Maintenance Operator

JOB
Performs a wide range of maintenance, repair, equipment operation, and construction tasks to ensure proper operation and safe utilization of the city's street, park, public grounds, and sewer systems.Hiring Range: $31.32/Hr - $33.16/Hr

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
Heavy Equipment Operator: Operates wide range of large equipment including loaders, backhoes, graders, bucket trucks, Class 8 trucks with plows, street sweepers, jetting trucks, tractors, mowers, skid steers and other power equipment.Street Maintenance: Plowing, de-icing, snow removal, pavement repair, curb and sidewalk repair, installing ADA pedestrian ramps, grading, street sweeping, striping of roadways and parking lots. Pours, maintains and repairs driveways, parking lots and trails. Performs maintenance on roadsides, ditches, storm water ponds and drainage ways by mowing and removing sediment.Park Maintenance: Maintains athletic fields by applying herbicide and fertilizer, laying out, striping, grading, grooming, aerating, top dressing and mowing. Maintains fencing, backstops, goals and lighting. Installs, maintains, repairs, winterizes and starts-up irrigation systems to athletic fields and public grounds. Constructs, inspects, and repairs playground equipment and orders parts as needed. Constructs, floods and maintains outdoor ice rinks. Sanitary Sewer: Responds to sewer back-ups and lift station alarms as assigned. Performs construction and maintenance on sanitary sewers, including lift stations, air release valves, manholes and sanitary sewer mains by reconstructing, jetting, flushing and televising.Storm Sewer: Reconstructs and repairs catch basins. Carries out emergency response duties in case of storms and floods; including the removal of debris and clearing of streets and property, sandbagging, jetting pipes and pumping of facilities.Building Maintenance: Constructs, repairs, remodels and maintains park buildings and picnic shelters including framing, roofing, pouring concrete, mechanical, plumbing and minor electrical issues to make buildings ADA compliant. Designs and fabricates projects out of metal and wood using welder, plasma cutter, grinder, sander, table saw, miter saw, pneumatic nailer and measuring tape.Equipment Maintenance: Installs and removes sanders, wings and plows on trucks. Performs general maintenance on small equipment including concrete saws, compactors, chain saws, leaf blowers, mowers, string trimmers, chemical sprayers and paint sprayers.Tree Maintenance: Identifies, trims, removes and replaces trees in public right-of-ways, easements and City parks.