Public Works Technician en City of Murfreesboro, TN

About the Department

This position is considered a Safety-Sensitive position. Applicants who pass the interview process will be subject to drug and alcohol testing.

General Description:

The purpose of this position is to provide manual labor for the assigned division within the City.

Position Duties

Basic Essential Functions:

• Must be able to communicate with others in spoken and written English to ensure the safe and efficient operations of the business.

• Safely performs extreme physical labor for extended periods. Work is performed outdoors under all weather conditions.
• Ascend and descend ladders up to 24 feet high.
• Manipulates both large and small tool parts.
• Cleans and maintains all equipment, tools, and vehicles. 
• Responsible for snow and ice removal, salts roads and walkways as needed.

• Respond to natural disasters. 
• Participate in on-call and standby duties, which involve working alone or with co-workers at night, weekends, and holidays to resolve situations that occur after normal business hours.
• Performs other work as assigned.

Additional Functions

• Trims grass, removes branches, and picks up litter in the right of ways and medians around the City.
• Works on construction and road repair crews; drives manual and automatic single axel dump trucks; picks up loads of gravel, binder, or topping; drives to landfill to dump construction debris.
• Signals dump truck drivers for dumping gravel or hot mix, operates come along and loop to smooth gravel and hot mix; operates packer or roller to smooth gravel and hot mix.
• Operates concrete saw to cut out trouble spots in road and sidewalks.
• Operates paving saw, packer, jack hammer, rakes, shovels, and push broom.
• Loads and unloads materials such as dirt, asphalt, salt, storm drainpipes, and sign materials.
• Removes and replaces manhole covers which can weigh up to 165 pounds.
• Climbs in and out of manholes which can be up to 10 feet deep.
• Run maps when weather does not allow for normal job duties, checks for problems with street drainage, road failures, street signs, and vegetation obstruction of street signs.

Physical Demands:

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires High School diploma or GED equivalent; may be waived by work experience.    
• Requires some experience as a manual laborer or closely related experience.  
• Must be able to work flexible hours with some weekend, evening, and holiday work required.

Special Certifications and Licenses:

Other Qualifications