Temp Maintenance Worker / Stormwater

Duties & Responsibilities

• Operates light to heavy-duty trucks and equipment, including dump trucks, to haul rock, gravel, sand, and dirt
• Affords assistance in loading and unloading materials, supplies, tools, debris, and dirt
• Transports debris from stormwater drainageways to the landfill
• Cleans, maintains, and repairs storm sewers, manholes, drains, and catch basins
• Buils, pours, and finishes concrete forms
• Utilizes a pick, shovel, jackhammer, and tamper
• Digs ditches
• Operates air compressors and generators
• Utilizes a manual and power weed cutters and applies non-restricted chemicals to remove weeds from City property and drainage
• Operates chain saws and hand saws to trim trees and shrubs and to remove brush
• Operates various hand, power, and riding mowers to cut grass and mulch
• Removes leaves and trash from City property
• Maintains landscapes
• Performs daily equipment inspections
• Performs minor repairs to trucks and equipment
• Compiles daily activity reports including materials used and work accomplished
• Performs related duties as required

Physical Requirements

• Lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling equipment and supplies weighing up to 100 pounds, frequently lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 100 pounds
• Frequently standing and walking for prolonged periods of time to observe for safety hazards and perform daily functions
• Using manual dexterity to manipulate supplies, tools, and equipment
• Using visual acuity (near/distant, color, depth perception and at night) to read operating manuals and instructions, field or construction drawings, safely operate a vehicle and equipment; identify hazards; and perform daily functions
• Frequently performing activities requiring a full range of body movements including sitting, bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, crawling, twisting, and balancing
• Ability to deal with moderate levels of stress including field traffic situations, irate citizens, other employees

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of mathematical computations and tabulations, sufficient to perform the essential functions, which include basic arithmetic, division, and multiplication
• Knowledge of and ability to use common hand and power tools
• Ability to read a map
• Ability to follow oral and written directions
• Skill in the safe and lawful operation of a motor vehicle
• Skill in performing all the job duties in a safe manner

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older
• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States of America
• A valid driver’s license at the time of application, and a valid Colorado driver’s license within 30 days of employment
• Licenses restrictions that may hinder your ability to drive on City business, such as an interlock, will be cause for disqualification
• During the course of employment, a valid license must be maintained, and the employee must notify the City immediately upon changes to the status of their license

Special Conditions Of Employment

• Employees must pass a pre-employment background check and drug screen
• The individual will be required to possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment

Benefits

• As a PERA member you contribute a percentage of every check to PERA in exchange for a lifetime defined benefit, or pension
• City of Pueblo Temporary and Seasonal Employee Sick Leave Benefits
• Beginning January 1, 2021, all employers in Colorado are required to provide paid sick leave to employees under the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (“HFWA”)
• Leave may be used for any of the following reasons:
• The employee has a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition
• Needs a medical diagnosis, care, or treatment related to such illness, injury, or condition
• Needs to obtain preventive medical care
• The employee needs to care for a family member who has a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition
• Needs a medical diagnosis, care, or treatment related to such illness, injury, or condition
• Needs to obtain preventive medical care
• The employee or family member has been the victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment and needs to be absent from work for purposes related to such crime
• A public official has ordered the closure of the school or place of care of the employee's child or of the employee's place of business due to a public health emergency, necessitating the employee's absence from work
• Consistent with the HWFA, part-time temporary and seasonal employees of the City shall not carry forward more than forty-eight (48) hours of unused sick leave from one year to the next
• Pueblo Municipal Code 6-6-5.5, 6-6-5 and 6-6-6