LABORER

Essential Functions

• Acts steadily as a swamper on a truck, loads and unloads heavy materials or equipment;
• Uses wheelbarrows or pick and shovel;
• Digs holes for poles and trenches for pipe;
• Occasionally operates jackhammers or other power tools, or drives a light truck;
• Pushes a light cart and sweeps streets and sidewalks with hand broom;
• Cuts grass, weeds, and brush with hand tools;
• Cleans sand traps and curbs;
• Waters and weeds park areas;
• Acts as unskilled worker on construction and maintenance crews as in the cleaning of sewers and gutters, and assisting skilled or semi-skilled workers in concrete, asphalt or grading operations;
• Rakes lawns;
• Is called upon to fill-in on the many construction, maintenance, caretaking and gardening activities of the City.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to use common hand tools;
• Follow oral directions;
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, fellow employees and the public.

Special Conditions & Requirements

• Employees in this classification, who are required by applicable laws and regulations to have respiratory protection, shall comply with the American National Standards Institute’s requirements on Practices for Respiratory Protection.
• Employees in this classification assigned to sewer maintenance and construction are sometimes required to be available for call out and during that assignment shall receive a salary differential in accordance with Section 2-99 of the Burbank Municipal Code.
• Must have the physical stamina to engage in heavy manual type of work.

Licenses & Certificates

• A valid California Class "C" driver's license or equivalent at time of appointment.