Streets Maintenance Operator; SBP

Step into a role where your expertise keeps our city moving. As part of our Skills Based Pay (SBP) advancement series, you’ll contribute to the safety, quality, and reliability of the City’s public infrastructure while advancing your skills through our Skills Based Pay (SBP) program. This role offers hands‑on work, professional growth, and a meaningful connection to the community you serve.

If you are selected for interviews, they will take place in person on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, so please hold that date.

The successful candidate should have a strong background in municipal operations in the field of streets maintenance. The candidate must have a good understanding of best maintenance practices, strong technical skills, safety oriented, and able to pursue solutions to challenging problems. They should be well versed in all trades performed by the program such as asphalt, concrete, and traffic control.

In addition to adequate field experience, the candidate must be able to work within City policy and capable of operating different software platforms. They must have the ability to communicate effectively and positively, while maintaining a high standard of professionalism.

Lastly, a calm demeanor will be essential when dealing with the public and staff in emergency situations, as this position plays an active role in storm patrol and emergency response.

This classification is a "Skills Based Pay" (SBP) advancement series which performs a variety of semi‑skilled, skilled, and highly specialized functions in street maintenance, and operates and maintains related equipment. Positions in this classification have primary responsibility for maintaining the public street system, including pavement, sidewalks, drainage facilities, signage and pavement markings. Positions in this classification may perform work independently, or as part of a crew with other maintenance staff or staff outside the section or department.

Positions in this classification are responsible for the successful completion of a wide variety of specialized work projects, from routine to complex maintenance duties. Employees in this position generally provide front line work and response for street maintenance, and are responsible for the performance of the full range of the classification's tasks and duties in accordance with standard operating procedures and safety practices.

Each employee in this Skills Based Pay classification has the opportunity to advance within the class to the highest step. Individual employees pursue career development through work, training, and certifications, to gain leadership skills, and become highly skilled in the street maintenance field. This job class starts at an entry level classification. As knowledge, background, and skills increase, promotion to the next higher level step may be reasonably expected.

Such advancement is based on attainment and ongoing use of the required knowledge, skills, and abilities, as defined through the skills based pay criteria matrix.

Employees in this classification receive supervision within the framework of standard policies and procedures, and in accordance with the level of independence identified in the skills based pay matrix. Employees in this position exercise independent judgment in the selection of work means, methods, and procedures.

Employees in the upper levels of this classification will monitor and direct the work of others in a lead or oversight capacity as needed to accomplish specific projects as assigned, and oversee contract maintenance work managed by their section, or in the implementation of specific maintenance programs.

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