PT Maintenance Worker

City of Los Banos•Los Banos, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is limited to a maximum of 19 hours per week. Work schedules may vary based on department needs and may include evening and/or weekend shifts. Qualified applicants will be contacted after the recruitment closes. This role performs a variety of construction, maintenance, and repair duties related to the City’s streets, sidewalks, buildings, and parks.

Requirements

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.
Basic knowledge of uses and purposes of general construction tools and equipment.
Knowledge of safe work practices.
Knowledge of the operation of heavy equipment.
Ability to learn to perform routine maintenance on 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.

Responsibilities

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.