Senior Maintenance Worker-Street Services

Job Title

Public Works Street Maintenance Worker

Public Works is currently hiring for several essential positions that play a critical role in maintaining the Town's infrastructure. To help fill these important vacancies, the Town has approved both a Sign-On Incentive Program and an Employee Referral Incentive Program.

Sign-On Incentive – $1,500

The $1,500 Sign-On Incentive is available for newly hired Public Works employees (excluding Administrative Staff).

Key details:

• Paid on the employee's first paycheck following hire.
• Limited to one sign-on incentive per employee while the program is in effect.
• Employees who leave Town employment within 90 days must repay $750.
• Incentives are paid through payroll and are subject to applicable taxes.

Employee Referral Incentive – $1,500

Help us recruit great candidates and earn extra income!

For eligible Public Works positions (excluding Administrative Staff), employees may receive:

• $500 when the referred employee is hired.
• $1,000 after the referred employee successfully completes six months of employment.
• $1,500 total incentive.

Additional information:

• Applicants must identify the referring employee on their employment application for the referral to qualify.
• Incentives are paid through payroll and are subject to applicable taxes.

• Cleans, repairs, and maintains roads, bridges, medians, right of ways, alleys, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and other public areas within the Town.
• Performs routine and repetitive physical strenuous tasks such as hand working asphalt and concrete as it is placed; loading and unloading trucks; laying pipelines and repairing manholes; patching pot holes and overlaying of streets; sealing cracks in asphalt and concrete; remove and replace concrete to include form setting to finishing; reading grades and setting grade stakes; assisting in surveying; cutting brush, trees;

mowing and weed-eating high grass and weeds; and maintaining, cleaning around street intersections, medians and alleys.
• Operates, repairs and maintains vehicles and various light equipment and tools such as tractors, mowers, front end and back-end loaders, heavy trenchers, bucket trucks, augers, maintainers, jackhammers, skill saws, drills, bolt cutters, pothole patchers, rollers, dump trucks, 1 ton to 5 ton vehicles, etc. Primary responsibility of operation, repair and maintenance of light equipment in absence of equipment operator.
• Works safely when working in close proximity to high-speed vehicle traffic areas, along medians, and right-of-ways.
• Identifies and informs supervisor of potential hazards, liability exposures, problem areas, public inquiries of the general public, and the status of work activities.
• Conducts daily inspections and preventative maintenance measures of vehicles, equipment, and tools such as washing, checking safe and proper operation, and servicing.
• Assists other departments and performs other duties, as needed.
• Adheres to departmental, personnel, and safety rules and regulations.
• Adheres to stand-by schedule as assigned for emergency repairs at night and weekends.
• Trains other employees in operation, repair and safety techniques of standard construction equipment and in daily job duties and responsibilities.
• Assists other coworkers as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) is required.
• Must have a valid state issued Class "C" Drivers License.
• Must be able to obtain a valid Texas Class "A" Commercial Driver's License, with proper endorsements and without restrictions, within six (6) months from the date of hire. Your driving record must be in compliance with Town policy.
• Street maintenance (concrete and asphalt) repair or construction work experience is required.
• Light to heavy construction equipment operation experience is required. Physical Abilities The physical abilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
* Must be able to talk, read, see, walk, hear, and follow oral and written directives. Must also…