Short-Term Teamster

General Statement of Duties / Distinguishing Features of the Class

This is a short-term position designed to support our team during a busy and important season. The position is expected to last six months, with an anticipated end date of March 31, 2026. It’s a great chance to contribute your skills and gain valuable experience.

In this position, you'll operate trucks and construction equipment to build, maintain, and repair the roads, bridges, culverts, public spaces and sewage collection system that people rely on every day. If you take pride in community, enjoy working outdoors, and want to make a lasting impact, we’d love to have you on board.

This is responsible work involving the operation of a dump truck and related vehicles and equipment in support of the construction, maintenance and repair of City-County streets, roads, and sewage collection system. The work is performed under the general direction and supervision of the Road Superintendent or Sewer Maintenance Superintendent, but some leeway is granted for the exercise of independent judgement and initiative. The nature of the work performed requires that an employee in this class establish and maintain close cooperative working relationships with the Road Superintendent, supervisors, employees, business owners, homeowners, and the general public.

This position is covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City-County of Butte-Silver Bow and the Teamsters Local #2.

Examples of Essential Work (Illustrative Only)

• Operates trucks and pulls trailers to haul, distribute and place asphalt, sand, gravel, equipment and other roadway surface or construction materials.
• Operates trucks, snowplows and sanding equipment in all weather conditions.
• At times, performs lubrication and service maintenance duties on all types of vehicles and heavy equipment, in addition to daily vehicle inspections.
• Replaces and repairs traffic and street signs as needed.
• Operates flusher truck, street sweeper, garbage truck, and others as required.
• Removes junk, garbage and other debris as assigned.
• Attends meetings, conferences and workshops as requested and authorized.
• Performs related work as required.
• Performs all duties and work assignments in a safe, healthy, and environmentally sound manner. Specifically, complying with the Health & Safety Program; maintaining work areas in a safe and orderly manner; identifying and reporting unsafe conditions; reporting all accidents; wearing required personal protective equipment; and attending safety-related meetings, training sessions, fit testing, etc.
• Performs all duties and work assignments in compliance with project quality requirements.
• Acts responsibly and ethically, and in conformance with generally accepted business, occupational, and professional standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Experience, Training, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Good knowledge of the operation and maintenance of dump trucks, street sweepers, snowplows, flushers and other street maintenance equipment, transports with low boy, belly dump and pup trailer.
• Good knowledge of service and lubrication maintenance to vehicles, trucks and other operating equipment is preferred.
• Good knowledge of traffic safety and laws as they apply to the operation of assigned equipment.
• Skill in the operation of trucks and other assigned equipment.
• Ability to communicate well with supervisors, other employees, and the general public.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, supervisory personnel, and the general public.
• Ability to use logical and creative thought processes to develop solutions according to written specifications and/or oral instructions.
• Ability to perform a wide variety of vehicle operation tasks with accuracy and speed under the pressure of time-sensitive deadlines, in both normal and emergency situations and in all forms of weather.
• Ingenuity and inventiveness in the performance of assigned tasks.
• Experience loading equipment on low boy.
• Must have knowledge and experience in all regulations pertaining to chaining and securing all types of heavy equipment on the transport trailer and experience of loading heavy equipment on the transport trailer, for example, backhoe, dozers, loader, land, etc.

• Graduation from high school; and
• Considerable experience operating large trucks and construction equipment; or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the work.

• Possession of a Commercial Driver's License issued by the State of Montana. Some positions within this class may require possession of a Commercial Driver's License with specialized endorsements.
• Class A endorsement.
• Pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screen and register with the Federal Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse.
• Must be a resident of Butte-Silver Bow during employment according to Butte-Silver Bow Ordinance. See below.

• Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to communicate well with supervisors, employees and the general public.
• Sufficient vision, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to safely operate motor vehicles and general construction equipment.
• Sufficient manual dexterity, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to operate trucks, construction equipment controls and operating systems.
• Sufficient personal mobility, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to enter, operate, control and exit vehicles and perform general labor associated with the hauling and placement of roadway surface and other construction materials.

Additional City-County information

The City-County is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical disability, or veteran status.

The job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities. Tasks and duties of the employee may differ from those outlined above.

There are no benefits associated with this position.