Equipment Operator I

Location: Queen Anne's County, Maryland

About the role

The salary for this position is the minimum of the range. This position performs a wide range of manual labor functions in support of the Department of Public Works. Under direct supervision of a maintenance supervisor, performs miscellaneous physical tasks related to the maintenance of County roads and solid waste management.

Responsibilities

• Provides cordial, responsive, and accurate customer service.
• Operates hand, motorized, and electrical tools.
• Performs routine maintenance and makes minor repairs to vehicles and small equipment.
• Rakes stone and other activities related to road re-surfacing.
• Cleans drainage ditches.
• Removes tree limbs and debris from roadway.
• Trims bushes and trees.
• Performs traffic control by flagging.
• Collects, removes, processes, and/or disposes of solid waste.
• Operates tractor mower.
• Assists in operation of stone box in re-surfacing operations.
• Plows and removes snow.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Two (2) years of related experience or training in heavy equipment operation or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Possession of a DOT Physical Certification Card required.
• Class B Commercial Driver’s License issued by the Maryland MVA is preferred.
• Chainsaw, forklift, bucket truck, and flagger certification preferred but required within the first year of hire as applicable to specific duties and responsibilities.
• Completion of the following National Incident Management System (NIMS) Training within the first year of employment:
  • Non-supervisory Employees Course 700

Skills

Language Skills

• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers written in English.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply basic math skills.
• Ability to perform operations using standard units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to maintain cooperative, working relationships with those contacted in the course of work activities.

Additional Considerations for Internal Promotion

• Minimum of two years of performance evaluations with a score of 1.40 or higher as a Highway Technician.
• No Employee Action Reports for a two-year period of written warning or higher as a Highway Technician.
• Consistently demonstrates good attendance through reporting to work on time and working as scheduled; is flexible in changing work schedule if needed and is a good steward of leave time.
• Concurrence of promotion from supervisor.
• Demonstration of progressive advancement in level of work duties and responsibilities.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, and controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk and hear.
• Occasionally required to sit.
• Requires regular lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds and occasionally 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made for some of these physical demands for otherwise qualified individuals who require and request such accommodation.

Work Environment

• Regularly works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions and is exposed to vibration.
• May be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Additional Information

• This position has been designated as an ESSENTIAL POSITION and may be required to report to or remain on duty when County offices are closed due to inclement weather or for other reasons.
• May be required to work shift work, overtime, weekends, and holidays and/or remain on standby for a call back to work.
• Employees must conform to applicable policies and safety rules.
• This position is within the Queen Anne’s County Civil Service System.
• An employee must serve a period of twelve months probation during which he or she may be terminated without notice, cause, hearing, or right of appeal.