Maintenance Crew Chief - Water Distribution

City of Savannah; Savannah (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Savannah is seeking a supervisory maintenance professional to coordinate and lead crews across facilities and grounds maintenance, street and stormwater infrastructure, and related public works tasks. The role involves directing daily work, ensuring safety, and coordinating with other departments.

The position requires a high school diploma or GED with 1–3 years of relevant maintenance experience and a valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED; 1–3 years of building, water/sewer, solid waste, streets, grounds, and general construction maintenance; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Some supervisory experience preferred.
• A valid state-issued driver's license is required with an acceptable driving history.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, assigns, and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
• Provides technical guidance as the leader of the designated crew employees.
• Communicates safety rules and procedures to assigned crew members; monitors work to ensure compliance with applicable regulations; ensures that crew members are properly outfitted with safety glasses, gloves, masks, and steel-toed shoes.
• Assigns and assists with housekeeping duties, including removing trash, vacuuming carpets, mopping floors, waxing and buffing floors, cleaning windows, dusting fixtures, and replacing light bulbs.
• Performs skilled and lead work on medium and heavy equipment; safely operates any type of motorized equipment that excavates, loads, or moves dirt, gravel, or other material to maintain or construct streets, drainage, stormwater infrastructure, and other public properties.
• Operates equipment for the disposal, processing, or transportation of waste or other materials.
• Inspects, cleans, and performs routine equipment preventive maintenance; ensures suitable operating condition.
• Assists in planning, coordinating, and scheduling stormwater construction, maintenance, and repair, or solid waste management activities; schedules, prioritizes, and assigns daily work orders to crews.
• Inspects job sites for compliance with health, safety, and transportation rules and regulations; ensures safe, efficient work methods and practices; makes changes to work orders to resolve problems; recommends alternative solutions.
• Directs crews to make emergency repairs; coordinates work with other utilities, contractors, City and State inspectors, customers, and any entity that is essential to completion of each assignment.
• Visually examines the site and structures to determine the extent of required remedial action; reports circumstances to superiors and notifies available qualified personnel and organizations.
• Performs emergency service on roads or stormwater facilities in conjunction with other departments and agencies; ensures proper placement of barricades and warning signs. Maintains city pump station sites.
• Assists the supervisor in training and orientation of less knowledgeable employees by explaining and demonstrating work performed. Instructs operators in safety precautions and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

City policies

Maintenance procedures

Construction procedures

Cemetery maintenance

Lawn equipment operation

Hand tools

Power tools

Power sweeper

Leaf blower

Pressure washer

Gate equipment

Oral communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

This position participates in facilities, street stormwater, wastewater, water, or solid waste construction, maintenance, and repair activities, transportation, and disposal operations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, assigns, and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
• Provides technical guidance as the leader of the designated crew employees.
• Communicates safety rules and procedures to assigned crew members; monitors work to ensure compliance with applicable regulations; ensures that crew members are properly outfitted with safety glasses, gloves, masks, and steel-toed shoes.
• Assigns and assists with housekeeping duties, including removing trash, vacuuming carpets, mopping floors, waxing and buffing floors, cleaning windows, dusting fixtures, and replacing light bulbs.
• Performs skilled and lead work on medium and heavy equipment; safely operates any type of motorized equipment that excavates, loads, or moves dirt, gravel, or other material to maintain or construct streets, drainage, stormwater infrastructure, and other public properties.
• Operates equipment for the disposal, processing, or transportation of waste or other materials.
• Inspects, cleans, and performs routine equipment preventive maintenance; ensures suitable operating condition.
• Assists in planning, coordinating, and scheduling stormwater construction, maintenance, and repair, or solid waste management activities; schedules, prioritizes, and assigns daily work orders to crews.
• Inspects job sites for compliance with health, safety, and transportation rules and regulations; ensures safe, efficient work methods and practices; makes changes to work orders to resolve problems; recommends alternative solutions.
• Directs crews to make emergency repairs; coordinates work with other utilities, contractors, City and State inspectors, customers, and any entity that is essential to completion of each assignment.
• Visually examines the site and structures to determine the extent of required remedial action; reports circumstances to superiors and notifies available qualified personnel and organizations.
• Performs emergency service on roads or stormwater facilities in conjunction with other departments and agencies; ensures proper placement of barricades and warning signs. Maintains city pump station sites.
• Assists the supervisor in training and orientation of less knowledgeable employees by explaining and demonstrating work performed. Instructs operators in safety precautions and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED, with one to three years of building, water/sewer, solid waste, streets, grounds, and general construction maintenance; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Some supervisory experience preferred.

A valid state-issued driver's license is required with an acceptable driving history.

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of city and department policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of general maintenance and repair procedures.
• Knowledge of maintenance and construction procedures, equipment, and materials.
• Knowledge of cemetery maintenance and construction procedures, equipment, and materials.
• Skill in the operation of lawn maintenance equipment.
• Skill in the operation of hand and power tools.
• Skill in the operation of power sweeper, leaf blower, pressure washer, gate equipment, and portable radio.
• Skill in oral communication.

Minimum Standards

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS: Work is performed under the moderate supervision of the Maintenance Supervisor. The supervisor spot-checks work in progress and, upon completion, for accuracy, adequacy, and adherence to instructions and established guidelines.

GUIDELINES: Guidelines include department rules and regulations, the city code of conduct, and department work standards. These guidelines are clear and specific.

COMPLEXITY: The work consists of directly related maintenance duties. Requires the application of a variety of procedures, policies, and/or precedents, and moderate analytic ability in adapting standard methods to fit facts and conditions. Inclement weather conditions contribute to the complexity of the position.

SCOPE AND EFFECT: The purpose of this position is to assist in grounds and facilities maintenance duties in support of department operations. Assisting and supporting others or individually providing data or facilitating services for use by others; minor to moderate consequence. PERSONAL CONTACTS: Regular contact within the department and other departments, outside agencies, and the general public (supplying or seeking information) on specialized matters. Contacts are typically with coworkers, other city employees, customers, visitors, funeral directors, representatives of monument companies, religious leaders, and members of the general public.

PURPOSE OF CONTACTS: Contacts are typically to give or exchange information, provide services, and resolve problems.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is typically performed while standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, and uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity. This is light work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work is typically performed outdoors. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves. One or more disagreeable elements (dust, heat, fumes, cold, noise, vibration, or wetness) are regularly present and objectionable, or continuing exposure to work situations that could result in incapacitating accidents or periodic exposure to situations involving hazards that could result in total disability, critical illness, or loss of life.

SUPERVISORY AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY: Supervision may be exercised over assigned personnel