Maintenance Crew/Driver

Essential Job Functions

• Ensures all safety procedures are followed.
• Reports any safety hazards, injuries, or close calls to the supervisor.
• Promotes and conducts good housekeeping practices.
• Maintains vehicle; complies with all safe-work practices, policies, and processes at all times.
• Operates and maintains a variety of hand power tools and light/heavy equipment.
• Safely loads, secures, and transports heavy equipment to assigned destinations, after obtaining risk management certification.
• Affords assistance in moving office/school furniture, county assets, and equipment between worksites, and within buildings.
• Secures cargo and properly arranges materials to safely arrive at destination.
• Moves, loads/unloads, assembles/disassembles, and sets up furniture; assists in event set-up and take-down.
• Gathers and disposes of trash, recycling, and waste materials associated with work.
• Works closely with management on problem solving and is able to be an independent decision maker.
• Shovels snow or operates snow removal equipment to maintain streets, parking lots, and sidewalks.
• Affords assistance in moving voting equipment to schools, based on the guidance of the supervisor, and follows appropriate protocols regarding the integrity and security of said equipment.
• Delivers and picks up voting equipment to schools, based on the guidance of the supervisor, and follows appropriate protocols regarding the integrity and security of said equipment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Report Preparation

May need to prepare safety reports and associated paperwork, as requested.

Equipment Operation

Utilizes equipment pertaining to the assigned area.

Contacts

• Frequent contact with all levels of Facilities staff, as well as staff from assigned building(s).
• Occasional contact with Chesterfield County Government employees.

Work Direction/Supervision

N/A

Decision Making

Frequent independent decision-making and problem-solving as it relates to service deliveries and execution. Seeks supervisor’s approval for situations outside of routine procedure.

Physical Demands

• Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Exhibit manual dexterity to use a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal.
• To see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Hear, understand speech and speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly at normal levels indoors and on the telephone.
• Physical agility to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may work outside and be exposed to outside weather conditions.
• The employee regularly works near moving mechanical equipment and may be exposed to dust or airborne particles, and packaged toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level is moderate to loud.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of basic custodial, building, or grounds maintenance and warehouse practices; and of applicable tools and equipment used in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Ability to use hand and power tools; to work in adverse weather conditions; to perform physically demanding work, including, but not limited to, heavy lifting, walking up and down stairs, standing for prolonged periods, squatting, stooping, bending, twisting, stretching, crawling, reaching overhead, and working in awkward positions without choice or variety; to communicate effectively orally and in writing; and to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers.
• Ability to plan, organize, and set priorities to achieve deadlines and ensure internal/external customer satisfaction.
• Basic computer skills are necessary, including working in Gmail, logging into computers, and working on tablets to manage work orders for updating and completing assignments.

Additional Job Requirements

• Any equivalent combination of experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform this job.
• Valid VA Driver’s License in good standing.
• Valid Commercial Drivers’ License (CDL) Class B License is required, or must be obtained within one year of hire date.
• Must possess or obtain safety certifications for forklift and pallet jack equipment, as well as Risk Management certification, within one year of hire date.