Maintenance Laborer (Seasonal)

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SEASONAL JOB OPPORTUNITY

•Maintenance LaborerThe City of Concord Public Works Department is hiring Maintenance Laborers to perform a variety of duties pertaining to community betterment. Duties vary depending upon assignment. This recruitment is open and continuous, and the list established by this recruitment may be used to fill future part-time, limited term vacancies for up to one year, as vacancies arise.

Maintenance Laborers assigned to Parks Maintenance will assist in maintaining the cleanliness of the City's parks so that they are well kept for the enjoyment of our residents.

Maintenance Laborers assigned to the Community Cleanup crew will assist in litter/trash pick-up, graffiti abatement and public outreach.

The Public Works DepartmentPublic Works strives to develop and provide a variety of customer driven maintenance services and programs to protect the City's investment of infrastructure and public facilities and ensure the health and safety of Concord's community in the most efficient and cost effective manner. Public Works provides services in the following five divisions: Infrastructure, Parks Maintenance, Facilities Maintenance, Administration and Fleet, and Transportation and Signals.

What you will be doing: Under direct supervision and independently, the Maintenance Laborer will perform litter/trash pick-up, restroom clean-up, general maintenance, leaf/debris pick-up, graffiti abatement, and public outreach, depending upon assignment.

Part Time/Seasonal Maintenance Laborers are hired by the City's Public Works Department throughout the year, and on an as-needed basis. These are part-time/temporary positions, limited to 960 hours per fiscal year and provide no benefits.

SELECTION PROCESS1.

Submit a completed City of Concord and the required supplemental question responses online at www.cityofconcord.org. Only application materials submitted online during the filing period will be accepted.2. All qualified applications and supplemental responses will be competitively evaluated, and passing candidates will be referred to the Public Works Department for review.3. Those candidates demonstrating the strongest qualifications will be invited to interview.4. Successful candidates will be provided a conditional offer letter, and must clear the DOJ live scan, medical evaluation, drug screen, driving history and other related components.

Conviction History:

If you receive a conditional job offer, you will be fingerprinted, and your fingerprints will be sent to the California Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The resulting report of your conviction history (if any) will be used to determine whether the nature of your conviction conflicts with the specific duties and responsibilities of the job for which you have received a conditional job offer. If a conflict exists, you will be asked to present any evidence of rehabilitation that may mitigate the conflict, except when federal or state regulations bar employment in specific circumstances. Having a conviction history does not automatically preclude you from a job with the City of Concord.

Driving History/Medical Examination/Drug Screen:

If you receive a conditional job offer, you will be required to demonstrate a clean driving history for the previous seven year period in order to qualify. You will also be required to pass a medical examination and a drug screen.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES

Parks MaintenanceAssisting with basic grounds-keepingPublic Works maintenance and construction activitiesPick up and removing trashMaintaining park restroomsLeaf/debris clean-upPerforming data entry relevant to parks assets, work order management, and other relevant platformsOther duties as assignedStreets MaintenanceClears and cleans roadsides, gutters, culverts, catch basins, and other drainage facilitiesPicks up garbage and litter; cleans sidewalks, driveways, and parking areasAssists Maintenance Response Team in illegal dumping and encampment cleanup in City right of way and multi-jurisdictional areasOther duties as assignedSewer MaintenanceAssists in removing debris from sewers and in pulling, cleaning, repairing, or inspecting equipment through sewer linesOther duties as assignedTraffic Safety/Signals MaintenanceAssists in filling paint supply tanks, moving and placing stencils or traffic warning devices, and in placing posts and mounting signsOther duties as assignedBuilding MaintenanceAssists the Graffiti Removal Program to remove graffiti in and around City limits within 24 hours in response to the Graffiti Hotline.

Other duties as assignedFor Most PositionsOperates, services, cleans and cares for tools and equipment used on the jobFollows safe work practices and observes safety precautionsPerforms a variety of physical labor as assigned.

Reads and interprets maps and basic blueprints.

May assist in community and public outreach efforts to promote Public Works projects and programsPromotes the City's Mission to make Concord a city of the highest quality by providing responsive, cost-effective, and innovative government services; understands and subscribes to the Vision and Values Statement adopted by the CityPerforms other work as assigned