Maintenance Worker I

This recruitment will remain open until a sufficient number of applications are received. The City reserves the right to limit the applications considered to the first 40 applicants. This recruitment may close at any time. Apply immediately. This recruitment is to fill current vacancies in the HOPE team's night shift. This position will work a 9/80 alternate schedule, with alternate Wednesdays off, and will require working weekends and evenings. The City reserves the right to use recruitment for future vacancies in other divisions for the term of the eligibility list.
The City of Norwalk is seeking a compassionate and skilled Maintenance Worker I to join the HOPE team in the Public Safety Department. The ideal candidate will perform various unskilled and semi-skilled tasks related to the maintenance, repair, and custodial services of City buildings and facilities. This includes parks and recreation buildings, open spaces, City streets, sidewalks, sewers, and stormwater facilities. The role involves operating trucks and heavy equipment, using different hand and power tools, and performing related duties as needed. Depending upon assignment, essential duties include but are not limited to, the following:

PARKS
Maintains and cleans parks and open space areas around City buildings, park facilities including picnic areas and barbecues, restrooms and athletic fields; performs routine landscaping including, planting, trimming, weeding and fertilizing; assists with layout of ball diamonds; assists with maintenance of irrigation systems; assists with graffiti removal in parks.

FACILITIES
Provides custodial services for facilities, including floors, cleaning restrooms, and removal of trash; sweeps, mops, scrubs, strips, polishes, and waxes floors; cleans rugs and carpets; dusts, polishes, and waxes furniture and woodwork; cleans and stocks restrooms; empties and cleans waste receptacles and ashtrays; washes walls, windows, mirrors, and blinds; responsible for building security; locking and unlocking rooms; moves furniture or other heavy objects for set up of City functions. Assists with preparation of surfaces for painting; applies paint, varnish, shellac, enamel, or other protective finishes to various surfaces. Assists with routine painting, plumbing, electrical and carpentry maintenance and repair. Assists with graffiti removal on city buildings and facilities.

STREETS
Assists with the repair and maintenance of streets, curbs, sidewalks and storm drains; breaks up concrete and/or asphalt surfaces; digs, shovels, hauls and loads and unloads soils, sands, asphalt mixes and other materials; operates hand, power and heavy equipment related to street maintenance; sand seals surfaces; prepares for overlays; cleans up work sites upon completion of jobs; observes safe work methods and safety practices, including the coning and flagging at work sites to secure from traffic; responds to emergency situations as required.

TREES/GREENSCAPE
Assists with root and tree maintenance including planting, pruning, removal, watering, trimming and cleanup; spreads wood chips; digs, shovels, hauls, loads and unloads soil, plants, and trees; installs, repairs, and maintains irrigation systems in medians and parkways; assists with landscape refurbishment projects for medians and parkways; operates hand, power, and heavy equipment related to tree and greenscape maintenance; responds to emergency situations as required; observes safe work methods and safety practices including coning and flagging at work sites to secure from traffic; cleans up work sites upon completion of jobs.

TRAFFIC
Assists with traffic sign repairs and replacement, traffic striping and legend painting; provides maintenance and refurbishment of dead-end barricades; assists with sewer maintenance operations; responds to emergency situations including traffic delineation and temporary signage as required; observes safe work methods and safety practices including the coning and flagging at work sites to secure from traffic; cleans up work sites upon completion of jobs.

PUBLIC SAFETY

Maintains and cleans public places and open space areas including streets, sidewalks, parks, railroads, riverbeds, and business properties. Performs routine removal and disposal of trash and debris, including makeshift shelters and transient camp items. Assists Public Safety Officers in homeless outreach, including educating individuals on available services and providing referral information. Operates hand, power, and heavy equipment related to debris removal. Responds to priority situations including the removal of health and safety hazards. Observes safe work methods and safety practices at all work sites.

Knowledge of: tools, equipment, methods and materials used in building, facility, parks, trees/greenscape, traffic and streets maintenance.

Ability to: learn to perform construction, custodial, landscaping and general maintenance work; perform work effectively and safely with others; understand and follow oral and written directions.

Education and/or Experience
Any combination of education and/or experience that has provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for satisfactory job performance. Graduation from high school or equivalent is required. Must exhibit willingness to learn and perform duties associated with grounds, building maintenance, custodial work and street maintenance.

Required licenses and Certificates

Possession of or ability to obtain an appropriate California driver's license and a satisfactory driving record.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment 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.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, grasp, feel, perform repetitive motions or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach
with hands and arms. Employees are regularly required to pull, push, walk, stand, crouch, kneel and stoop. Depending on assignment, employees are frequently required to balance and climb. The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

Depending on assignment, the employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds frequently, in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific visual abilities required by this job include those required for those who operate cars, trucks, and other heavy equipment.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job and depending on assignment, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions, works near moving mechanical parts and is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibration; works in precarious places and is exposed to fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electric shock. The noise level in the work environment is frequently loud in field settings.

SELECTION PROCESS
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