Level I: $5,357 - $6,512 per month
Level III: $5,625 - $6,837 per month
(appointment level will depend on background and experience)
Plus excellent benefits
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
THE CITY is focused on enhancing our community members’ quality of life through well-designed services and a positive workplace culture. San Rafael is the economic and cultural heart of Marin County, and its high quality of life is centered on its commercial districts, engaged neighborhoods, active lifestyle, and natural environment. San Rafael, with a population of approximately 60,000, is a full-service city with a City Council/City Manager form of government with 12 departments, more than 400 employees, and a fiscal year 2023-2024 annual budget of $172 million. The City’s vision is to be a vibrant economic and cultural center that reflects its diversity. The City Council is engaged and seeks to strengthen the urban and commercial areas as well as sustain the beautiful natural environment.
San Rafael’s Organizational culture framework is an initiative called “Together San Rafael.” City employees are our greatest asset, and we seek talented individuals with diverse backgrounds who are creative, curious, and excited about a challenge. We are a results-driven team focused on the needs of community members. The Together San Rafael initiative is focused on modernizing City services and increasing employee engagement. This initiative recognizes the interconnectedness of the customer and employee experience.
THE DEPARTMENT AND POSITION
The Department of Public Works is recruiting for a Street Maintenance Worker I/II to perform a variety of manual and semiskilled tasks involving the construction, repair, maintenance, and cleaning of streets, sidewalks, other concrete structures, storm drainage and related Public Works facilities. The Street Maintenance Worker operates light power driven, hand-held, and "walk behind" equipment.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (including but not limited to):
This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. CLICK HERE for the full job description.
- Performs manual and semiskilled work in street excavation and repair, asphalt laying, cold tar patching, concrete work, weed control spraying, street painting, street signing, and flushing, clearing and maintaining sewer and storm drainage pipelines, culverts, and pump stations.
- Uses shovels, rakes, other hand tools, jackhammers, asphalt saws, tampers, packers, dump trucks, rollers and spray equipment in the excavation, building up, patching and surfacing of streets.
- Performs or assists in finished concrete work by excavating and clearing areas, constructing forms, trucking and pouring concrete. Performs or assists with concrete leveling, floating, and finishing.
- Removes debris and assists in cleaning and clearing of sewer lines, catch basins, canals, pipelines, and pumping stations.
- Assists in maintenance, repair, or replacement of pumps, motors, valves, gates, and pipelines,.
- Prepares and installs traffic signs and related posts per specifications.
- Places traffic barriers and warning signs and directs traffic.
- Performs street painting and striping per specifications, using a variety of materials and related equipment.
- Assists in emergency repairs of Public Works facilities.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Street Maintenance Worker I:
- Equivalent to graduation from high school to provide necessary reading and communication skills;
- Prior experience in the operation of power driven equipment or previous maintenance experience is desirable but not required.
Street Maintenance Worker II:
- Equivalent to graduation from high school.
- Two years of increasingly responsible experience in the maintenance and construction of Public Works facilities equivalent to the Street Maintenance Worker I.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Street Maintenance Worker I:
- Valid California Driver's License
- Must obtain a Class B license prior to passing probation
Street Maintenance Worker II:
- Valid California Driver's License
- Effective July 1, 2010, employees hired or promoted into the SMWII position are required to obtain a Class B license prior to pass probationary period, and participate in the DOT program.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and taste or smell. the employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Hazards are moderate, fairly predictable and protected against.
