Job Description

Posting number: 33

Department: Recreation & Youth Development

Division: Park Maintenance

Job classification: Laborer 1

Posting type: Open

Categories: Recreation

Summary

The City of Jersey City (“the City”) is seeking a Laborer for the Department of Recreation & Youth Development, Division of Park Maintenance. This position is responsible for performing various types of manual and unskilled labor and may occasionally require driving a truck in connection with assigned duties.

Examples of duties

• Loads, lifts, and moves supplies, furniture, and equipment.
• Digs trenches and does manual grading.
• Cleans incinerators.
• Collects rubbish and other refuse.
• Cuts grass and trims hedges.
• Waters lawns, flowers, and vegetable beds.
• Loads and unloads trucks.
• Shovels snow, gravel, and sand.
• Whitewashes walls.
• Places forms used in concrete work.
• Performs cold patching.
• Cleans up underbrush, foliage, vines, and weeds.
• Cuts down trees.
• Digs out stumps of trees, and digs out and destroys poisonous vines, weeds, and undergrowth.
• Learns to operate construction and/or maintenance equipment.
• May learn to operate a pneumatic drill.
• May learn to operate and make minor repairs to the street, road, and related public works equipment.
• May rake asphalt mixtures used in paving to proper thickness and grade.
• May distribute asphalt mixtures to eliminate hollows and high spots on the surface under the construction or repair.
• May patch joints and edges of pavement with asphalt cement.
• May tamp and smooth asphalt pavement.
• Cleans sludge beds.
• Sweeps streets and sidewalks, and cleans sewers.
• Pries and hammers apart sections of wall and roof.
• Loads debris into the truck for removal.
• Sorts, piles, and cleans salvageable brick, stone, lumber, and metalwork.
• Performs other job duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Education: High School Diploma or GED.

Required Experience: One year of experience in performing labor manual and unskilled labor work preferred.

Required License: Possession of a valid New Jersey Driver’s license.

Preferred License: New Jersey Commercial Driver’s License is preferred

Supplemental information

This is a Civil Service Job and you must eventually pass and qualify for the applicable Civil Service title.

Please note that this role is subject to the residency requirements set forth by NJ First Act