Street Maintenance Crew Leader

The Streets Maintenance Crew Leader plays a key role in the maintenance and repair of the City's transportation system and it's components. This is a lead worker position for the Public Works Department. An employee in this classification is responsible for leading a crew or multiple crews in the maintenance, repair and construction of City rights-of-ways. Duties include driving/operating a wide variety of equipment and providing training and work direction to subordinates to accomplish assigned duties. Work is performed independently after receiving general instructions from a supervisor.

In the Public Works Street Operations Division, they pride themselves on being both a reactive and a proactive division and they strive to continually improve service to their customers. This goal is reflected in their Mission Statement.
"To be proactive in our approach to maintaining City rights-of-way and respond to the needs of both internal and external customers at the highest level possible."
This recruitment will be used to establish a Civil Service Eligible List that will be used to fill Street Maintenance Crew Leader positions as they occur for a period of one year.

Essential Duties:

·               Oversee and participate in the maintenance, repair, and construction of City rights-of-way to include streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, roadway base/sub-base, and other related facilities.  

·                Act as the onsite lead worker; enforce safety practices and procedures; instruct on methods for the expedient accomplishment of operations; and control the quality of workmanship, quantity of work produced, and protection of equipment and materials.

·                Discuss work to be performed with supervisors, assign tasks to individuals at the work site; monitor work in progress at the worksite; direct corrections and modifications as appropriate, keeping superiors informed of any potential performance concerns.

               Use initiative and independent judgment within established policy and procedural guidelines to work effectively in the absence of close supervision; identify and implement effective courses of action to complete assigned work.

·                Maintain a positive and productive environment ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, goals, and objectives of the City, Department, and Division.

·                Responsible for enhancing employee performance through establishing and communicating clear expectations and evaluating performance in a fair and professional manner.

·                Operate a variety of equipment such as but not limited to asphalt paver, asphalt rollers/compactor, tandem and single axle dump trucks, skid steer loader and attachments, crack pouring machine, concrete truck, graders, sweepers, front-end loaders, fork lift and other related maintenance and construction equipment; operate a variety of hand tools in the performance of construction and maintenance tasks.

·                Plan and establish traffic safety patterns, setting up and removing signage, cones, and barricades as appropriate to ensure job site and public safety.

·                Maintain accurate records according to established procedures both in writing and utilizing a computer. Learn the operation of computers and various computer software programs.

·                Respond to emergency calls during work and may be subject to call out during non-work hours to include nights, weekends, and holidays.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: 

• Outdoor environment; subject to adverse weather conditions and noise; subject to responding to emergency calls during non-work hours to include nights, weekends, and holidays.

• This position requires performing heavy manual labor.

• Employees in this class are exposed to road hazards, potentially hazardous materials and equipment.