Equipment Operator II - Cleaner

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Reconstruction Crew

  • Operates loaders, backhoe, and gradall in street reconstruction work and full depth repair work.
  • Remove asphalt and concrete, excavate sub-grade to desired grade and load dump trucks.
  • Operates various trucks: dump truck, backhoe, loader, roller, etc. while performing tasks related to street reconstruction and maintenance of City streets, alleys, drainages, rights-of-way, and other property.
  • Hauls dirt, grass, road base, asphalt, water, pipe, equipment, debris, and other material used.
  • Uses hand tools and equipment for tasks associated such as shoveling, hammering, and picking.
  • Performs routine preventative maintenance on trucks and equipment.

• Forestry Crew

  • Aids on a crew to trim and cut trees along City streets and alleys.
  • Chips tree limbs and brush or to load them on a dump truck.
  • Clears trees, brush and vines from drainages and creeks and reviews for stoppage.

• Drainage Crew

  • Operates backhoes, loader, and other various equipment: dump truck, backhoe, wheel loader, dozer, boom mower, excavator, etc. while performing tasks related to the maintenance of City creeks, detention ponds, and drainage channels.
  • Uses hand tools and equipment for tasks associated such as shoveling, hammering, and picking.
  • Performs routine preventative maintenance on trucks and equipment.

• Sweeper Crew

  • Operates a regenerative air street sweeper following an established route to sweep City streets, and other areas as assigned.
  • Deposits sweeping debris at landfill, and fill truck with water.
  • Completes daily maintenance of truck, ensuring that hopper and screens in sweeper body are cleaned, and all safety equipment (rotating beacon light, flashing lights, camera, etc.) are always operational.
  • Assembles gutter brooms for sweeper, sweeping before and after asphalt and seal coat work, and sweeping other City of Temple areas when assigned.
  • Completes other duties as assigned.

• Patch Truck Crew

  • Operates patch truck in the patching of potholes, utility cuts in streets and alleys.
  • Prepares jobsite and lay asphalt material for new construction, overlay and major street repairs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Internal Candidates

  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Two (2) years of City of Temple experience.
  • Class A CDL Flagger Training.
  • TXLTAP Training - 72 Hrs.

• External Candidates

  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Class A CDL Flagger Training within 6 months.
  • TXLTAP Training - may supplement 4 years of outside experience (truck driving and construction equipment) for TXLAP training, then 72hrs within 12 months.