Service Worker - Sewer Collections

Service Worker - Sewer

Employment Status: Full-Time

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Experience

Required:

Minimum one to two (1-2) years of related manual labor experience.

Minimum

Education Requirements:

High School graduation or G.E.D.

Department: Varies

Direct Supervisor: Division foreman.

Supervisory Responsibility: Direct (x);
Indirect (x)

Primary

Work Location:

Work is performed primarily outdoors.

Certification: Valid State of Florida driver's license, may be required to possess a valid Class "B" Commercial Florida Driver's License (within 6 months of hire), may require Florida Department of Environmental Protection Stormwater Erosion and Sedimentation Control Inspector (Streets & Stormwater only within 12 months of hire), Maintenance of Traffic (M.O.T.) Certification - Intermediate required (within 12 months of hire).

Job Summary: General manual labor related to field installation and repairs for utilities and/or parks projects.

Essential Job Functions

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential duties:

• Operate and perform preventative maintenance on various construction equipment including but not limited to hand tools, power tools, tamps quick cut saws, air hammers, mowers, etc.
• Perform heavy manual labor such as: digging, lifting, hauling, spraying, etc.
• Operate cement mixer and sets concrete formwork.
• Place, shovel, and finish concrete and asphalt.
• Drive vehicles and operates heavy and light equipment.
• Lay and repair water, sewer, and stormwater pipes and structures.
• Assist in installation and maintenance of irrigation systems.
• Perform landscape installation and maintenance.
• Mow athletic fields, parks, and recreation centers.
• Fertilize and treat grounds.
• Operate a tractor, front-end loader, and other equipment as required.
• Perform minor preventative and emergency maintenance on various kinds of equipment.
• Operate edger, blower, hedge trimmer, etc.; trims trees, bushes, and scrubs.
• Apply insecticide and herbicides.
• Perform repairs to picnic tables, benches, bleachers, and parking rails.
• Perform other job duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA's) for Position

An employee in this class must have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities upon application:

Knowledge

• General maintenance tasks and procedures.
• Landscaping, irrigation, maintenance, and installation.
• Construction terminology.
• Proper operation and maintenance of construction equipment.
• City's functions, policies, and procedures.

Skills

• Written and oral communications and skills.
• Minor carpentry maintenance tasks.
• Operation and preventative maintenance of equipment and related tools.
• Follow and relay oral and written instructions, policies and procedures.

Abilities

• Perform heavy manual labor under various weather conditions.
• Work with only general supervision or direction.
• Follow written and verbal instructions.
• Works in various weather conditions with exposure to dust, dirt, noise, chemicals, motorized, in confined spaces, and moving equipment.

Physical Demands

The work is heavy work which requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. The following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing:
  Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing:
  Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling:
  Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching:
  Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling:
  Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering:
  Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping:
  Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling:
  Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing 1:
  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Hearing 2:
  Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling:
  Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting:
  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity:
  Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling:
  Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a…