Maintenance Worker/ General Laborer

Titles: Maintenance Worker/ General Laborer  

Duration: Full-time

Location: St. Louis, MO 63110

Description

Duties include: cutting, caulking, and replacing pipes; excavating; operating pumps, trucks, tractors, and mowers; pavement breaking; pouring concrete; replacing asphalt and cleaning water-settling basins.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

● Installs stop planks on basins to detour flows and seal leakage.

● Cleans water treatment basins, tunnels, and conditioners.

● Operates various valves and sewer gates for flood protection, shut off water mains, basin cleaning, and draining.

● Provides plant visitor check-in at the front gate (Howard Bend Plant).

● Filter renovations: jackhammer out filter rock, vacuum out debris, and replace with new filter rock.

● Concrete renovations; break out, clean out, and prep site, and help place new concrete.

● Asphalt repairs; general repairs to roads and replacement due to construction.

● Install and repair water mains.

● Hand dig trenches for various water, chemical, electrical, storm and sewer lines in and around various obstacles and utility crossings.

● Backfill, tamp, and level various construction areas prior to seeding and strawing.

● Help erect, repair, and maintain chain link fencing and barriers around plant perimeter and reservoirs,

● Clean out various sewers, manholes, and street drains along plant grounds.

● Operate motor vehicles including forklift, pickup, and dump trucks.

● Operates grounds maintenance equipment and tractors.

● Performs custodial maintenance in service building and garage areas.

● Operates small power tools such as jackhammers, chipping hammers, tampers, water pumps, air compressors, toxic gas monitors, generators, etc.

● Installs platforms, railing, grating, and ladders on and around basins.

● Makes work sites safe by installing barricades, warning tape, or cones.

● Pick up parts, supplies, and materials for continuous operation of plant functions.

● Mix concrete for repairs and for use in fabricated lids, curbs, and pipe supports.

● Acts as lead person when assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

● Data Utilization: Requires the ability to compile, assemble, copy, record, and/or transcribe data and information according to a prescribed scheme or plan.

● Human Interaction: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as hand and power tools, threading/tapping equipment, wrenches, forklift, jack hammer, loader, backhoe and trucks and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as safety regulations, work orders, maps, blueprints and general operating manuals.

● Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentage and decimals.

● Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

Other Requirements:

● Positions require shift, weekend, and holiday assignments, mandatory overtime,e and 24-hour emergency call.

● Shift differential of 1% is paid for evening, night, and weekend shifts.

Qualifications

Some experience in outdoor maintenance and/or grounds work.

License: Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver’s license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present license upon request. Please note type of license, number, class, and license expiration date on the Employment Application.

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