Maintenance Worker - Temporary​/Part-Time

Under direct or general supervision, performs a variety of work in the construction, modification, maintenance, repair and operation of City infrastructure, including streets, traffic controls and structures, parks, landscapes, and street trees; may obtain meter readings; and performs related work as required.

Receives direct or general supervision and/or technical and functional direction from assigned supervisory or management personnel. May exercise technical and functional direction over assigned staff.

Initially under close supervision, incumbents with basic maintenance experience learn City infrastructure, systems, and facilities, use of tools and equipment, and a wide variety of practices and procedures. As experience is gained, assignments become more varied and are performed with greater independence. This class is distinguished from Senior Maintenance Worker in that the latter is responsible for technical and functional direction over lower-level utility maintenance staff and is capable of performing the most complex duties assigned to the division.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

• Operates specialized vehicles and a variety of light, medium, and heavy equipment related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of City streets and related facilities.
• Provides for the maintenance and repairs of City streets and roadways, including shoveling and spreading asphalt in patching, painting and striping, repairing, and reconstructing streets.
• Provides installation, maintenance, and repair of traffic signs, including making signs, and installing sign posts and signs in accordance with City, State, and Federal Codes.
• Performs a variety of duties in the maintenance of drainage structures to ensure efficient drainage, including inspecting, repairing, and replacing patrol tide areas, and opening and closing tide valves along assigned routes.
• Performs a variety of weed abatement duties to eliminate hazards to vehicles and pedestrians as necessary.
• Maintains City alleys to ensure safe and efficient access for the public.
• Installs street barricades and cones to ensure safe conditions for the public and City workers.
• Maintains and repairs City parking meters.

• Performs a variety of technical landscape construction duties, including planting flowers, shrubs, and trees, pruning and repairing damaged trees, making and repairing tree wells, irrigating, mowing, and fertilizing turf, trimming and planting, fertilizing, and pruning shrubs.
• Inspects, maintains, repairs, and constructs developed and undeveloped parks, playgrounds, athletic and other related facilities and properties.
• Performs pesticide applications as required, including calculating proper amounts of pesticides, spraying parks, trails, landscapes, and street trees, and completing necessary paperwork.
• Operates specialized vehicles and heavy equipment related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of City parks, landscapes, and street trees, and related facilities, such as aerial lift trucks.
• Installs, inspects and maintains park equipment and grounds to ensure safe operating conditions for citizens, including making repairs.
• Maintains parks and landscapes in a clean and safe condition,…