Maintenance Worker
Putnam County Board of County Commissioners•223 Putnam County Boulevard - East Palatka, FL
•Onsite
About The Position
This is a full-time, hourly position that reports to a Crew Leader, or designee. The position performs unskilled and limited semi-skilled manual work in the performance of laboring tasks and a variety of construction and maintenance work.
Requirements
- Knowledge of tools used in maintenance and construction work.
- Knowledge of occupational hazards connected with laboring work.
- Ability to perform manual labor.
- Ability to learn methods of operating and maintaining equipment and tools.
- Ability to follow, read, and understand written and oral instructions.
- Skill in using hand tools.
- Completion of the eighth (8) grade.
- Ability to possess and maintain a valid Florida Driver's License.
- Sufficient physical strength, agility, and freedom from disabling defects to perform heavy manual labor.
- Heavy lifting and carrying (45 pounds and over).
- Acceptable vision (with or without correction).
- Acceptable hearing (with or without hearing aid).
- Pulling, pushing, balancing.
- Walking, standing, kneeling, bending, stooping.
- Climbing a step ladder.
Nice To Haves
- May operate tractor-mower in mowing grass on right-of-way on a training basis.
Responsibilities
- Road repairs (asphalt, limerock, etc.).
- Installs road signs.
- Clears trees, brush, and vegetation from roadside.
- Removes and installs concrete.
- Loads and unloads heavy material from trucks.
- Moves equipment and large bulky objects.
- Performs custodial duties.
- Flags traffic on roads under repair.
- Maintains grounds.
- Rakes grass and water plants.
- Weeds flower beds.
- Shapes hedges and trims trees.
- Cuts grass.
- Plants and fertilizes flowers.
- May operate tractor-mower in mowing grass on right-of-way on a training basis.
- Loads trash on truck.
- Unloads trash and other material.
- Picks up boxes and other materials left by residents.
- Performs repair to equipment.
- Digs ditches.
- Operates gasoline or other powered machinery such as cement mixers, air hammers, compressors, pumping machinery, saws and etc.
- Performs manual laboring tasks as assigned.
- Required to assist with emergency support functions (ESF) during emergencies or other related emergency duties.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
