Part Time Maintenance Worker

The City of Pismo Beach is hiring a part-time Maintenance Worker. This position will work approximately 19–20 hours/week; weekends and holidays may be required.

Cleaning city facilities and restrooms, emptying trash cans, picking up trash, and performing basic maintenance tasks throughout the City.

We’re looking for a reliable and self-motivated individual who takes initiative, is hard-working, and comfortable working outdoors in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.

If you take pride in your work and want to help keep our community clean and welcoming, we encourage you to apply today.

Under direct or general supervision, performs a variety of work in the construction, modification, maintenance, beautification, and repair of City infrastructure, including streets, traffic controls and structures, storm drains, parks, landscapes, the City pier, beaches, and facilities. Provides assistance with set-up and removal of equipment and facilities at special events and uses and operates a variety of manual and power tools and light to heavy power driven equipment.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

Typical duties include but are not limited to: emptying trash cans, picking up trash, cleaning City facilities (tables, benches, bathrooms, etc.), painting, and maintenance of the City's Pier and other infrastructure and assets.

• Performs construction, cleaning, maintenance, and repair activities of City streets and roadways, pier, and beaches to ensure safe and efficient access for the public, including alleys, sidewalks, storm drains, curbs and gutters, and beach access stairways.
• Assists in asphalt maintenance; demolishes and prepares areas to be resurfaced; applies appropriate materials to the surface and cleans up areas.
• Participates in the sealing of cracks; cleans and prepares surfaces with the appropriate equipment and applies crack sealing material and applicable chemicals to the surface.
• Participates in concrete maintenance; attends to trip hazards, demolishes and removes concrete, and forms, pours, and finishes sidewalks, handicap ramps, curbs, and gutters.
• Provides installation, maintenance, and repair of traffic signs; creates signs and installs sign posts and signs in accordance with Federal, State, and City codes; trims vegetation around signs.
• Performs various beach and pier maintenance functions; cleans, rakes, sanitizes, and removes deceased marine life; repairs and/or replaces lifeguard towers, steps, rails, landings, and supports.
• Inspects City premises for graffiti vandalism and uses appropriate chemicals and high-pressure equipment to remove graffiti.
• Performs legend painting and striping of City streets and parking lots using appropriate materials.
• Installs street barricades and cones and controls traffic around work sites and special events to ensure safe conditions for the general public and City workers.
• Performs a variety of weed abatement duties to eliminate hazards to vehicles and pedestrians as necessary.

• Performs construction, maintenance, and repair activities of City parks to ensure safe and efficient access for the public; performs work on park facilities and buildings, sports fields, open spaces, recreation trails, landscapes, playgrounds and equipment, irrigation systems and controllers, rodent control, and weed abatement.
• Performs turf maintenance duties; provides watering, mowing, weeding, trimming, aerating, renovating, and fertilizing turf.
• Performs shrub and flower bed maintenance; plants, waters, fertilizes, and maintains landscaped areas such as bushes, trees, flowers, and shrubs; performs weed abatement using a chemical sprayer.
• Trims and prunes bushes, trees, and shrubs to provide clearance of sidewalks and signs, as well as to ensure the continued health of the bush, tree, or shrub.
• Performs tree trimming and removal services; prunes branches, grinds tree stumps to ground level, and removes trees safely and efficiently; removes fallen trees, stumps, fallen limbs, and related debris resulting from storm damage and general conditions.
• Performs a variety of duties in the maintenance and repair of the irrigation system; changes and adjust sprinkler heads; maintains controllers; designs modifications to and performs irrigation…