Senior Solid Waste Maintenance Worker

RECRUITMENT OVERVEW - Join Our Team As A Senior Solid Waste Maintenance Worker

Are you an experienced maintenance professional ready to take on a vital role in keeping our city safe, clean, and running smoothly? We are looking for a skilled, hardworking Senior Solid Waste Maintenance Worker to join our team.

This journey-level role offers stable work, hands-on variety, and the opportunity to make a visible impact on the community every single day. If you have mechanical aptitude, a strong work ethic, and a Class B CDL, we want to hear from you!

• Stable, Essential Career
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  Work in a critical public service role with dependable hours and a consistent schedule.
• Hands-On Variety
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  No two days are the same. You will switch between welding, heavy equipment operation, vehicle maintenance, and community field interactions.
• Community Impact
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  Play a direct role in maintaining the safety, cleanliness, and beauty of city streets and neighborhoods.

• Maintain & Repair
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  Perform routine to complex maintenance on solid waste bins, vehicles, and equipment, including welding, painting, and replacing parts.
• Inspect & Service
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  Conduct preventative maintenance on fleet and keep the solid waste yard organized.
• Operate Heavy Equipment
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  Safely navigate and operate dump trucks, skip loaders, and forklifts.
• Community Service
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  Deliver and exchange residential containers, clear illegal dumping sites, and resolve customer service inquiries with tact and professionalism.
• Lead by Example
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  Maintain detailed daily activity logs, ensure strict adherence to safety protocols, and help train lower-level crew members.

The City of Tulare is a vibrant and steadily growing community with a population of 70,693 located in the heart of California's Central Valley. The organization, staffed with 402 full-time employees, enjoys a culture of fiscal conservatism, collaboration, teamwork and dedication to public service and our community.

We are currently recruiting to fill one immediate vacancy and an eligible list will also be established to fill future vacancies in this classification for a period of up to six months.

To be considered for this outstanding career opportunity applicants must submit a detailed application with detailed information in each section of the application:
Education, Work Experience, Certificates and Licenses, and Skills. In addition to submitting a detailed application, applicants are required to respond to the supplemental questions associated with the application. Responses to the supplemental questions will be used to help us evaluate applicants’ qualifying knowledge, skills, and abilities. Resumes may be attached but will not be accepted in lieu of a complete, detailed application or in lieu of detailed responses to the supplemental questions.

Under general supervision, cleans and performs routine to complex maintenance and repair of bins, vehicles, and equipment; cleans and maintains solid waste yard; delivers and picks up bins and containers; and performs related work as required.

Receives technical and functional direction and training from the Solid Waste Crew Leader and general supervision from the Solid Waste Supervisor. No supervision of staff is exercised.

This is the journey-level class in the solid waste maintenance worker series that performs the full range of duties required to ensure that City is maintained in a safe and clean condition and provides the highest level of safety for public use. Responsibilities include performing a wide variety of tasks in the maintenance and repair of vehicles, tools, and equipment. This class is distinguished from Solid Waste Crew Leader in that the latter is responsible for technical and functional direction over lower-level solid waste operations staff and is capable of performing the most complex duties assigned to the division.

Management reserves the rights to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the…