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WHY JOIN THE REDWOOD CITY TEAM?
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by core values of excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication.
The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun Public Works Services Department team that fosters innovation, creativity, and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.
ABOUT THE POSITION
The Public Works Maintenance Worker I is the entry-level classification in the series of Public Works Maintenance Worker. It is the journey level in the class series. The current two vacancies are in the Right of Way Division. Incumbents receive immediate supervision from higher-level staff progressing to general supervision with training and experience.
A few typical duties may include:
- Perform street maintenance duties; operate construction and maintenance equipment such as trucks, tractors, and skip loaders for a variety of construction and maintenance operations involving streets, sidewalks and gutters.
- Spread asphalt in patching and repairing streets.
- Use concrete cutting and breaking equipment; operate a jackhammer; pour and finish concrete, construct concrete forms and perform rough carpentry work.
- Set up traffic safety devices and barricades as necessary.
- Perform emergency street or other public service maintenance work as required.
- Paint or stencil such traffic directional markings as crosswalks, safety loading zones, bus stops, parking and center lines and railroad and school crossings.
- Paint light poles.
- Install, repair, and/or fabricate stop signs, parking signs, speed signs, railroad signs, and police watch signs.
- Install and maintain parking meter poles and electronic parking meter maintenance.
- Perform routine preventative maintenance on equipment as assigned.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
Ideal Candidate
Will embrace the City’s emphasis on excellent customer service; will be detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks; will use initiative and independent judgement; will be a team player who likes working with a variety of City staff and the public and have a sense of humor. The ideal candidate will also have public agency or special district experience, or have worked in the construction field with an emphasis on plumbing.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities are qualifying.
Education, Training & Experience
Public Works Maintenance Worker I: equivalent to the completion of twelfth grade.
Public Works Maintenance Worker II: one or two years similar to that of a Public Works Maintenance Worker I in the City of Redwood City.
License and Certification:
Public Works Maintenance Worker I:
- Possession of, or ability to obtain within one year of employment, a valid California Class A Commercial Driver’s License is required.
Public Works Maintenance Worker II: In addition to the qualifications for Maintenance Worker I, the II level class requires proficiency in one or more areas: street and sewer, water services, or traffic paint / sign, requiring most of the following:
- Possession of a valid California Class A Driver’s License is required.
Knowledge of:
- Uses and purposes of general construction tools and equipment.
- Safe work practices.
Ability to:
- Perform unskilled and semi-skilled tasks in a variety of construction and maintenance activities
- Understand and carry out oral and written instructions
- Learn skilled tasks in assigned area of work (street, sewer, water service, and traffic sign/paint work).
Physical Characteristics:
Must be able to perform heavy manual labor, work outside in varying climatic conditions, lift heavy objects, and be in sufficiently good health to perform job duties.
Special Instructions
A City application and responses to the supplemental questions are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to complete the application and supplemental questions will disqualify the applicant from the recruitment process. Failure to list work experience, education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes may be attached separately, but resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.