Job Description

Posting number: FY2600832

Department: Public Works

Division: Public Works

Job classification: Street Maintenance Worker II

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Public Works

Summary

An employee working in this position maintains all rigid and flexible pavements and structures within the City boundaries utilizing a variety of heavy equipment and pavement maintenance specific machinery, in accordance with the standards and guidelines of the City of Goodyear, State of Arizona and the Federal government.

The ideal candidate is a dependable, safety-focused team member with at least two years of hands-on experience applying crack seal or performing similar roadway construction or maintenance work. This individual understands temporary traffic control principles and can help establish and maintain work zones per MUTCD guidelines.

Ideal Candidate - Key Qualifications and Attributes

• Relevant experience: At least two years of experience applying crack seal or completing comparable roadway construction, pavement preservation, or street-maintenance work.
• Traffic-control knowledge: Working knowledge of MUTCD requirements and temporary traffic control practices, including the proper placement, inspection, adjustment, and removal of signs, cones, barricades, and other devices.
• Safety commitment: Consistently follows safe work practices, uses required personal protective equipment, identifies hazards, and takes prompt action to protect team members and road users.
• Team orientation: Communicates clearly, follows direction, supports coworkers, and contributes reliably in a fast-paced outdoor work environment.
• Equipment readiness: Demonstrates the ability and willingness to safely operate vehicles, tools, and equipment used in crack-sealing and roadway-maintenance operations.
• Dependability: Reports to work prepared and on time, adapts to changing field conditions, and maintains attention to detail throughout each assignment.
• Preferred license: A valid Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) is preferred.

At the City of Goodyear, you will be a part of an organization that values its employees as its greatest asset. You will become part of a dedicated team of professionals that are committed to build and maintain a highly engaged workforce. You will be challenged to learn and grow in an environment that values employee development and career-building. You will thrive in a culture of innovation. We believe that successful employees are those that possess these six core values:

Adaptability - Integrity - Initiative - Empathy - Optimism – Innovation

Only a limited number of the most qualified applicants meeting the City's requirements will be invited for an interview. The examination process for this position will consist of a panel interview. All communication regarding application status and interview notifications will be sent via email- please monitor your junk/spam email for communication as it will come from a system generated source.

A valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) is preferred and will be given priority consideration during the hiring process.

Examples of duties

This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following functions do not identify all duties performed by the incumbent. Other duties and responsibilities will be performed as assigned.

• Maintains roadways by filling potholes, sealing cracks, setting up detailed and complex traffic control systems according to the MUTCD and Phoenix barricade manual, and operating a variety of heavy equipment such as the backhoe, compaction roller, gannon tractor and three ton roller. Operates jackhammers and pneumatic compacting equipment. Operates a 4-yard or 6-yard dump truck and self-contained patch truck. Operates air compressors, hydraulic tools and other similarly sized maintenance equipment. Operates a spray injection patcher in operation of pothole filling, skin patching, and shoulder repair. Utilizing an asphalt coring machine, takes core samples and properly logs them for historical data. Drives various size trucks when traveling to and from job sites.
• Maintains 30 miles of unpaved roadways and shoulders utilizing a Road Grader, nine wheel pneumatic roller, and Water truck. Responsible for submitting blue stake requests and ensuring they are completed prior to beginning work.
• Maintains the City’s Storm Drain system through routine inspections and maintenance. Completes minor repairs on storm drain structures and grates.
• Performs administrative duties by maintaining an inventory of tools, traffic control devices, street signs, and equipment in a spreadsheet as needed. Measures cuts for ordering of materials for projects. Provides maintenance of asphalt and concrete. Occasionally is requested to create detailed traffic control plans for submittal. Creates reports and spreadsheets to track information such as coring samples and inspections.
• Performs inspections on roads which includes mapping of certain types of surfaces and conditions. Performs inspection on the City storm drain system logging any failures or immediate concerns.
• Routinely assists the Traffic Operations Worker II in sign maintenance and installation, striping placement, and retro-reflectivity testing using specialized testing equipment.
• Assists the street sweeping section as needed by operating sweeping units on scheduled routes and in emergency situations. Completes after hours standby services on a rotational basis. Responds to all emergency after hours events such as vehicular accidents and roadway flooding.
• Performs Labor intensive work on City Streets and ROW in extreme temperatures in excess of 100 degrees.

Qualifications

• Formal Education/Knowledge: Work requires knowledge necessary to understand basic operational, technical, or office processes. Level of knowledge equivalent to four years of high school or equivalency.
• Experience: Minimum one year experience in a related field.
• Certifications and Other Requirements: Commercial Driver’s License or ability to obtain within 12 months of hire.
• Reading: Work requires the ability to read The Phoenix Barricade Manual, The M.U.T.C.D., The FHWC Pavement Management Guidelines, The IMSA Work zone Study Guide, The City of Goodyear Engineering Standards and Guidelines manual, MAG Specifications Manual, A.D.O.T. Specifications Manual, IMSA Roadway Lighting Study Guide, Cart'e Graph's (4) and Operational Manuals.
• Math: Work requires the ability to perform general math calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Writing: Work requires the ability to write reports, documentation's, work orders and college level critical and evaluative reading skills.
• Managerial: Semi-Complex- Work requires the occasional direction of helpers, assistants, seasonal employees, interns, or temporary employees.
• Policy/Decision Making: Moderate - The employee normally performs the duty assignment after receiving general instructions as to methods, procedures, and desired end results. There is some opportunity for discretion when making selections among a few, easily identifiable choices. Work involving discretion is typically reviewed before finalized.
• Technical Skills: Broad Application - Work requires the use of standard technical skills appropriate to the work environment of the organization. Limited analysis and independent thinking is utilized.
• Interpersonal/Human Relations Skills: Moderate - In addition to the sharing of information, interactions at this level may also include providing advice to others outside direct reporting relationships on specific problems or general policies/procedures. In many of the interactions, contacts may require the consideration of different points of view to reach agreement. Elements of persuasion may be necessary to gain cooperation and acceptance of ideas.

Supplemental information

3 Months of Employment:

1. Demonstrate the ability to work cohesively as a team.
2. Become familiar with the Street Maintenance Divisions Standard Operating Procedures and Job Hazard Analysis documents
3. Demonstrate ability to identify key components of crackseal kettle, perform start up and shutdown procedures, and operate following all operating and safety procedures.

6 Months of Employment;

1. Successfully complete a traffic control certification program.
2. Successfully complete PM-10 course obtaining certification.
3. Demonstrate the ability to identify asphalt cracks that should be filled and those that should not.
4. Demonstrated the ability to properly identify and clean asphalt cracks prior to sealing.

12 Months of employment:

1. Demonstrate ability to identify asphalt deterioration such as alligatoring, depressions, rutting etc.
2. Demonstrate the ability properly set up and take down a proper traffic control restriction following MUTCD and Phoenix Barricade Manual guidelines.