Adopted CC:3-14-94
Revised CC:4-8-96

Definition

This classification performs semi-skilled tasks in the maintenance and repair of City parks, and City buildings.

Supervision Exercised and Received

Receives direct supervision from Senior Maintenance Workers, and indirect supervision from the General Services Superintendent.

Essential and Important Duties

• Efficiently uses his/her time. Performs assigned tasks at a productive and efficient work pace without the need for continuing direct supervision. Completes all tasks in conformance with accepted City standards for maintenance work, and seeks other tasks when current tasks are completed ahead of schedule. Travels to and from the job site by the shortest, safest route. 
• Observes safe work practices, using the correct work methods and proper safety equipment for each task. Skillfully operates light, medium and complex equipment. Knows, and is able to competently apply, techniques for operation of equipment in a safe manner, according to accepted City procedures. 
• Competently performs daily safety checks and routine maintenance of equipment to ensure it is safe for use. 
• Performs all work tasks properly and competently, applying accepted City work techniques. Correctly uses the proper tools. 
• Repairs surface failures, utility cuts, and chuckholes in asphalt pavements properly and competently, using a pavement breaker to square cut the pavement, an emulsion spray unit to apply a tack coat to the edge of the pavement in the excavated area, hand tools to fill the excavated area with hot or cold asphalt and to rake it smooth, and a vibratory tamper, roller, or the dump truck to compact the asphalt. Hauls asphalt to the job site using a dump truck. 
• Seals cracks in asphalt pavement, including cleaning the cracks of foreign matter with an air compressor, filling the crack with an asphalt compound, and covering the asphalt compound with sand. Hauls the asphalt compound to the job site using a dump truck. 
• Breaks out and replaces concrete sidewalks and gutters using tools, including a concrete saw, pavement breaker, wooden forms, and hand tools to tamp, rod, and finish the surface. Hauls the removed concrete to the landfill using a dump truck. 
• Cleans sanitary sewer lines of debris such as grease, sand, roots, and rocks using tools including a hydraulic flusher and mechanical rodder. 
• Applies vapor rooter sanifoam. 
• Makes signs; paints curbs as needed. 
• Excavates, removes, and installs sanitary sewer mains utilizing hand tools such as shovels, power tools such as pavement breakers, compaction equipment, and operating dump trucks to haul material to and from the job site. 
• Rakes leaves, shovels, digs holes, waters. 
• Properly picks up and disposes of trash and debris from parks and roadsides. Correctly uses tools, including backpack blowers, poker sticks, rakes and brooms. Hauls debris to the City yard using a pickup truck or dump truck. 
• Controls the growth of weeds in lawn areas, shrub areas, and flower beds using hand tools, spray equipment and weed eaters. 
• Trims trees, hedges, and shrubs using appropriate equipment, then rakes and picks up debris with a scoop shovel and places it in a pickup truck or dump truck. Thins and tops trees using chain saws and hand shears. 
• Mows lawns using small or large riding mower and a hand rotary mower; edges lawns using power edgers. 
• Understands and is able to competently apply basic horticultural techniques in the planting of annual, perennial, and bulb flowers in planters, flower beds, and other landscaped areas, and in the planting of new and replacement trees, shrubs, grass, and turf. Cultivates flowers by weeding, fertilizing, and taking off old blooms. 
• Thoroughly checks irrigation sprinkler systems and ensures their proper functioning, by cleaning and adjusting heads and digging up and repairing broken lines. 
• Cleans the rooms in the City's and park buildings by sweeping and mopping floors, emptying ash trays, dusting and polishing furniture, waxing floors, vacuuming and steam cleaning carpets, and cleaning restroom facilities. Replaces light bulbs. 
• Provides set up of tables and chairs in City buildings. 

Job-Related and Essential Qualifications

Knowledge of functions of and proper use and care of hand and power tools, including chain saws, hand shears, jack hammers, spray equipment and mowing equipment. Proper operation of vehicles, including light and medium 2-axle dump trucks and 3-axle heavy trucks; proper safety precautions and procedures; horticultural techniques; sprinkler systems; building maintenance procedures.

Ability to read, write and speak English in order to communicate effectively with the public, other employees and supervisors; comprehend and accurately follow brief oral instructions; count; perform heavy and physically demanding work for lengthy, continuous periods of time. Learn, use and retain knowledge of operating hand trowels, hydraulic flusher, mechanical rodder, vapor rooter, backhoe roller, digging tools, shovels, rakes, trimmers and power tools. Ability to establish, maintain and foster cooperative working relations with others contacted in the course of work.

Skills to safely drive vehicles of all sizes, including 3-axle trucks; accurately maintain simple records, including daily work reports.

Education and Training

Sufficient education and experience to satisfactorily perform the duties of this classification. A typical qualifying background would be one year of work experience in public works, parks, and buildingmaintenance work and light maintenance work that includes some semi-skilled assignments.

Special Requirements

Must be able to perform the essential and important duties of this classification individually and unassisted by other persons, and be able to:

• Work inside approximately 5% of the time and outside the other 95% in all weather conditions, including in the rain. 
• Work with equipment that gives off loud noises, including leaf blowers, power mowers, jack hammers, asphalt spreaders, and other noises. Ability to work with a jack hammer, which gives off vibrations. 
• Work in a stooping position 1-2 hours per day. 
• Work while bending at the waist up to 90 degrees. 
• Lift and carry up to 100 pounds, 3-6 hours per week, occasionally lifting this weight vertically approximately 3-4 feet. 
• Work with frequent neck motion and flexion, and continuous gripping and grasping. 

Licenses, Certificates and Registration

Possession of a commercial California driver's license issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles upon completion of the six-month probation period.