Maintenance

City of Murchison Maintenance position - part time or full time position $15 to 17 hourly - Drug Free Work includes but not limited: mowing and weedeating City properties, backhoe operations, general maintenance on roads, city vehicles and equipment, trimming trees, removing debris. Please apply by visiting city hall or calling for an application. •Posting ends June 5, 2026 903-469-3710

Qualifications:

Job Duties include but not limited to: 1. Maintain a professional and personal attitude to fellow employees, city residents, contractors, council members and the mayor. Employee will be provided Uniform shirts. 2. Be drug free. 3. Answer emergency calls 24/7. 4. Conduct general backhoe operations (not for precision work like ditches). 5. Maintain general maintenance on all city owned vehicles and equipment. 6. Inventory and maintain an accurate and up to date record of city maintenance supplies and consumables. 7. Purchase and immediately provide receipts for any items needed for maintenance of the city with Mayor approval (excluding water/sewer or other contractor s material). 8. Install and maintain city street signs, speed limit signs, and stop signs or other city signs as approved by the City Council. 9. Maintain all streets in good repair. 10. Small tree trimming for anything that is over the roadway (whatever can be reached). 11. Mow and weed-eat city properties (approx. 8 acres), to include around signs, at intersections for visibility, ditches in the city right-of-way or other city owned properties deemed necessary by the Mayor or City Council. 12. Daily- (during work hours) travel all city streets AND all areas serviced by the City of Murchison Water Service to look for obvious water leaks and to check for and remove general road hazards (specifically during or just after major weather events), to include limbs or other debris in the roadway or ditches that would cause drainage issues. 13. General cleanup, trash pickup and beautification of the city, put up and take down flags on city holidays or when deemed appropriate by the Mayor or City Council. 14. Maintain the cleanliness inside and outside of City Hall. 15. Be present at City Hall If the City Secretary is absent during regular business hours. 16. Maintain confidentiality of information for the citizens of the city, refer questions to the City Secretary or the Mayor. 17. Turn in accurate timecard every Thursday. 18. Any other reasonable duty or task that the Mayor or a City Council member request in person or information relayed to the City Secretary and deems the duty or task necessary.