Operator I, Equipment (Mowing Crew)

City Of Siloam•Siloam Springs, AR

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Operator I is primarily responsible for weed eating and/or mowing City rights-of-ways and detention ponds. May also be responsible for street maintenance, signs, drainage, storm pipe, etc. This role involves performing labor in various maintenance and construction projects within the Street & Infrastructure department, including operating small mowing equipment, tools, and potentially larger equipment after training. The position also includes responsibilities related to inclement weather operations and traffic control.

Requirements

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one (1) to three (3) months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Must hold a valid driver’s license.
Must be able to obtain a Class B commercial driver’s license (CDL) within 12 months of employment.
Regular Attendance - Punctual and regular attendance is an essential responsibility of each employee at the City of Siloam Springs. Employees are expected to report to work as scheduled, on time and prepared to start working. Employees also are expected to remain at work for their entire work schedule. Late arrival, early departure, or other absences from scheduled hours, that are not pre-approved or are excessive are disruptive and are to be avoided.

Nice To Haves

The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this position include close, distance and color vision, depth perception, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees.
Contact residents and business owners in area where services will be discontinued and explain when service will be shut off and how soon service will be turned back on.
Responsible for safety on roadway and ensuring public safety and health by performing duties by established standards.
Ensure proper operation and maintenance of equipment and tools by cleaning and checking equipment and tools after use.
Perform routine inspection and preventative maintenance on assigned equipment, refers defects of needed repairs to supervisor, and cleans equipment.
Perform on call duties as necessary.
Perform all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.
Responsible for street upkeep in the city limits and repair of asphalt or concrete, signs and posts, street and ditch drainage in the city limits.
Responsible for installation of storm drainpipe, drain boxes, forming and finishing concrete as directed, and installing curb, gutter, and asphalt. Cut, fit, lay, repair, tap, clean, and flush water and sewer main pipes. Construction of sewer manholes.
Perform required labor involved in construction and maintenance projects as part of a crew, including pavement cutting, ditch digging, main and pipe repair, laying and backfilling.
Perform unskilled manual labor, as necessary, in a variety of maintenance and construction projects within the Street & Infrastructure department.
Perform duties regarding inclement weather including applying sand and ice melt as weather conditions require and remove sand on street after improved conditions. Operate snow removal equipment such as dump truck with brine unit, sander unit, snowplows and backhoes as needed for removal of snow and ice.
Operating all small mowing equipment such as weed eaters and small mowing tractor to maintain street rights-of-way.
Operate tools as needed: chainsaw, chipper, compacter, street/concrete saws, dump truck, loaders, tree trimmer and remove hazardous trees as needed.
Traffic control – directing and flagging vehicles.
May train on equipment such as large mowing tractors, street sweeper, backhoes, skid loaders, rollers, dump trucks, and other light equipment as needed.
Perform other related duties as required or assigned.