Stormwater Quality Seasonal Maintenance Worker

Job Summary

This position is for a seasonal assignment limited up to six months from date of hire.

Make an impact:

Join a dedicated team to help keep Salem clean and beautiful. This position involves maintaining nearly 500 Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) facilities and hundreds of acres of natural areas that capture stormwater runoff and improve the flows into our streams.

Learn and grow:

This position offers the chance to dive into the world of stormwater regulations and systems. Gain valuable skills while learning how to properly maintain GSI facilities and natural areas.

What you will do:

* Routine Maintenance:
Perform weeding, trash removal, planting, and minor irrigation system repairs to keep facilities in shape.

* Using Tools and Equipment:
Use hand tools like shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, and operate larger equipment such as mowers, edgers and power hand tools.

* Teamwork:
Work closely with the Green Stormwater Infrastructure section's career maintenance operators, Natural Infrasturcture Specialist, contracted landscapers, and Marion County Adults in Custody (AIC) work crews. Collaborate on tasks to make sure GSI facilities are well-maintained.

* Plant Care:
Provide care for plants in stormwater facilities by watering, pruning, and removing dead vegetation. Identify commonly planted species. Identifies invasive and noxious weeks; removes invasive and noxious weeks and applies integrated pest management practices to prevent spread of weeks through planning and proper disposal.

* Repair and Rehabilitation:
Assist in the repairing, rehabilitating, and rebuilding of stormwater quality facilities.

* Landscape Maintenance:
Perform other landscaping maintenance functions as assigned to ensure stormwater facilities operate as designed. This includes replacing or replenishing soil, leveling treatment areas, mitigating erosion and channelization issues, repairing minor concrete issues, clearing blockages, and loosening compacted soil.

* Record Keeping:
Maintain detailed records of work using the City's asset management system and tools like iPads, cell phones, and laptops.

* Customer Service:
Offer friendly assistance to anyone with questions about maintenance work or stormwater facilities.

Additional information on job responsibilities:

* Maintains regular attendance.

* Operates a motor vehicle safely and legally.

Work Schedule:

The Work schedule for this position is Monday through Thursday 6:00 am-4:30 pm. Working during all weather conditions, including extreme weather events is required for this position.

What can we offer you for all your hard work?

* Competitive pay.

The City of Salem offers a comprehensive and equitable base salary within the listed range based on your experience, skills, and education. We encourage you to clearly describe how you meet the minimum qualifications and essential attributes in your application materials. Learn more about Equal Pay.

What are the minimum qualifications?

* Must pass the pre-employment background check.

* Must have an Oregon Driver's license and meet the City of Salem's driving standards.

* General maintenance, restoration, repair, grounds keeping, construction trade or other manual labor experience.

Hiring managers do not have access to view resumes as part of the application review process, please make sure to give detailed information in your application that includes your experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as requested in the supplemental questions and job advertisement.

What you will bring along:

* Knowledge on how to use common landscape tools safely and effectively.

* The ability to operate large trucks and pull trailers.

* Understanding of occupational hazards in the workplace and the precautions necessary to stay safe.

* Respect towards others, along with an enthusiasm to understand and value individual differences to help create a diverse and inclusive workplace.

* Positive attitude and skills in providing great customer service.

* Commitment to safe work practices.

* Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with coworkers, employees, officials, and the public.

About us:

The City of Salem is the second largest City in the State of Oregon, located in the heart of Willamette Valley, and is the capital city of Oregon with a population over 170,000. Centrally located, Salem is 47 miles south of Portland and an hour from the Cascade Mountains to the east and an hour from the ocean beaches to the west.

Salem is an exceptional community for living and working with exciting new and comfortable well-established neighborhoods and carefully preserved historic buildings.

A full-service City, Salem has eight primary departments:

Community Services, Finance, Fire, Enterprise Services, Legal, Police, Public Works, and Community and Urban Development. Several departments also have functional divisions within their department. The City has five labor unions and employs roughly 1,350 talented and dedicated staff members. The Urban Renewal…