Maintenance Worker I

About The Position:

The Maintenance Worker I will perform a wide variety of skilled and semi-skilled tasks related to the maintenance and repair of City buildings and facilities, parks, grounds, open spaces, streets, sidewalks, sewers, and storm facilities; operates trucks and heavy equipment; utilizes a variety of hand and power tools and equipment; performs other duties as assigned. Supervision is received from the Public Works Maintenance Supervisor. Supervision is not exercised by this classification.

Duties include but are not limited to the following.

• Inspects assigned City area for safety issues and possible future work projects, and appropriately marks areas that need to be repaired; responds to emergency situations as required.
• Operates and maintains specialized vehicles and a variety of light, medium, and heavy equipment related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of parks and grounds, streets, or facilities.
• Operates a variety of hand and power tools and equipment related to work assignment as instructed; observes safe work methods and makes appropriate use of related safety equipment.
• Repairs and maintains public facilities, shop and garage areas, storage sites, and other work areas in a clean and orderly condition, including securing equipment upon completion of workday.
• Monitors City premises for graffiti vandalism; utilizes appropriate chemicals and high-pressure equipment to remove graffiti.
• Installs street barricades and cones and controls traffic around work sites, street closures, and special events to ensure safe conditions for the general public and City staff.
• Maintains accurate logs and records of work performed and materials and equipment utilized.
• Estimates quantities needed and recommended selection of materials, replacements, etc. for respective areas.
• Ensures staff compliance with City and mandated safety rules, regulations, and protocols.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

WHEN ASSIGNED TO:

Building Maintenance Division

• Installs, repairs, retrofits and maintains electrical wiring and equipment; replaces ballasts, fluorescent tubes, and bulbs; repairs broken pipes, cleaning clogged drains, diagnoses, repairs, and maintains valves, fittings, and other plumbing fixtures; repairs and builds furniture.
• Ensures proper physical appearance of park facilities, playground equipment, benches, lights, athletic fields, and ball courts; constructs or repairs walls, platforms, and ramps; installs doors; prepares various surfaces for paint, varnish, shellac, enamel, or other protective finishes.
• Performs custodial services at City facilities; cleans floors, restrooms, and removes trash sweeps, mops, scrubs, strips, polishes, waxes floor and cleans rugs and carpets;
• Organizes and stocks restrooms; washes walls, windows, mirrors, blinds and/or replaces windows; empties and cleans waste receptacles.
• Cleans and repairs pool facilities, including utilizing chemicals to treat water; makes adjustments and repairs to pool and auxiliary equipment.

Landscape Division

• Maintains City parks, open spaces and other City areas; mows, edges, weeds lawns, and other landscaped areas;
• Plants trees, stakes, and re-stakes trees; prunes, or trims hedges, trees, flowers, and shrubs; performs minor tree surgery work.
• Operates stump grinder, chipper, blowers, edgers, hedge trimmers, clippers, sprayers, and other equipment; repairs, installs, and maintains irrigation systems backflow devices, piping and sprinkler heads.

Street Division

• Installs, forms, pours, and finishes concrete to repair curbs, gutters, driveways, storm drains, and sidewalks; lays asphalt and cleans streets of debris performs street repairs and patching.
• Operates pickup and dump trucks, tractors, street sweepers, and other heavy maintenance equipment.

Experience:

One (1) year of experience in maintenance, construction, or building trades, preferably performing duties in landscaping and streets maintenance, painting, plumbing, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, carpentry, and electrical trades.

Education:

High School Diploma or equivalent.

Licenses and Certificates:

Possession of or ability to obtain a Class C California driver's license and a satisfactory driving record is required.

Additional Requirements:

Responds to emergency calls from the public and other agencies taking appropriate action such as placing barricades and other related emergency actions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

The physical demands and working conditions described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands:

• Perform physically demanding work.
• Required to talk and hear.
• Required to pull, push, stand, walk, sit, stoop, crouch, bend, crawl, climb, balance, and reach with both hands and arms.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds with assistance.
• Vision abilities to utilize close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:

• Regularly works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions including temperature extremes, inclement weather, and poor air quality.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and is subject to vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud.

Knowledge of:

Building Maintenance :

• Materials, tools, and methods used in general building repair and maintenance.
• Mechanical and electrical components.
• Paints and painting techniques; plumbing supplies and techniques.
• Basic carpentry.
• Locksmithing, heating and air conditioning maintenance.
• Custodial supplies and techniques.

Landscaping Division:

• Equipment, materials and methods used in planting and maintaining a variety of plants; plant growing conditions.
• Tree trimming and removal; aerial lift operations; turf irrigation systems.

Streets Division:

• Tools, equipment, materials, and safe methods of street maintenance work including cement and asphalt repair,
• Masonry, curb marking, street striping, and street sweeping.

Competencies:

• Teamwork Collaborating with others to achieve share goals.
• Developing Others Supporting others in stretching and expanding their capabilities.
• Informing Proactively obtaining and sharing information.
• Integrity and Ethics May understand rules and ethical guidelines.
• Safety Focus May establish and evaluate workplace safety and health policies, procedures, and priorities.
• Using Technology Working with electronic hardware and software applications.
• Continuous Learning Being responsible for developing ones career and competencies.
• Reading Comprehension Understanding and using written information.
• Oral Communication May organize thoughts on the fly.
• Attention to detail Focusing on the details of work content, work steps, and final work products.
• Environmental Exposure Tolerance Performing under physically demanding conditions
• Physical Ability Using strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and coordination.