Maintenance Aide

MAINTENANCE AIDE

Hourly (Part-Time; Non-Benefited) – Up to 28 hours/week. Salary starts at $19.98 per hour.

The City of Pico Rivera strives to support and enhance a high quality of life for residents, businesses and visitors by providing well‑planned, environmentally sensitive, cost‑effective infrastructure and services to promote public health, personal safety, and transportation.

The Public Works Department is responsible for the engineering, permitting, maintenance and operation of the City’s infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks, alleyways, public parking, traffic signals, and more. It also manages maintenance programs such as graffiti abatement, tree trimming, street sweeping, trash and recycling, parks and street maintenance, utilities and facilities maintenance, and a capital improvement program for roadway rehabilitation, signal coordination, and trail construction.

The City is seeking to fill multiple part‑time Maintenance Aide positions for various shifts within the Public Works Streets and Parks Maintenance Divisions. Under general supervision, the position assists in unskilled and semi‑skilled maintenance duties, which may include custodial service, landscape and park maintenance, street maintenance, and graffiti abatement. Candidates must be available for a flexible schedule including nights, early mornings, weekends, and holidays.

• Perform street maintenance, including asphalt repair and concrete construction.
• Perform grounds maintenance, including irrigation systems and facility repairs.
• Perform heavy physical labor.
• Remove trash and bulky items from alleyways, parkways, vacant lots, and City‑owned property.
• Plant, water, weed, trim, seed, and maintain shrubs, trees, and flower beds.
• Operate equipment including compressors, pressure washers, and paint sprayers.
• Interact with the public and private contractors.
• Operate hand and power tools.
• Inspect facilities for cleanliness and restock supplies.
• Clean, sweep, mop, scrub, wax, and polish floors and upholstery.
• Wash windows, walls, and other surfaces.
• Open, clean, stock, and sanitize restrooms at all City parks.
• Clean and maintain horse trails.
• Pressure wash walkways and picnic areas.
• Assist with ball and sports maintenance.
• Pick up and empty trash cans and other waste materials from all City parks.
• Pick up shopping carts, remove yard‑sale signs, and posters from public right‑of‑way.
• Assist with abatement of residential properties.
• Assist with City events, including traffic control, delivering materials, set‑up and clean‑up of facilities used for City events.
• Provide general customer service to members of the public as instructed.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

• Tools and procedures necessary to perform basic duties in street, grounds maintenance, and/or construction materials.
• Techniques and safety practices of routine maintenance work.

• Lift up to 50 pounds.
• Read, understand, verbalize, and carry out written and oral instructions.
• Work well with others and independently.
• Exercise judgment as needed without direct supervision.
• Bilingual in Spanish is desired.

• Holder of a high school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent.
• One (1) year of full‑time general maintenance work in facility, street, landscape, and park maintenance and construction.

Must possess a valid California Class C Driver’s License throughout employment.

Veterans credit of 10 points may be applied once a candidate has qualified for the eligibility list. Proof of service/honorable discharge must be submitted with application materials. Veterans who served on a full‑time basis for a minimum of six months qualify for the credit.

The position requires sitting, standing, walking on level and slippery surfaces, reaching, twisting, turning, kneeling, bending, stooping, squatting, crouching, grasping, and making repetitive hand movements. Work includes near and far vision, lifting, carrying, and pushing tools and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds or more. The role is outdoors in all weather conditions, may involve exposure to…