Stormwater Maintenance

The City of Albany is seeking a motivated Stormwater Maintenance Worker I to join our team. This role offers the opportunity to work outdoors in a dynamic environment, helping to maintain and improve stormwater quality facilities, the Albany Shrub Hub native nursery, and the Talking Water Gardens treatment wetland. This is crucial for the community.

From planting and caring for vegetation to maintaining public stormwater facilities and supporting water quality initiatives that protect our community, you’ll play an important role in keeping Albany green, healthy, and sustainable.

If you enjoy hands-on work, take pride in serving your community, and value environmental stewardship, we encourage you to apply.

• Excellent medical, vision and dental benefit package for the employee and qualified family members with low monthly out-of-pocket cost. Employee-paid premium is approximately $59 per month for employee-only coverage up to a maximum of $170 per month for family coverage.
• City-paid contribution to a VEBA Trust account for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. F Currently, the annual contribution is $1,000 for employee-only and $2,000 for employee plus dependent(s).
• Paid time off including:
  • 8 hours of vacation leave per month, with progressive increases
  • 8 hours of sick leave per month
  • 10 paid holidays and 3 floating holidays per year
  • No waiting period to use vacation and/or sick leave accruals
• Excellent retirement benefits:
  • City-paid participation in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (OPSRP and City pays 6% IAP contribution)
  • City-paid 0.5% contribution into pre-tax deferred compensation plan
• In addition, other benefits such as job-related college tuition and book reimbursement, employee assistance program, basic life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and flexible spending accounts for healthcare and childcare expenses.

Performs a variety of basic semi-skilled and skilled maintenance, inspection, installation, planting, and repair duties of stormwater quality facilities, the Albany Shrub Hub native plant nursery, and Talking Water Gardens treatment wetland; uses a variety of manual landscape tools to maintain vegetated stormwater facilities supporting stormwater utility operations of stormwater quality facilities; and performs related work as required.

The Stormwater Maintenance I classification is part of a progressive series where an employee advances levels based on their level of experience, certifications obtained and demonstrated proficiency in the performance of job duties, skill, and responsibility. Differences in duties and certifications are outlined here.

The duties listed are intended only as illustrative examples of the various types of work that may be performed by individuals in this classification. Any of the following duties may be performed. These examples are not necessarily performed by all incumbents and do not include all specific essential functions and responsibilities the incumbent may be expected to perform.

• Maintains hundreds of public stormwater quality facilities throughout the city; assists in maintaining the Talking Water Gardens wetland.
• Performs routine maintenance by using landscaping tools to perform weeding, regularly removing debris and trash, grading/leveling of treatment areas, removing accumulated sediment, implementing Integrated Pest Management programs, planting, performing minor irrigation system maintenance, replacing/replenishing engineered soil, leveling treatment areas, mitigating erosion and channelization issues, repairing minor concrete issues, clearing blockages, and loosening compacted soil.
• Performs other landscaping maintenance functions as assigned to ensure the…