Maintenance Worker I - G114 Cemetery - G114 en Columbus Consolidated Government, GA

About the Department

This position performs cemetery maintenance duties.

• Opens and closes graves using a backhoe or a shovel. Ensures that department cars and trucks are in good working order by checking lights, brakes, oil, water, and gas. 
• Ensures that department equipment including backhoes, weed eaters, blowers, lawn mowers, saws, and hedge trimmers are in good working order. 
• Ensures that cemeteries are clean and that grass is cut around all graves; performs perpetual care on appropriate lots. 
• Oversees inmates on the job site; transports inmates to and from the prison. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Position Duties

• Knowledge of department policies and procedures.
• Skill in the operation of a backhoe and other small equipment. 
• Skill in operating automobiles. Skill in interpersonal relations. 
• Skill in organization. 
• Skill in oral and written communication.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. No experience requirements. This position is required to supervise state inmate labor. Employee must pass the Department of Corrections three-day certification within the time frame required by this department which is normally six months but may be altered. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid commercial driver's license (CDL) issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.

Other Qualifications

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise. 
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading. 
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision. 
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures. 
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment. 
• Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts. 
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed outdoors, occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, and machinery with moving parts. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.

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