Maintenance Worker - Construction (50101)

General Description:

The purpose of this class within the organization is to work on a crew performing general labor duties and maintenance for a department.

This class works under close supervision according to set procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions or change functions.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Performs unskilled and limited semi-skilled tasks of a physically demanding nature.
2. Works as a member of a storm maintenance crew doing such jobs as raking and picking up leaves, breaking pavement, pouring and shoveling asphalt, raking, temping, and smoothing asphalt.
3. Digs out holes with manual and automatic digging tools; fills depressions with slag, gravel, or other materials; acts as a road crew worker on construction or repair projects.
4. Operates trucks, air compressors, pumps, and related light public works equipment as a necessary part of normal duties; does concrete work; assists in installing signs, markers, benches, etc.
5. Performs all other duties as may be assigned to meet organizational needs.

Additional Duties:

Performs vehicle inspections prior to beginning a route and again after a route is completed.

Ensures assigned equipment are in clean and in working order, maintains uniforms, safety equipment and assigned tools.

Assists in grading ditches and in laying/repairing pipe; performs concrete and asphalt work.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the types and uses of common hand tools, materials, and standard equipment used in general maintenance, construction, and repair.
• Knowledge of the precautions necessary to work safely with and around mechanized construction and maintenance equipment.
• Willingness and ability to obtain and maintain a Commercial Driver's License within six months of employment.
• Ability to understand and carry out specific oral or written instructions.
• Ability to perform manual tasks involving physical strength and endurance under variable weather conditions.
• Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations or tight deadlines.
• Ability to maintain positive customer-focused relationships with co-workers, supervisors, agencies, the general public, and all other internal and external customers. Personally demonstrates appropriate customer service skills.
• Work is performed onsite. The incumbent must be present at work to perform the essential functions of this job.

Data Responsibility:

Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.

Compares or inspects data, people, or things against a standard.

People Responsibility:

People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.

Serves others such as customers, attends to their requests and exchanges information with them.

Asset Responsibility:

Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.

Requires some responsibility for achieving minor economies and/or preventing minor

losses through the handling of or accounting for materials, supplies or small amounts of money.

Mathematical Requirements:

Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.

Uses addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and/or calculates ratios, rates and percents.

Communications Requirements:

Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak.

Reads routine sentences, instructions, regulations, procedures or work orders; writes routine sentences and completes routine job forms and incident reports; speaks routine sentences using proper grammar.

Judgment Requirements:

Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.

Responsible for guiding others, requiring a few decisions, affecting the individual and a few co-workers; works in a stable environment with clear and uncomplicated written/oral instructions, but with some variations from the routine.

Complexity of Work:

Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration and creativity, required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.

Performs semi-skilled work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.

Impact of Errors:

Impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals.

The impact of errors is moderately serious – affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.

Physical Demands:

Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.

Performs medium to heavy work that involves walking, standing, stooping, lifting, digging, pushing and raising objects and also involves exerting between 20 to 50 pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis and 50 to 100 pounds of force on an occasional basis.

Equipment Usage:

Equipment usage involves responsibility for materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products.

Handles or uses tools, equipment or work aids involving some latitude for judgment regarding attainment of a standard or in selecting appropriate items.

Unavoidable Hazards:

Unavoidable hazards refer to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.

Involves routine and frequent exposure to traffic; moving machinery.

Safety of Others:

Safety of others refers to the level of responsibility for the safety of others, either inherent in the job or to ensure the safety of the general public. (Does not include safety of subordinates).

Requires some responsibility for safety and health of others and/or for occasional enforcement of the standards of public safety or health.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires High School graduation or GED equivalent.

Requires six months in general labor work or closely related experience.

Experience in laboring work, including the use of tools and equipment used in maintenance and repair of streets and water and sewer lines.

Prior construction experience is strongly preferred.

An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered.

Special Certifications and Licenses:

A valid Driver's License is required.

Valid Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and current DOT Medical Card required, or the ability to obtain at the conclusion of the Introductory Period.

Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance

The City of Rock Hill, SC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires City of Rock Hill, SC to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or believe that you do and need information about reasonable accommodations, please contact the ADA Compliance Officer at 329-5570.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. The task is actually required for the employees currently performing the job.
2. The nature and purpose of the job would significantly change if the task was not required.
3. The task is the sole requirement of the main purpose of the job.
4. There are no other employees available to perform the task.
5. It would be difficult to shift this task due to the small number of other employees available to perform the task.