PUBLIC WORKS TECHNICIAN

                                                          General Statement of Duties

Performs a variety of responsible unskilled and semi-skilled maintenance, repair, and construction work on streets, grounds, water distribution, sewer collection system, lift stations, and other public areas.

                                                   Distinguishing Features of the Class

An employee in this class performs a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled labor tasks in the construction, maintenance, and repair of streets, water distribution system, wastewater collections, grounds, lift stations and other public facilities and areas.  Work also involves reading water meters, sanitation collection, landscape maintenance, and related work.  Work involves operating construction equipment and a variety of tools, and light and medium equipment to build, repair and replace sections of water and sewer lines, asphalt repair and other infrastructure.  Employees are subject to working in both inside and outside environments, in extreme hot and cold weather, and exposure to various hazards such as loud noises, vibration, moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation, and oils.  Work is also subject to the final standards of OSHA on blood borne pathogens.  Employees are also subject to on-call and call-back work.  Work is performed under regular supervision and is evaluated through observation and inspection for adherence to instructions and standard trade and safety practices.

                                                           Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Tasks

Performs semi-skilled trades work in the construction, maintenance and repair of water and sewer lines; operates construction equipment such as dump trucks, loaders, tampers, trenchers, air compression driven equipment, and other related light and medium equipment; performs preventive maintenance and minor repairs to equipment.

Performs water taps; repairs leaks and installs water lines; cleans and maintains sewer lines and culverts; repairs sewer line leaks; smokes sewer lines to check for cracks and connections; maintains sewer lift stations.

Participates in asphalt repair to streets and other street facilities.

Participates in erection, maintenance and repair of street signs and painting street markings.

Reads water meters on regular bi-monthly schedule; assist in repair of water meters.

Shovels snow; puts down salt or pushes snow with a dump truck.

Participates in clearing right of ways, leaf removal, and cemetery maintenance; collects yard debris on residential routes; removes fallen limbs from streets; digs cemetery graves.

Rides on back of garbage trucks and gets off to collect residential and commercial garbage and recycling bins, roller carts, and dumpsters on regular weekly route schedule.

Participates in mowing, mulching, planting, seeding, irrigating, and other landscape maintenance tasks.

Assists in other maintenance tasks such as painting, cleaning gutters, and building fences.

Operates a variety of light, medium and heavy equipment including front end loaders, back hoes, dump trucks, power saws, tractors, trenchers, weed eaters, blowers, chipper, etc.

Provides traffic flagging and control and insures safe work zone when working around traffic.

            Performs vehicle and equipment maintenance and minor repairs; keeps vehicles clean.

            Prepares simple records of work activities.

Additional Job Duties

Performs related tasks as required.

Recruitment and Selection Guidelines

Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities

Working knowledge of tools, materials and equipment used in public works and utility construction and maintenance work.