Senior Maintenance Worker - Water Distribution

Overview

This position provides complex maintenance and repairs of City buildings, parks, athletic facilities, parking structures, public works (streets, sidewalks, curbs, plant facilities), and cemeteries.

• Assists an assigned crew; ensures the crew has adequate supplies to complete the assignment.
• Cleans offices, hallways, lunch and break rooms, meeting rooms, and stairways, including sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, buffing, and waxing floors; washing windows and mirrors; dusting furniture and fixtures; and emptying trash.
• Performs general grounds maintenance and landscaping duties: mows and edges grassy areas, trims hedges, prunes trees, pulls weeds, plants flowers, and spreads mulch.
• Maintains sprinklers; repairs broken pipes as needed.
• Replaces light fixtures and light bulbs.
• Transports vehicles to the city shop for routine maintenance and services as needed.
• Troubleshoots basic maintenance problems involving HVAC, electrical, structural, plumbing, and equipment repair or replacement; performs carpentry, painting, or related repair or installation.
• Performs concrete and asphalt repair of aircraft parking ramps, taxiways, runways, public and non-public roadways, parking lots, curbs, and sidewalks.
• Maintains landscaping, storm drainage, and irrigation systems; treats plants and turf for disease, installs and maintains backflow prevention devices; repairs or replaces fencing and security systems.
• Performs preventative and routine maintenance of pool operating systems; maintains proper operations of backwash and chlorination systems, boilers, and other operating systems; performs preventative maintenance on various pumps and motors.
• Monitors water quality and chemistry; sizes and replaces mechanical seals; installs and calibrates chlorination controllers; installs, repairs, or replaces a variety of pool equipment.
• Estimates cost of repairs; selects and requisitions necessary equipment and related supplies; oversees all work in progress to ensure quality, timeliness, and safety; inspects completed work to ensure quality and conformance to code.
• Provides maintenance and repair work and supervises a small work crew; assigns, reviews, and inspects work; guides task performance; trains and develops employees; provides input to employee performance appraisals; promotes and observes safe work practices.
• Prepares facilities for special events, including setting up meeting rooms, building stages, laying basketball courts, and setting up and breaking down show and event equipment.
• Prepares parks and athletic fields for special events, including assembling bleachers and picnic tables.
• Performs general maintenance duties; cleans the interior and exterior of the parking structure; sweeps the stairwell, empties trash cans, picks up litter, replaces light bulbs, blows leaves, cleans windows, and cleans restrooms.
• Cleans and maintains buildings, park and athletic facilities, including mowing grass, removing litter, cleaning streets, utilities, repairing fences, and other equipment.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requires a high school diploma or GED equivalent; less than one year of related maintenance experience is necessary.

Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license. Must have an acceptable driving history.

May require the following certifications/licenses:

• Confined Space Safety Certification
• ICS
  100 and ICS
  700
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Traffic control flagging certification

Knowledge of equipment and tools necessary to perform essential duties.

Knowledge of job-related safety hazards and precautionary methods.

Skills

• Skill in establishing priorities and organizing work.
• Skill in the operation of assigned vehicles and equipment.
• Skill in oral communication.

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
Work is performed under the close supervision of the Supervisor. The supervisor spot-checks completed work for compliance with instructions and established procedures, accuracy, and the nature and propriety of the final results.

GUIDELINES:
Guidelines include the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. These guidelines are generally clear and specific but may require some interpretation in application.

COMPLEXITY:
The work consists of related maintenance duties. Regular and repetitive tasks, processes, or operations requiring the selection and execution of actions based on defined procedures. Inclement weather and heavy traffic conditions contribute to the complexity of the position. SCOPE AND EFFECT:
The purpose of this position is to assist in the performance of traffic maintenance duties. Supportive, informational, recording, or other services to assist others in producing correct and effective results; minor consequences. Successful performance in this position contributes to the efficiency and safety of city roadways.

PERSONAL CONTACTS:
Little or no contact required except with immediate associates and direct supervisor. Contacts are typically with co-workers, other city employees, and members of the general…