Equipment Operator III - Cemetery G121

Columbus, Georgia; Columbus (GA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The city of Columbus, Georgia is seeking a qualified individual for a position requiring the operation of heavy equipment for the maintenance and beautification of city-owned cemeteries. Candidates will be responsible for supervising crews, preparing burial sites, and ensuring safety standards, while needing a valid driver's license and relevant experience. This position offers the opportunity to play a vital role in community service while working primarily outdoors.

Qualifications

• Completion of specialized training in occupational field is common.
• Experience of 1-2 years in similar position is preferred.
• Possession of valid driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Operate equipment for maintenance and beautification of cemeteries.
• Supervise and prepare work orders and daily worksheets.
• Transport equipment and respond to customer complaints.

Skills

Knowledge of safety rules

Supervisory techniques

Grounds maintenance techniques

Communication skills

Map reading

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Specialized training in occupational field

Tools

Heavy equipment

Motor vehicles

Job description

This position is responsible for operating equipment to perform maintenance and beautification of city owned cemeteries.

• Must be able to prepare a grave site for the burial of cremations, body burial, or funeral.
• Performs grounds maintenance in four city-owned cemeteries; picks up litter; cleans.
• Stocks and issues supplies to crews; maintains an inventory of all motorized equipment.
• Transports equipment to work sites and the repair shop.
• Ensures that crews have the appropriate supplies and materials.
• Operates dump trucks, front end loaders, backhoes, flatbed trucks, blowers, chainsaws, and chippers.
• Prepares reports on accidents and injuries.
• Assists in supervising inmates; transports injured employees.
• Performs inspections of equipment and vehicles.
• Responds to customer complaints and questions.
• Responds to 911 pages.
• Supervises community service workers and/or inmates.
• Prepares work orders, daily worksheets, and accident reports.
• Must have a commercial drivers license.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of the rules and precautions related to roadway and equipment safety.
• Knowledge of supervisory techniques.
• Knowledge of city radio functions and codes.
• Knowledge of the techniques of grounds maintenance.
• Skill in the operation of dump trucks, tractors, front end loaders, backhoes, flatbed trucks, chainsaws, and blowers, and other heavy equipment.
• Skill in reading maps.
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Ability to read, write, and perform basic mathematical calculations.

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's license issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated. This position is required to supervise state inmate labor. Employee must pass the Department of Corrections three-day certification within the time frame required by this department which is normally six months but may be altered.

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee frequently lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and distinguishes between shades of color.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in a stockroom, warehouse, or outdoors where the employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, machinery with moving parts, contagious or infectious diseases, irritating chemicals, and cold or inclement weather. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.