TEMPORARY STREET LABORER

City of Farmington; Farmington (NM); On-site; USD 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Farmington is seeking a Temporary Streets Laborer to perform street maintenance and related tasks under the Street Division. The role involves operating light to medium equipment, handling a variety of hand tools, and working outdoors in all weather conditions.

Applicants must possess a valid New Mexico or state residency driver's license and have at least one year of construction-related experience or equivalent vocational training.

Qualifications

• Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace policy with pre-employment, post-accident, random, reasonable suspicion, return-to-duty and follow-up testing.
• Extensive background checks required.
• Baseline audiometric examination required.
• Valid NM/state residency driver's license with 3 years of driving history.
• One year of construction-related experience with trucks or light automotive equipment, or applicable vocational training.
• Must have a telephone at residence and be willing to be on 24-hour call.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine street maintenance and construction tasks under supervision.
• Operate light to medium automotive equipment as assigned.
• Provide excellent customer service and maintain relationships with co-workers, officials and the public.
• Operate motor vehicles to assist in department/business operations.
• Operate tools such as jack-hammers, saws, rollers, and other hand equipment.
• Work outdoors in extreme weather conditions and around noisy, vibrating equipment.
• Frequent exposure to fuel, paints, asphalt, and related materials.

Job description

JOB OPENING

CITY OF FARMINGTON

JOB POSITION #157: TEMPORARY STREETS LABORER

NUMBER OF VACANCIES: 1

DEPARTMENT: Public Works/Streets

WORK LOCATION: MOC HIRING

RANGE: $15.00/hourly

DAYS WORKED: Monday – Friday

HOURS WORKED: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

TYPE OF POSITION: Temporary

APPLICATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED: Open Until Filled

JOB DUTIES

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Under the supervision of Street Division Foreman, performs routine street maintenance
• construction tasks, including a wide variety of semi-skilled manual tasks and extends to the
• operation of light to medium sized automotive equipment.
• Using excellent customer service skills, establishes and maintains effective working relationships
• with other employees, officials, and all members of the general public.
• Operates a motor vehicle to assist in carrying out the business of the department and the City.
• Operates jack-hammers, vibrating skid plate tampers, chain saws, weed eaters, hand picks,
• shovels, brooms, rakes, pitch forks, pruners and other miscellaneous hand tools.
• Operates snow control equipment.
• Operates steel wheel rollers, rubber tire rollers, crack sealing machine, loaders, water trucks and
• similar equipment.
• Works with asphalt, crack sealing material, concrete, salt, liquid calcium chloride, liquid
• magnesium chloride, oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, herbicides, paint, traffic control signs, trash,
• weeds, tree limbs, dirt, rock, sand and gravel.
• Performs heavy manual labor duties out-of-doors in extreme weather conditions.
• Operates and works around noisy equipment, vibrating equipment.
• Frequent exposure to gasoline, diesel, paint and asphalt fumes.
• Attendance at work is an essential function of this position.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Controls traffic at work sites by flagging to guide traffic through work areas and/or setting up
• traffic control devices.
• Assists in setting up and cleaning of job sites.
• Cleans weeds, trash, and other debris from work site.
• Performs custodial tasks.
• Provides minor equipment maintenance inspections such as greasing, checking oil, transmission
• fluid and water.
• The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be
• performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the
• position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

QUALIFICATIONS

This position is subject to the City of Farmington's Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Policy which includes: pre-employment testing, post-accident testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion testing, return to duty testing, and follow-up testing.

Extensive background checks required.

This position requires a baseline audiometric examination.

Valid New Mexico or state of current residency driver's license with acceptable driving record

for the past three years.

One year of work experience in a construction related field involving the operation of trucks or

other related light automotive equipment, or equivalent vocational training courses.

Must have a telephone at residence.

Must be willing and able to be on 24 hour call at times.

Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, other City

personnel and the public.

TOOLS & EQUIPMENT:

Experience operating dump trucks, water trucks, crack sealing machine, jack-hammers, steel

wheel and rubber tire rollers, vibrating skid plate tampers, hand picks and shovels, chain saws,

weed eaters, brooms, rakes, pitch forks, pruners and loaders.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an

employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential

functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger,

handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee

frequently is required to stand and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk;

sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and may occasionally lift and/or

move, up to 50 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close

vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust

focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee

encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations

may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather

conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently

exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibration. The employee occasionally works in

high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or

caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.

Works with asphalt, crack sealing material, concrete, salt, liquid calcium chloride, liquid

magnesium chloride, oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, herbicides, paint, traffic control signs, trash,

weeds, tree limbs, dirt rock, sand and gravel.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/D/V