light equipment operator

Duties

• Drives and/or operates automobiles, six-to-eight passenger van, bus, etc.
• Operates powered machinery such as: tractors, pickups, carryalls, asphalt burners, laydown machines, flat beds, tar pots, chippers, spreaders, trailers, compressors, yard equipment, street flusher, dump truck (up to five yards), and/or mud jacks.
• May be assigned to work alone or with laborers.
• May assist in loading and unloading trucks.
• Assists City crews with physical work activities, which may include cutting grass, pulling or pushing things, objects, materials, tools and etc., excavating and moving earth and other materials; spraying and flushing streets.
• Serves (gas, oil, water, clean, grease and etc.) and perform minor maintenance on assigned vehicles.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Minimum Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or GED, or the equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to perform tasks.
• Possess a Class "A," "B," or "D" LA driver's license.

Physical Requirements

• Tasks involve sedentary to light work, involving some reaching, handling, fingering and/or feeling of objects and materials.
• Involves the ability to exert light to moderately heavy physical effort, but which may involve some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate to moderately heavy weight (12-50 pounds).
• May occasionally involve heavier objects and materials (up to 100 pounds).
• Tasks may require perception and discrimination of color, sound, odor, depth, texture, as well as visual ability and oral communications ability.

Work Environment

• Tasks may require exposure to extreme temperature, strong odors, smoke, dust, pollen, wetness and humidity, machinery and traffic hazards.

Benefits

• Vacation and sick leave.
• Health, dental and vision insurance.
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Long term disability.

Travel

• Travel will be required locally from location to location to accomplish assignments and visit job sites.

Questions

• Do you have a High School Diploma or GED?
• What is the class endorsement on your current and valid driver's license? (You must submit proof at time of hire)