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Maintenance II
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| Category: |
Precinct #4 |
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Closed |
| Salary: |
$24,845.00 Annual |
Serves as the general information for the Precincts. This is a responsible position that may involve minimal instruction or supervision. This is a skilled manual labor position involved with maintenance of county roads and right-of-way, or servicing and operation such as brush collection, road patch work, and drainage clearing. Performs all kinds of welding, brazing, and cutting using gas and electric welding equipment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilites:
- Loads materials, trash, brush, etc., onto truck. May sometimes unload the same.
- Assists in cleaning equipment, hand tools and truck.
- May perform minor repairs to the tools, equipment and truck.
- Ability to operate and maintain equipment that is used during projects to repair roads, brush pick-up, or clearing of drainage ditches.
- May install culverts and other road repairs.
- Cuts high grass or weeds and picks up brush along County right-of-way.
- Maintains shop area clean on daily basis.
- May patch County roads.
- May be required to operate a welder and fabricate and repair equipment by cutting, burning, and welding various metal materials.
- Regular attendance is a must.
- Ability to work well with others.
Education and/or Experience:
High School Diploma or General Education degree (GED) preferred.
Two (2) years experience; or
Any equivalent combination of experience and training, which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform duties.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Employee must have a current valid Texas Motor Vehicle Operator's License;
Must be able to be insured by the County's Insurance carrier.
Other Skills and Abilities:
- Must have basic knowledge of hand tools associated with manual labor and the minor repair of the equipment.
- Employees working in the installation of signs may use a jackhammer, pole hole digger, hole auger, air compressor, etc., but all employees will be trained on the job to handle such tools.
- Will patch county roads as part of the asphalt patching truck crew with aggregate gravel CRS2 (hot oil).
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules. Maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Bilingual ability (Spanish and English) with the ability to converse fluently in both languages, preferred.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure.
- Ability to solve simple and common sense problems and interpret simple instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form. Ability to understand, follow and give oral and written instructions.
- Must be able to perform all duties of Maintenance I.
- Employee may be assigned other duties in addition to those listed; duties may change according to the changing needs of the County.
Work Location:
Hidalgo County Precinct #4
Work Hours:
7:30am - 4:30pm Monday thru Friday (weekends and extended hours as needed, shall work a minimum of one weekend and/or holiday approximately every 3 months) |
| 7/26/2010 8:00 AM |
| 7/30/2010 5:00 PM |
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