Street & Sanitation Maintenance Worker I

About the role

Performs various manual tasks for cleaning, maintaining, and repairing city facilities, streets, drainage systems, and right-of-ways.

Responsibilities

• Assists with repairing potholes, including setting up barricades to warn traffic of hazardous areas, measuring, cleaning, and filling holes;
• Maintains ditches by hand or using a push or power lawn mower, power trimmer, hoe, shovel, or swing blade;
• Trims trees, picks up brush, and loads brush onto the truck;
• Picks up litter on the sides of streets and roads;
• Attends training sessions on safety and street maintenance as required;
• Picks up recyclables and disposes them at the Recycle Center;
• Paints curbs and parking lines;
• Installs and maintains road signs.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED Certificates;
• Appropriate Texas driver’s license.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of methods, practices, materials, and equipment used in street system maintenance;
• Use and care of tools and specialized equipment;
• Understand and follow instructions;
• Use power or hand-operated tools, including, trimmer, hoe, shovel, etc.

Skills and Abilities

• Tolerate outside working conditions, including exposure to adverse weather conditions;
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers.

Benefits

• Health Insurance – 100% coverage for all employees and subsidized cost for dependents;
• Vision Insurance – 100% coverage for all employees;
• Dental Insurance – 100% coverage for all employees;
• Life Insurance – Basic Life insurance & Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, policy pays $50,000 for the employee, $5,000 for the spouse, and $2,000 for children up to age 25 years of age. Supplemental Life and AD&D insurance is also available for employees;
• Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) – 6% - 2 to 1 match Vested at 5 years of service Retire after 20 years of service in TMRSSupplemental Death Benefit of $7,500;
• Voluntary 457 Retirement Plan through MissionSquare Retirement;
• Vacation – Based on years of service;
• Sick – All regular full-time, non-firefighting employees accrue sick leave at the rate of 3.7 hours per two-week pay period and firefighters accrue 4.62 hours per two-week pay period. Maximum sick leave accrual is 120 days (960 hours).
• Holidays – The City pays employees for 12 holidays per year;
• Longevity – After three years of service, receive longevity pay at a rate of $4 per month for each year of service;
• Voluntary Permanent Life Insurance - life insurance you can take with you when you change jobs or retire;
• Voluntary Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance - Disability insurance provides benefits that replace part of your lost income when you become unable to work due to a covered injury or illness;
• Voluntary Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance - voluntary benefits that are designed to complement your health care coverage and allow you to customize benefits to you and your family’s needs;
• Voluntary Legal Insurance - Legal insurance covers a wide range of legal needs to help you address life's legal situations;
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)/ Dependent Care (DCA) - FSAs allow you to set aside a portion of your income, before taxes, to pay for qualified health care and/or dependent care expenses. Because that portion of your income is not taxed, you pay less in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Life is full of challenges and sometimes balancing them all can be difficult. We are proud to provide a confidential program dedicated to supporting the emotional health and well-being of our employees and their families. The EAP is provided at NO COST to you and your dependents.
• Tuition Reimbursement - Full-time employees are eligible for reimbursement up to 60% of eligible expenses annually, not to exceed $40,000.00 per employee over the entire duration of employment at the City, unless determined otherwise by City Manager, including fees for tuition, mandatory fees, and parking permit fees.
• Parental Leave - Paid Parental Leave (PPL) is provided to eligible employees who are birth mothers, biological fathers, or adoptive or foster mothers or fathers. Employees eligible for PPL must also be FMLA eligible and must have been full-time employees for at least one (1) year immediately prior to using PPL. Eligible employees will be provided up to three (3) contiguous weeks (120 hours maximum, 126 hours maximum for police, and 160 hours maximum for fire shift personnel) of PPL immediately following birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a new child.
• Certification Pay - The City of Navasota encourages its employees to pursue opportunities to earn advanced training relative to their job duties and positions. Certification pay for a wide variety of certifications is available to full-time employees. The maximum total of all certifications pay cannot exceed $250.00 per month/$3,000.00 per year for non-public safety employees and $300.00 per month/$3,600.00 per year for police and fire department employees.