Maintenance Worker - Streets I Open Until Filled

Sangertexas; Sanger (TX); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Maintenance Worker in Sanger, Texas, where you'll play a crucial role in maintaining the city's streets and ensuring public safety. This position involves performing various maintenance tasks, including road repairs, traffic control, and emergency assistance during severe weather. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of street maintenance operations, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to work independently. With a commitment to community service and teamwork, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the well-being of Sanger's residents. If you are ready to take on a rewarding challenge, this position is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Valid Texas Class “C” Driver’s License needed.

Responsibilities

• Perform street reconstruction and maintenance tasks.
• Assist during emergencies and maintain traffic control.

Skills

Street maintenance knowledge

Customer service skills

Problem-solving skills

Conflict management techniques

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

Heavy/light motorized equipment

Hand and power tools

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Maintenance Worker - Streets I Open Until Filled

Purpose:

Responsible for performing street reconstruction/rehabilitation, surface maintenance, traffic control, drainage clearance and right of way maintenance.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Performs general road maintenance including but not limited to mixing concrete, placing hot or cold asphalt mix and sealing cracks; erecting fences, cleaning drainage ditches and collecting trash; cutting bushes, trimming trees and mowing grass; placing and collecting cones, traffic signs and installing and/or repairing barricades, parking bumpers and guard rails.
2. Serves as job site traffic control point and flags traffic as appropriate.
3. Assists during emergencies such as floods, severe weather, and accidents by sanding bridges, placing and maintaining warning signs, setting up barricades, cutting up fallen trees and assisting the public.
4. Performs preventive maintenance and/or repairs equipment to ensure proper operating conditions including but not limited to checking oil, water, fuel and tire hydraulics; reports deficiencies to supervisor.
5. Prepares daily activity logs.
6. Confers with customers regarding service problems and reports feedback to supervisor.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Basic knowledge of street maintenance work including but not limited to the operation and/or maintenance of heavy/light, gasoline/diesel motorized equipment and hand and power tools (i.e. picks, shovels, rakes, chainsaw, weed-eater).
2. Basic understanding of Texas Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices I (TMUTCD) provisions.
3. Basic skills to produce finished quality maintenance repair with minimum rework.
4. Ability to develop and maintain a positive working relationship with staff, fellow employees, elected officials, supervisors, citizens, business and community groups.
5. Ability to understand and follow verbal and written instructions, complete daily work orders and work independently in the absence of supervision.
6. Ability to establish work priorities and complete job tasks within specified time frame with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
7. Basic understanding of problem solving and conflict management techniques.
8. Ability to provide excellent customer service.
9. Basic knowledge of City safety rules and operating procedures.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

1. High School diploma or GED equivalent.
2. Must have a valid Texas Class “C” Driver’s License.
3. Must pass a drug test, driver’s license check, criminal history background check.
4. Ability to work overtime and/or be on-call for the department during extreme weather and/or the rotation of schedule on nights/weekends and emergency calls and respond to a call within thirty (30) minutes.