What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Aid- Landscape position at City of South El Monte?
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Prepares recreation fields for sport events and facilities for special events
Secures buildings, locks and unlocks rooms
Provides custodial services for facilities, removes trash, cleans floors, cleans, and stocks restrooms
Sweeps and mops floors
Cleans rugs and carpets; cleans and stocks restrooms
Empties and cleans waste receptacles, washes walls, windows, mirrors, and blinds
Removes trash from City property
Removes graffiti and paints structures, bulky items, and weed abatement
Maintains Park, open space areas, athletic fields, and ball courts
Mows, edges, weeds lawns, and other landscaped areas
Plants, prunes, or trims hedges, trees, flowers, and shrubs
Performs routine maintenance
Assists in traffic control by setting cones, signs, and barricades for safety purposes
Maintains accurate work logs
Performs related duties as assigned
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Experience:
Basic knowledge in street, building, and landscape maintenance.
Education:
Requires a High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalency.
Required Licenses and Certificates:
Possession of or ability to obtain a Class C California driver's license and a satisfactory driving record is required.
Additional requirements:
Responds to emergency calls from the public and other agencies taking appropriate action such as placing barricades and other related emergency actions.
Physical Demands:
Employees perform physically demanding work. While performing the duties of this job, employees are required to talk and hear. Employees are required to pull, push, stand, walk, sit, stoop, crouch, bend, crawl, climb,balance, and reach with both hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, feelor operate objects, tools, or controls. Employees must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally liftand/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions including temperature extremes, inclement weather, and poor air quality. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects or tools.
Work Schedule:
The primary schedule is Friday– Sunday between the hours of 6:00a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The successful candidate must be willing to work a flexible schedule.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
BUILDING MAINTENANCE
– Knowledge of materials, tools, and methods used in general building repair and maintenance; mechanical and electrical components; paints and painting techniques; plumbing supplies and techniques; basic carpentry; locksmithing; heating and air conditioning maintenance; custodial supplies and techniques; applicable safety procedures and practices.
LANDSCAPE
- Knowledge of equipment, materials and methods used in planting and maintaining a variety of plants; plant growing conditions; tree trimming and removal; aerial lift operations; turf irrigation systems; applicable safety procedures and practices.
STREETS
– Knowledge of tools, equipment, materials, and safe methods of street maintenance work including cement and asphalt repair, masonry, curb marking, street striping, and street sweeping.