Maintenance Worker

New Hope is a well-maintained city of approximately 5.1 square miles. City staff maintain a good relationship with surrounding city governments, especially the City of Crystal with which the city shares an irregular boarder. As a maintenance worker, you will perform intermediate skilled trades work including a wide range of repair, construction and public works maintenance activities requiring operation of various types of heavy and light equipment and hand tools, and related work. Work is performed under the moderate supervision of the streets and parks supervisor, the utilities maintenance supervisor or the operations manager.

Qualification Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

• Inspects, maintains and/or repairs street right-of-ways, storm sewer systems, sanitary sewer systems and water systems at frequent intervals to insure that all aspects of the systems are functioning properly.
• Inspects, maintains and/or repairs playground equipment, park facilities, turf, ice rinks, hard courts, trees and shrubbery, etc.
• Maintains a variety of records relating to inspections and maintenance activity.
• Determines the locations of gas, telephone, power, television, water and sewer lines from the appropriate sources prior to excavation.
• Responds to emergency calls relative to poor street conditions, changes in water pressure or supply, slow sewers, etc.
• Interacts with citizens in a professional manner when informing them of a disruption of utility service or breakdown.
• Insures the proper maintenance of equipment and tools by cleaning and checking equipment and tools after use.
• Drives trucks and operates equipment of various sizes and weights in loading, hauling and unloading various equipment or materials.
• Performs routine inspection and preventative maintenance on assigned equipment and refers defects or needed repairs to appropriate personnel; cleans equipment.
• Adjusts, lubricates or makes small repairs to equipment while in use.
• Performs all duties to appropriate safety and security standards.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• General knowledge of streets, parks, utilities and or building maintenance.
• General knowledge of methods and materials used in maintenance and construction.
• General knowledge of equipment used in carrying out maintenance and construction.
• General knowledge of occupational hazards and established safety practices.
• General skill operating standard computer equipment and applicable hardware and software.
• General skill operating standard tools of the trade and ability to learn specialized equipment operation.
• Ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rates, ratios and percentages.
• Ability to follow written and oral directions and work without on-site supervision and make on-site decisions related to work assignments.
• Ability to train seasonal employees in fundamental job duties.
• Ability to communicate effectively with other city staff.
• Ability to communicate tactfully with public.
• Ability to physically perform job responsibilities.
• Ability to perform in adverse climatic conditions.
• Ability to work irregular hours and respond to off-duty-hours or stand-by needs for safe operation of the department.
• Ability to acquire new job skills as different needs arise.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with citizens, elected officials, consultants, other city staff, vendors and the general public.

• July 7 at noon - Application Deadline
• July 15 – Interview with Staff
• July 20 Evening– Interview with Personnel Board
• July 24 – Interview with City Manager and Public Works Director
• Preferred Candidate - Backgrounding, Physical and Drug Testing
• August – Start Date Time Frame