Laborer, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor, Building Maintenance

Department: Street and Drainage Department

Hours: Full-Time Non-Exempt

CITY OF BENTON

Job Description

Job Title: Laborer

Department: Streets & Drainage

Classification: Non-Exempt

Reports to: Streets & Drainage Asst Director

EEO Category: Full-time

Pay Grade: $32,489.60 - $48,214.40 or

$15.62 – 23.18 per hour

The Laborer assists with the repair and maintenance of the City streets and right of ways by performing manual labor. Position is deemed essential personnel and safety sensitive.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the following Essential Duties satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of the position:

• Removes and disposes brushes, limbs, and trees from right of ways. (cut, chip, burn)
• Patches potholes with asphalt.
• Mows ditching and right-of-way’s.
• Cleans catch basins, curbs, and gutters.
• Trims bushes, weeds, and trees at intersections and from right of ways.
• Operates hand and power tools to make street repairs.
• Operates a jackhammer and compressor to loosen materials for removal from areas being repaired.
• Loads salt to spreader on truck as needed.
• Transport and secures materials used to support walls of ditches.
• Shovels gravel and other fill or surfacing materials from truck to areas being repaired.
• Set up signage and markers for street repair or closings.
• Aids in traffic control during street repairs.
• Assists in concrete maintenance work. (street, curb, tile)
• Assists in replacing and repairing signs and poles throughout the city.
• Assists in preparing streets for paving, seals streets, and compacts asphalt mats.
• Assists in cleaning and replacing culverts, drains, ditches and bridges.
• Reports any matters of concern regarding vehicles or equipment to Streets & Drainage Director and Assistant Director.
• Will be required to work and serve on-call outside of normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and/or holidays as needed by the department.
• Performs other duties as necessary or assigned.

This job description and the enumerated Essential Duties are intended to provide general guidelines for job expectations and the employees’ ability to perform the position described. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned or assumed by the incumbent as necessary to fulfill the requirements of the position.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The employee frequently works outside in adverse weather conditions, and in an office environment with exposure to fumes, dust, toxic, or caustic chemicals. Seasonally, employee will be subject to working in mild temperatures to extreme heat. The position requires regularly driving a motorized vehicle.

The position involves speaking, listening, lifting, carrying, seeing (such as close, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and adjusted focus), sitting, pulling, walking, standing, squatting, kneeling, and reaching.

The incumbent for this position may operate any or all the following: telephone, personal computer, printers, or other equipment as directed.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to talk or hear; frequently required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms; and frequently required to stand, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color vision.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The incumbent in this position must remain current and informed on…