
Monitors FWP sites and makes public contacts, documents incidents and events related to public safety, resource impacts.
May collect fees and educate visitors on rules and regulations and report violations observed to superiors for follow up.
May evaluate and familiarize all staff on equipment operation and maintenance.
Participates in and may lead safety trainings and ensure proper use of personal protective equipment on all job duties.
Assists with major maintenance construction and stabilization projects on site.
In conjunction with the Maintenance Supervisor and other regional staff, the employee will help establish the correct procedures to complete a wide variety of skilled, semi-skilled or manual work repairing, constructing and maintaining buildings, land, water, grounds, and related facilities.
Always conscientious of equipment use and demonstrates good leadership to other staff by paying extra attention to visitor use areas and cultural and environmental resources while performing job duties.