What are the responsibilities and job description for the Street Maintenance Worker position at CITY OF STARKVILLE?
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
This is manual work requiring considerable skill in the construction, maintenance, and repair of city streets, sewers, drainage systems, facilities, equipment, and property. Work involves considerable knowledge in laying out work, and performing the skilled portions of the work involving heavy manual labor.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
• Assist with the repair and maintenance of City streets, right-of-ways and drainage ditches.
• Does pick and shovel work in grading, patching, and maintaining improved and unimproved streets; sweeps, paints, and applies hot mix and seals; spreads sand or stone chips by hand or mechanical spreader on asphalt or tar; excavates streets to grade and loads materials into trucks; spreads gravel, stone, or other construction materials; performs a wide variety of similar tasks in the reconstruction, repair, and maintenance of streets.
• Load truck, ensure proper tools and equipment have been loaded; ensures that all tools are cleaned and accounted for at the end of the day; cleans up job sites.
• Pour concrete for curbs and gutters, builds forms and boxes; finishes cement; and removes forms and boxes from set cement.
• Replaces repairs or installs traffic and other signs; installs signs for special events.
• Operates various types of equipment such as a jack hammers, air compressors, generators, shovel, rake, broom, chain saws, traffic safety devices, hydraulic power units, and associated attachments. May drive various trucks or equipment to the worksite; performs a daily inventory of working tools.
• May perform the work of an equipment operator.
• Ensure proper safety precautions have been taken; sets out traffic cones; puts out barricades; flags traffic.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Knowledge of the common practices, methods, and materials used in maintenance or construction.
• Knowledge of the tool and equipment used in skill labor work.
• Ability to understand oral and written instructions.
• Ability to perform heavy manual labor for extended periods of time.
• Ability to operate various types and sizes of equipment in area of assigned work.
