Part-Time Transit Center Technician

City of Albany, Georgia•Georgia 31701, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this classification is to perform routine housekeeping tasks associated with the care and maintenance of City of Albany assigned facilities at various locations and vehicles to include buses. Duties include general cleaning and housekeeping tasks for interior and exterior of buses and vehicles, checking and replenishing fluid levels, and maintaining materials and supplies. The role also involves responding to emergency clean-up requests for bodily fluid spills or other non-bloodborne pathogen spills, performing routine maintenance and cleaning of facilities (bathrooms, restrooms, lighting, painting), and groundskeeping tasks such as mowing, trash collection, and sidewalk cleaning. The technician will operate and perform minor maintenance on groundskeeping equipment and complete various reports and forms. Communication via telephone and radio is essential for providing information and relaying messages. The position also involves assisting the public, including the elderly and citizens with special needs, and picking up materials and supplies as needed. This role has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) OR two (2) to four (4) months related previous experience and/or training, OR any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.
Must maintain a valid Georgia Driver's License
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
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.
Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; talk or hear and taste or smell.
Occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include physical vision, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

Trains, supervises and assigns work of volunteers, part-time employees, inmate labor; ensures adherence to safety standards.

Responsibilities

Performs general cleaning/housekeeping tasks associated with interior cleaning and exterior washing of buses and vehicles, checking fluid levels, and replenishing fluid levels.
Maintains materials and supplies.
Responds to emergency requests to clean up bodily fluid spills, or other non bloodborne pathogen spills on the road or at the facility.
Performs routine maintenance and cleaning tasks; cleans bathrooms, replenishes restroom supplies, replace light bulbs, and paint inside and outside of facilities as needed.
Performs random or routine grounds keeping tasks such as mowing, edging, weeding, mulching, raking, collecting trash, cleaning sidewalks and parking lots, clearing brush and stumps, applying insecticide/herbicide, and performing related tasks; hauls collected trash to the landfill.
Operates a variety of grounds keeping/maintenance equipment such as a blowers, mowers, weed eaters, tillers, seeders, shovels, plumbing, mechanical, and carpentry tools, and related equipment.
Performs routine maintenance on grounds keeping equipment; performs minor repairs as needed.
Completes reports of landscape/grounds conditions and pest problems to submit to supervisor.
Notifies supervisor of needed tools and supplies.
Completes various inspection forms, correspondence, vehicle maintenance reports, requisition forms, and other documents.
Receives various forms, reports, manuals, or other documentation; reviews, processes, forwards or retains as appropriate.
Communicates via telephone and/or two-way radio; provides information and assistance; takes and relays messages and/or directs calls to appropriate personnel; returns calls as necessary.
Responds to routine requests for information or assistance from employees, the public, or other individuals.
Provides accurate, courteous information to public users; assists the elderly and citizens with special needs.
Pick up materials and supplies as needed.
Performs other related duties as required.