Senior Tradesworker - Brick Maintenance

Description

WORK HOURS: 6:30 AM TO 3:00 PM with Stand-by hours
This is a skilled laboring position in which the individual works as part of a team, often in a leadership role, in the construction, renovation, and maintenance of all concrete and brick paver construction within the City of St. Cloud.

Duties and Responsibilities

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Coordinates, assigns, and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors the status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
• Demonstrates considerable knowledge of asphalt and masonry construction, including construction of forms, types of concrete and appropriate applications, calculation of quantities, and scheduling the delivery of materials to the job site.
• Performs all the work of subordinate staff including forming, pouring, and finishing concrete. Installation, construction, and repair of all city drainage systems. Leveling and finishing asphalt for road or street repairs. Installation, repair, and maintenance of brick pavers.
• Removes and repairs asphalt and concrete roadways, streets, walks, and driveways for the repair of sub-grade utilities, and the repair of the streets and walkways or sidewalks.
• Maintains records of work performed with duty assignments using computerized maintenance management systems. (City Works)
• Operates small and medium-sized equipment including concrete construction, brick paver installation, and cutting tools on the job as instructed.
• Install traffic control signs.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Physical Requirements:
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. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to walk; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. Must be able to routinely and repetitively lift and/ or move up to 25 lbs.; frequently lift and or move up to 50lbs.; and occasionally lift and or move up to 100lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Mathematics:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Language Ability:
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Reasoning:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions and confined spaces. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Benefits
St. Cloud Benefits Package
We believe our City employees to be our most valuable asset. To attract and retain those employees, we offer a competitive wages and benefits package including on-the-job training, seminars, and performance appraisals.
We invite you to look at the benefits the City of St. Cloud has to offer. We think you will find that the rewards of the job are equal to the challenge.
All of our Full-time regular employees are eligible for the city's benefits package.
Benefits

• 11 Paid Holidays for General Employees and Police Officers– The Fire department employees can earn up to 96 holiday hours per fiscal year prorated from the employee’s start date.
• One (1) Floating Holiday for General Employees and two (2) for Police Officers.
• Awards Programs
• Deferred Compensation Plan
• Discounted Automobile Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Holiday Bonus – subject to City Council approval
• Indianapolis Plan (Police Officers)
• Life and Accidental Death (One-time annual salary paid by City)
• Long Term Disability Coverage (paid by City)
• Management Leave
• Medical and Dental Coverage
• On-Site Employee Health Care Center
• Paid Vacation (Maximum of 440 hours for General employees and 624 for Fire Employees)
• Pension Plan
• Sick Leave Bank available for all employees - for Fire Union sick leave bank information, see union contract
• Sick Leave (Ability to roll over from year to year)