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Laborer - Streets & Drainage

Pay Grade: \$15.62 23.18 per hour

SUMMARY

The Laborer assists with the repair and maintenance of the City streets and right of

ways by performing manual labor. Position is deemed seasonal, essential personnel,

and safety sensitive.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the

following Essential Duties satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to

enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of the

position:

Assists with removing and disposing of brushes, limbs, and trees from right of

ways. (cut, chip, burn)

Assists with patching potholes with asphalt.

Assists with mowing ditches and right-of-ways.

Assists with cleaning catch basins, curbs, and gutters.

Assists with trimming bushes, weeds, and trees at intersections and from right of

ways.

Assists with operating hand and power tools to make street repairs.

Assists with operating a jackhammer and compressor to loosen materials for

removal from areas being repaired.

Assists with loading salt to spreader on truck as needed.

Assists with transporting and secures materials used to support walls of ditches.

Assists with constructing forms for pouring concrete.

Assists with shoveling gravel and other fill or surfacing materials from truck to

areas being repaired.

Assists with setting up signage and markers for street repair or closings.

Aids in traffic control during street repairs.

Assists in concrete maintenance work. (street, curb, tile)

Assists in replacing and repairing signs and poles throughout the city.

Assists in preparing streets for paving, seals streets, and compacts asphalt mats.

Assists in cleaning and replacing culverts, drains, ditches and bridges.

Reports any matters of concern regarding vehicles or equipment to Streets &

Drainage Director and Assistant Director.

Performs other duties as necessary or assigned.

This job description and the enumerated Essential Duties are intended to provide

general guidelines for job expectations and the employees ability to perform the

position described. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all functions,

responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be

assigned or assumed by the incumbent as necessary to fulfill the requirements of the

position.

ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The employee frequently works

outside in adverse weather conditions, and in an office environment with exposure to

fumes, dust, toxic, or caustic chemicals. Seasonally, employee will be subject to working

in mild temperatures to extreme heat. The position requires regularly driving a

motorized vehicle.

The position involves speaking, listening, lifting, carrying, seeing (such as close, color

and peripheral vision, depth perception and adjusted focus), sitting, pulling, walking,

standing, squatting, kneeling, and reaching.

The incumbent for this position may operate any or all the following: telephone,

personal computer, printers, or other equipment as directed.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to

talk or hear; frequently required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms; and frequently

required to stand, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must

occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by

this job include close vision, and color vision.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an

employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The physical

demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee

to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations

may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.