Part-Time Street Maintenance Technician

Position Summary

Under direct supervision, the Maintenance/Driver I performs routine and repetitive task to construct, maintain and repair the City’s streets, roads, bridges, medians, right of ways, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, drainage system, and other public areas or related duties as required within the City’s limits.

• Regular and timely attendance at work
• Cleans, repairs, and maintains roads, bridges, medians, right of ways, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, drainage system, and other public areas within the City’s limits.
• 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 potholes and overlaying of streets; sealing cracks in asphalt and concrete; remove and replace concrete to include form setting to finishing; cutting brush, trees; mowing and weed‑eating high grass and weeds; and maintaining, cleaning around street intersections and medians.
• Paint curbs including curb numbers
• Operates, repairs, and maintains vehicles and various light equipment and tools such as tractors, mowers, front end and back end loaders, bucket trucks, augers, maintainers, jackhammers, skill saws; drills; bolt cutters; rollers, dump trucks, and etc.
• 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.
• Adheres to departmental, personnel, and safety rules and regulations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the Street Department Superintendent.

• Knowledge of basic hand tools
• Street construction and maintenance experience preferred
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse environment in extreme situations.
• Ability to pass required physical and drug screen

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Valid Texas Driver’s License

Essential Position: N/A

This is not a position that is essential to the provision of emergency services during and/or following a disaster.

• Must be able to exercise good judgment; make competent decisions; handle multiple projects; meet deadlines; and work well under pressure and stress.
• To perform the essential functions of the job, must be able to talk, read, see, walk, and hear; operate maintenance equipment; follow oral and written directives; perform strenuous physical activities to include, exerting up to 50 lbs of pressure, lifting heavy objects, shoveling, crawling, bending, kneeling, climbing on and off equipment, and operating vibrating equipment.
• Must also have good hand/foot/eye coordination to operate equipment; able to lift up to 50 lbs of equipment several times a day; work indoors, underground, outdoors, in confined spaces, in trenches, on level, slippery, sloping, unstable and muddy terrain, and under constantly noisy conditions; and work in adverse environmental conditions to include inclement weather such as rain, sleet, snow, heat, sun exposure, dust/mist and hazardous conditions such as street traffic;
  
  and exposure to insects, noxious plants, snakes, paints and chemicals.
• Must maintain an effective and pleasant working relationship with coworkers, supervisors, and the general public at all times.

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility. It should not be considered an all‑inclusive list of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other divisional areas to cover for absences, to equalize work during peak periods and/or otherwise balance workload.