Description:
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HIRING RATE: $17.00 Hourly
FULL SALARY RANGE: $17.00 - $23.52 Hourly
The City:
With over 100,000 residents, the City of Allen is a dynamic and welcoming community. The City of Allen's strong economy, diverse population, great educational institutions and quality of life makes it the ideal place to work, live, and play. The City of Allen has something to offer for everyone.
The City's Mission, is "To achieve excellence in managing development of the community and in providing city services so that conditions of living and public confidence are continually enhanced".
Our employees serve the citizens of Allen with the following values:
- People First – Giving priority to others
- Respect – Treating others with courtesy and dignity
- Integrity – Serving with honesty, trust and hard work
- Deliver – Following through on commitments while exceeding expectations
- Excel – Creating an innovative and improving work environment
The purpose of this position is to provide maintenance support to the City's Streets Department. This is accomplished by operating heavy equipment, patrolling City streets, identifying problematic roadways, determining best way to repair roadway and sidewalk damage, retrieving appropriate equipment and tools, filling potholes with appropriate mix, sealing cracks in streets, and repairing sidewalks. Other duties may include providing maintenance support by retrieving all debris from City's streets, assisting other departments as needed, completing special projects as requested, and interfacing with other City employees and citizens. This position does not provide direction to other employees.
Essential Functions
This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.
- Completes street maintenance by operating various heavy equipment, observing problematic cracks in streets, determining best way to complete repair, preparing crack seal machine, inserting tar into machine, heating hoses, blowing cracks with air to remove debris, rocks and dirt, utilizing crack seal machine to fill cracks with tar, and documenting all work completed.
- Repairs potholes and other damage to City's streets by operating motor vehicle, observing City's roadways, identifying problematic roadway hazards, retrieving appropriate equipment and tools from truck, using a saw to cut around pothole in street, operating steel roller to roll base, tacking outer edges, filling pothole with concrete or asphalt mix to patch street damage, utilizing loader machinery to back drag, raking area to obtain smooth edges, maneuvering steel roller over area to compact mix, and documenting work completed.
- Maintains City's sidewalks by identifying problematic sidewalk areas, breaking sidewalk area, setting forms for new sidewalk, filling with concrete mix, ensuring shape of sidewalk, installing rebar such as dowel bars, operating various equipment and documenting all work completed.
- Maintains City's streets by patrolling streets and related area for litter and debris, collecting debris from streets, greenbelts, right of ways, underpasses and overpasses within City's limits, storing debris in vehicle, operating equipment to clear streets from debris, transporting debris to collection facilities, maintaining log of materials collected, and documenting actions and procedures as required.
- Assists other departments as needed by providing maintenance support to Parks and Recreation, Drainage and Water and Sewer, completing irrigation repair as necessary and signs, buttons and markings activities, working on special projects as assigned, and documenting all work completed.
Job Requirements
Education & Experience
Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:
- High School diploma or equivalent with no prior relevant experience
Other combinations of education and experience may be considered
Certification and Other Requirements
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Valid Class C Drivers License
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Texas Class A Drivers License (CDL), or the ability to obtain within twelve (12) months of hire. The City provides training and equipment needed to obtain Class A CDL.
Overall Physical Strength Demands
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