Maintenance Laborer; Seasonal

Join the City of Napa as a Maintenance Laborer (Seasonal Extra Help)!

Are you looking for a hands-on role where your work makes a real impact? The City of Napa's Public Works and Utilities departments are seeking dependable and hardworking individuals to join our Street Maintenance or Water Distribution Divisions as Seasonal Extra Help Maintenance Laborers. You’ll be out in the field helping maintain streets or water infrastructure - essential systems that keep our community safe, accessible, and functioning every day.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working outdoors, staying active, and seeing the tangible results of their efforts. You’ll gain valuable skills while directly supporting the day-to-day operations that keep Napa’s streets, utilities, and public spaces in top condition.

Qualified applicants will have a record of demonstrating the following competencies:

• Adaptability:
  Maintaining efficiency during change in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• Safety Focus:
  Identifying and improving conditions that affect own and others’ safety; upholding safety standards.

• Customer Focus:
  Ensuring that the customer’s perspective is a driving force behind priorities and decisions; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.
• Collaborating:
  Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.

• 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM (weekdays with rotating days off)

• 6:30 AM – 4:00 PM (weekdays with rotating days off)
• 4:00 AM – 12:30 PM (weekdays)

Part-Time Extra Help positions are not to exceed 1,000 hours in a fiscal year (July 1 - June 30). Temporary and part-time employees are at-will and not covered by the Civil Service System. Some benefits for temporary employees include sick leave, temporary employee retirement plan, and 3.5% bilingual pay if applicable.

• Assist in the maintenance tasks associated with the care of grounds, landscaping, trees, facilities, parking areas, streets, water, storm drains and electrical utilities.
• Cleans and removes debris and litter from parks, landscapes, facilities, parking lots, streets, gutters, storm drains, catch basins, drainage ditches, sidewalks, and street construction sites by shoveling, raking, sweeping, and picking up debris.
• May operate vehicles, and light equipment and power tools necessary to complete maintenance for the above assigned areas.
• Assists in breaking up pavement, digging holes, cutting trenches, excavating and filling in holes in streets, pathways and other paved surfaces, chipping, using sledge hammer, shovel, pick, spade, rake, hoe, hand tools or jackhammer as directed.
• Assist in loading, transporting, and unloading equipment, materials, debris, and other heavy objects related to maintenance.
• Assists in setting up traffic control including signs and barricades, and acts as flag person to direct traffic around work sites.
• Helps repair and maintain fences, playground equipment, gates, doors, roofs, walks and walkways, sidewalks and gutters using hammer, saws, paint brushes and appropriate hand tools, spade, pick, hoe, shovels, tamper and jack hammer as directed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Functions, characteristics and proper use and care of common hand tools and safe work practices.

Be trained in the use of supplies, tools and equipment used in the work areas as described above in a variety of weather conditions. Basic skills in following simple oral and written instructions; skills in performing manual work, lifting heavy objects up to 90 pounds; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other persons.

Possession of a California Class C Driver's License.

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