Trades Helper

Job Description - Trades Helper (240000VR)

Job Description

Description

Position Grade: 31T

Department:
Multiple Departments

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1190

Location:
St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for assisting journeyman trade workers in the performance of their duties.

• Assists journeyman trades workers such as electricians, machinists, plumbers, carpenters, ironworkers, sheet metal workers, welders and others as a helper.
• Loads and unloads tools, equipment, materials and supplies.
• Lifts and moves objects, stacks lumber, mixes concrete, provides supplies and materials to trades workers.
• May drive trucks and operate simple machinery.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Human Interaction:
  Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use:
  Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as trucks, overhead crane, common hand tools, shovels, rakes, wheelbarrow, hand carts and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as time sheets, regulations and general operating manuals.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Functional Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Involves semi-routine standardized work, with some latitude for independent judgment regarding choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties that may be subject to frequent change.
• Environmental Factors:
  Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
• Physical Requirements:
  
  Tasks involve the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling heavy objects and materials some which may weigh over one hundred (100) pounds.
• Sensory Requirements:
  Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors to identify materials, shapes to clearly distinguish objects and sounds to communicate with others.

Two years of experience assisting journeyman electricians, machinists, plumbers, carpenters or related skilled trade workers;
OR successful completion of a recognized two-year trades program which includes electrical, machinist, plumbing, carpentry or a related skilled trade from an accredited trade school or junior college (training program must be beyond the high school level);
OR two years of experience in highway construction, new building construction, water or sewer line construction;
OR two years of experience and current permanent status as a Utility Worker with the City of St. Louis;
OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver’s license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Some positions will require incumbents to obtain a Commercial Driver's License (Class

B) by completion of the working test period.

Experience and Training: 100%

May be Subject to:

Background Investigation:
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