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Street Maint Worker

City of Jonesboro, Bono, AR, United States


Street Maintenance Worker

The purpose of this safety sensitive (SS) position is to assist with repair and maintaining city streets.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
Collects leftover and broken asphalt for transport to the landfill.
Uses a concrete saw to cut asphalt.
Shovels asphalt behind roller.
Patches potholes.
Mows and weed-eats rights-of-way areas.
Cleans right-of-way areas with chain saws and hand tools; picks up litter and debris after storms and special events.
Assists with right-of-way and drainage system maintenance; performs masonry duties and clears catch basins.
Places signs to reroute traffic around work sites; flags traffic.
Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions.
Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education and experience: Minimum requirement; general educational background without high school completion, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Communication skills: Ability to read a limited number of words and recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers; ability to write and speak simple sentences as a means for basic communication.
Mathematical skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.
Critical thinking skills: Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out simple multi-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with limited variables.
Required certificates, licenses, registrations: Valid driver's license.
Working conditions:
Outside working environment, wherein there are extremely disagreeable working conditions most of the time (e.g. hot mix paving in constant sun).
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to outdoor weather conditions; regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, vibration; occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
Physical activities:
Highly repetitive, highly physical. Highly repetitive type work which requires the concentrated and non-diversified physical demands of the employee.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms; and frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear; occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.