Maintenance Worker, Heavy Equipment Operator, Construction Labor ​/ Trades

Salary: $16.06 Hourly
Location : 223 Putnam County Boulevard - East Palatka, FL
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number: 26-007
Department: Public Works
Opening Date: 10/22/2025

General Description
This is full-time, hourly position that reports to a Crew Leader, or designee. The position performs unskilled and limited semi-skilled manual work in the performance of laboring tasks and a variety of construction and maintenance work.

Essential Job Functions
Essential Job Functions:

• Road repairs (asphalt, limerock, etc.). Installs road signs. Clears trees, brush, and vegetation from roadside. Removes and installs concrete.
• Loads and unloads heavy material from trucks. Moves equipment and large bulky objects. Performs custodial duties.
• Flags traffic on roads under repair.
• Maintains grounds. Rakes grass and water plants. Weeds flower beds. Shapes hedges and trims trees. Cuts grass. Plants and fertilizes flowers. May operate tractor-mower in mowing grass on right-of-way on a training basis.
• Loads trash on truck. Unloads trash and other material. Picks up boxes and other materials left by residents.
• Performs repair to equipment. Digs ditches.
• Operates gasoline or other powered machinery such as cement mixers, air hammers, compressors, pumping machinery, saws and etc.
• Performs manual laboring tasks as assigned.
• Required to assist with emergency support functions (ESF) during emergencies or other related emergency duties.

(These essential job functions are not to be construed as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job related marginal duties as required.)

Minimum Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of tools used in maintenance and construction work.
• Knowledge of occupational hazards connected with laboring work.
• Ability to perform manual labor.
• Ability to learn methods of operating and maintaining equipment and tools.
• Ability to follow, read, and understand written and oral instructions.
• Skill in using hand tools.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Completion of the eighth (8) grade.

(A comparable amount of training, education, or experience may be substituted for the above minimum qualifications.)

LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, OR REGISTRATIONS

• Ability to possess and maintain a valid Florida Driver's License.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL SKILLS

• Sufficient physical strength, agility, and freedom from disabling defects to perform heavy manual labor.
• Heavy lifting and carrying (45 pounds and over).
• Acceptable vision (with or without correction).
• Acceptable hearing (with or without hearing aid).
• Pulling, pushing, balancing.
• Walking, standing, kneeling, bending, stooping.
• Climbing a step ladder.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

• Works inside and outside in varying weather conditions.
• Exposure to dust and dirt.

(Reasonable accommodation will be made for otherwise qualified individuals with a disability or disabilities.)
An organization is only as good as the people it employs. To attract and retain the best team possible, the Putnam County Board of County Commissioners offers a competitive benefit program. We believe that if we expect our employees to support the County, we must first support the health and financial well-being of our employees and their families today, and as they plan for their future.

Below is a summary of the County Benefits for full-time employees:
CORE BENEFITS

• Medical/Health Insurance

• Employee Life Insurance (up to $50,000)

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Florida Retirement System

• Employee Assistance Program

OPTIONAL BENEFITS

• Supplemental & Dependent Life Insurance

• Deferred Retirement Program (ICMA, Nationwide, & Valic)

• Flexible Spending Accounts - Putnam County pays the monthly administrative fees.

• Tuition Assistance Program - Subject to budgetary constraints.
FLORIDA RETIREMENT SYSTEM (FRS) The Florida Retirement System is a retirement plan designed to provide an income to a vested employee and his/her family when the employee retires, becomes partially or totally disabled, or dies prior to retirement. A defined benefit or defined contribution option may be chosen by the employee.

TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (for Board of County Commissioner employees only) Regu…