Technician Pollution Control

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.
** Compensation:**$47,816.89 - $74,116.18
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* Job Description:

** The primary function of this position is to clean up illegal dump sites and rights-of-way throughout Monroe County. Additionally, it assists with emergency clean-ups, including those caused by hurricanes and tornadoes, as well as hauling operations.
** ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
*** Cleans illegal dump sites.
* Operates heavy equipment in the performance of daily duties.
* Mows grass and trims trees.
* Operates weed eater, chainsaw, etc., in the performance of daily duties.
* Prepares and processes recyclable products for shipping.
* Completes paperwork.
* Performs basic repair and maintenance of equipment.
* Prepares for upcoming storms.
* Cleans up storm debris after major storms.
* Ensures correct payment is being made for trash receptacles.
* Ensures that contractual services perform the required duties.
* Performs preventive maintenance on work truck.
* Segregates and stores household hazardous waste.
* Performs other related job duties as assigned.
* In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.
** QUALIFICATIONS
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* Education and Experience:

** High School Diploma or GED. Three (3) years minimum of prior related work experience.
** Special

Qualifications:

** Valid Florida Commercial Driver License (CDL).
** Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
*** Ability to work from a general outline of duties and responsibilities.
* Ability to perform technical or trades-based work that requires a solid understanding of basic algebra and statistics OR use of heavy equipment. Some of the tasks performed include participating in data collection and detailed analysis; reporting on the accomplishment of specific departmental goals and tasks; OR operating or repairing heavy equipment (bulldozers, cranes, graders).
* Ability to work in a responsive environment where co-workers or citizens bring problems for resolution; ability to determine problems and create individual solutions for issues.
* Ability to work with less than ten co-workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.
** PHYSICAL DEMANDS
** The work is heavy and 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. Additionally, 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.
* Grasping:
Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
* Handling:
Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
* Hearing:
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.
* 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.
* Manual Dexterity:
Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
* Mental Acuity:
Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
* Pulling:
Using upper…