Public Works Equipment Operator I - Charlotte County, FL

Performs skilled work in the safe and efficient operation of heavy trucks, tractors, and other medium-sized equipment where driving and maneuvering the vehicle constitutes the majority of the work required to complete tasks for in a variety of public works, landfill, parks or utility construction and maintenance projects to include, grading, landscaping, excavating, landfill, roads, storm drainage systems, parks or similar projects.  Equipment in this classification involves operations that are moderately simple and routine.  

Public Works has openings at the San Casa yard in Englewood and the Punta Gorda Yard. The schedule for the Equipment Operator I position is 4–10-hour days, Monday-Thursday or Tuesday-Friday 7am-5:30pm.  

 
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Serves primarily as an operator of one or more kinds of assigned mechanized equipment utilized in the construction, alteration, repair, cleaning, and/or maintenance of various public works, landfill, parks or utility projects, to include, but not all inclusive of the following types of equipment: medium-duty flat bed, dump and tank trucks, tractor mowers, semi-tractor trailers, semi-trucks, roll-off trucks, small front-end loaders, platform mowers, farm tractors with attachments, tandem dump trucks, bull dozers, pay loaders, large mowers, slope mowers, backhoes, excavators, motor graders, bush hog, garbage compactor, and other similar equipment; may operate a motor grader for ditching, leveling, and smoothing to grade line on maintenance and construction projects.
• Operates a variety of hand and power tools such as jackhammers and chain saws.
• Loads and off-loads materials, supplies, or equipment: and cleans up at job site.
• Makes minor adjustments to and performs routine maintenance on equipment: and washes and cleans equipment after use.
• Sets up work zones to ensure crew safety.
• May collect and separate hazardous materials.
• Prepares daily/weekly activity reports.
• Provide exceptional customer assistance, problem-solving, and/or complaints by all forms of communication.