Laborer Streets/Highways

This is unskilled and limited semi-skilled manual labor.  Laborers are responsible for the satisfactory performance of light and heavy manual laboring tasks in a wide variety of construction and maintenance work throughout the roads, grounds and other properties in the Town.  Some assignments, including elementary equipment operations, may require skills that can readily be learned on the job.  Usually work is performed under the immediate direction of an employee of a higher classification, but many tasks may be routine and repetitive in nature and once learned can be carried on without difficulty and under only general supervision.

• Perform work on: road, patch oil crew, street sweeping, helper on power sweepers;

• Periodically drives jeep, handling garbage and trash;
• Operates small tractor; cutting grass, digging ditches;
• Assists craftsmen in a variety of unskilled tasks;
• Install old and new road signs; clear brush from roadside; paint center lines on pavements, rough painting on school crossing and street signs, sweeps walks;
• Remove refuse from grounds; cut, trim, water and fertilize lawns and bushes;
• Load and unload heavy material from trucks and vans; move or aid in moving furniture, equipment and large bulky items;
• During winter months -work as a helper on snow removal and miscellaneous shoveling;
• Perform related work as required

 

• Some knowledge of simple tools use in the maintenance and constructions

 • Ability to operate simply machinery

• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED

• Preference for those with CDL B License

Employee has 6 months to obtain a CDL B license.   (Hourly rate $24.27 without CDL and $29.10 with CDL B)

Physical Requirements:
• Sufficient physical strength and agility and freedom from disabling defect to do heavy manual labor, occasionally under a wide variety of adverse weather conditions

Work Schedule:  (For details, see http://fairfieldct.org/unioncontracts DPW Contract)
 

AFFILIATION

• Member of Public Works Collective Bargaining Unit

THE TOWN OF FAIRFIELD IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

It is the policy of the Town of Fairfield to ensure equal employment opportunity for all employees and to prohibit unlawful discrimination because of race, color, religion, creed, age, marital status, national origin, gender; gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or physical and mental disability.

Salary : $24 - $29