What are the responsibilities and job description for the Seasonal Maintenance Worker position at Blue Earth County?
Under direct supervision, the Seasonal Maintenance Worker performs highway maintenance work, assists sign crews, drives transports and operates County equipment, helps setup work zones, performs flagging duties, cleans up ditches and roadways, mows, general cleaning, painting, and complies with safety rules.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Performs Highway Maintenance work on roadways, ditches, parking lots, and parks such as shoveling and raking bituminous materials, patching potholes, mixing cement, and cleaning of ditches which may include debris and roadkill removal
- Assists sign crew with County road signs.
- Provides daily maintenance as required to equipment assigned.
- Drives, transports, and/or operates County equipment.
- Helps set up work zones with traffic control and performs flagging duties.
- Cleans up.
- Operates push mowers or small tractors with attached mowers cut grass in ditches and and/or parks. .
- Maintains and cleans buildings, facilities and vehicles including minor carpentry projects.
- Complies with safety rules and regulations. Reports unsafe conditions.
- Interacts Positively with Internal and External Customers. Communicates and interacts effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, individuals from other organizations, and customers.
- Performs the Physical and Mental Demands of the Position.
- Attends Work During Regularly Scheduled Hours or as directed.
- Performs Other Related Functions as Apparent or Assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- At least 18 years of age when the job begins.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in road work, construction, and traffic control.
- Experience operating various types of maintenance, construction, farm and road equipment.
- Possession of a CDL driver's license.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
- Must possess a valid driver's license and be able to drive in Minnesota
- Must successfully pass a background check.
- Must wear safety toe boots.
- Must comply with organizational and departmental policies and regulations.
- Must comply with data practices policies and standards relative to not public data. Any access to not public data should be strictly limited to accessing the data that are necessary to fulfill the employment responsibility. While data are being accessed, incumbent should take reasonable measures to ensure the not public data are not accessed by individuals without a work reason. Once the work reason to access the data is reasonably finished the not public data must be properly stored according to county policy and the Minnesota Statutes.
Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. / Summer hours Monday through Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Hours may vary and evening, weekend, holiday, and overtime hours may be required. While 40 hours per week is anticipated, there may be a reduction in hours due to rain days. Seasonal positions do not extend beyond 67 days (100 days for students) between April - November.