Mosquito Control Specialist

Overview

Protect public health and enjoy hands-on work outdoors as part of the City of Baytown’s Mosquito Control team. In this role, you’ll operate specialized equipment to reduce mosquito populations, eliminate breeding sites, and help keep neighborhoods, parks, and waterways safe and livable. If you like working independently, operating heavy and specialized equipment, and making a visible impact in the community, this is meaningful work with a clear purpose.

Join a team that plays a critical role in disease prevention and quality of life for Baytown residents.

• Responsible for performing skilled operations of several types of equipment used to apply mosquito control pesticides from city streets, right of ways, ditches, storm drains, unimproved areas that hold water or are impacted by tidal water. Operate and load equipment such as a truck, a trailer, an Argo (amphibious vehicle), a larvicide misting system, and use equipment such as ULV sprayers, backpack sprayers, agricultural spreader, as well as assorted hand tools.
  
  Work involves responsibility for efficient use of such equipment. Duties include performance of manual labor associated with loading and unloading mosquito control pesticides and supplies.
• Sprays the public streets, right of ways, and City parks of the City of Baytown for adult mosquito population control. Apply larvicide and survey areas to eliminate breeding sites such as ditches, storm drains, areas that hold rainwater that becomes stagnant, and brackish/salt marshes impacted by tidal flow. Document daily spray and larvicide activities as required by State requirements, which include chemical quantity used, area sprayed or treated, weather conditions, as well as mileage.
  
  Must be able to mix and load chemicals onto the spray trucks. Maintain a chemical storage room, garage, and spill kits. Inspect, identify, treat, and document mosquito breeding locations. Conduct neighborhood surveys for mosquito breeding sites. Identify, trap, and document the different species of mosquitoes. Perform daily and weekly general maintenance of the spray units and the mosquito control trucks.
  
  Service and maintain spray equipment as required by State requirements. Educate and inform citizens on the lifecycle of mosquitoes, diseases transmitted, and methods of source reduction. Respond to mosquito complaints. Work a flexible schedule during the mosquito control season and may be required to work overtime and work split shifts during the spray season.
• Controls the mosquito population through application of pesticides and elimination of breeding sites by operating all mosquito control equipment such as truck mounted ULV sprayer and larvicide misting system, Argo (amphibious vehicle), agricultural spreader, handheld sprayers, backpack sprayers, and manual dispersion of pesticides as needed. Sprays storm drains to eliminate and control mosquito population.
• Performs daily and weekly general maintenance and calibration of the ULV (ultra-low volume) spraying units, the mosquito control truck, and cleaning of the chemical storage area and garage.
• Performs all transfers and mixing of chemicals and washing operations on the emptied barrels.
• Surveys for landing rates of adult mosquitoes and mosquito breeding sites. Takes action to document, treat or eliminate the breeding site.
• Educates and informs the public of the health threat mosquitoes may cause and how to reduce their populations.
• Identifies and maps known mosquito breeding sites and potential sites using GPS instrumentation.
• Assists with general Health Department duties during mosquito off-season.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED).
• Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record (must obtain TX driver’s license within 90 days).
• Six months of related experience.
• Certified State of Texas Pesticide Applicator; category:
  Vector Control within one year of employment.

• Knowledge of chemical flow pumps and electric control systems.
• Previous experience with the safe handling of pesticides.
• Knowledge of the Baytown area.

• Ability to…