Position Overview
The Street Maintenance Worker plays a vital role in performing routine and emergency maintenance, repair, and upkeep of streets, parking lots, curbs, sidewalks, and trail systems. This position emphasizes strong teamwork, a positive and service-oriented attitude, and a high level of pride in delivering quality work. Employees in this role collaborate closely with fellow staff to ensure safe and efficient multi-modal transportation.
Street Maintenance Workers are expected to approach daily tasks with reliability, respect, and enthusiasm, contributing to a supportive work environment where cooperation and accountability are valued. Attention to detail, willingness to assist teammates, and commitment to maintaining high standards are essential to success in this role.
Through consistent effort and teamwork, the Street Maintenance Worker helps create efficient transportation systems that reflect community pride and promote positive user experiences.
Expected Hours of Work
Hours are typically Monday-Friday from 7 am to 3 pm. In addition to working hours, staff may be required to work additional events, including participation in scheduled rotation of stand-by duties.
Hours may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform these essential functions involving construction, operation and maintenance of City streets:
1. Construct and maintain streets, parking lots, bridges, alleys, and other City property, including pothole patching, cut-outs, paving, milling, and deploying traffic control or directing traffic to protect the work site.
2. Use concrete materials and processes to repair and maintain City sidewalks and curbs.
3. Repair and maintain traffic signs, pavement markers, street lights, and traffic signals in compliance with Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
4. Continually clean and sweep streets, parking lots, trails, alleys, and other City property.
5. Perform forestry tasks including tree-trimming and tree removal.
6. Ensure clear and safe winter streets by plowing, distributing winter chemicals, shoveling, and snow-blowing City streets and affiliated properties.
7. Operate and maintain city vehicles and equipment.
8. Assist with public works maintenance responsibilities across other divisions as needed.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position does not have employee supervisory responsibilities.
Minimum Qualifications
- 18 years of age or older.
- High School diploma or GED.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Valid MN Commercial Class A driver’s license, or ability to obtain within 12 months of start date.
- Ability to operate computer.
- Ability to operate equipment, acquire licenses, and complete trainings required for this position.
- Ability to complete the essential duties and responsibilities of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with safe operation and maintenance of hand tools, power tools, and both heavy and light construction and maintenance equipment.
- Two years street maintenance experience, including paving, concrete, and equipment maintenance.
- Experience working in other divisions of municipal Public Works (Parks, Utilities, and/or Vehicle Maintenance).
- Experience working with an asset management software program.
Competencies
• Communication • Inclusion
• Customer Focus • Decision-Making
• Teamwork • Ethics
• Positive Attitude • Organization
• Hard Work • Problem Solving
Work Environment & Physical Demands
Work is most often conducted outdoors, often under adverse and extreme weather conditions. Exposure to hazardous conditions, including operating power tools and equipment, and toxic materials, including raw sewage, garbage, landscaping chemicals, and hot asphalt. Employee is subject to noise while operating equipment and general noises in outdoor city environments.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:
- Regularly read and interpret documents and other written material.
- Regularly communicate and exchange information with others through in-person meetings, telephones, computers, and written communication methods.
- Regularly remain in a stationary position and regularly move within the building to attend meetings and access machinery.
- Frequently operate and maintain both heavy and light equipment/tools consistently found in public city street, park, and utility operations and maintenance and/or construction.
- Frequently push/pull equipment and objects, traverse around the city, climb ladders, ditches and manholes, and move within confined spaces.
- Regularly operate computers, radios, and mobile devices.
- Frequently move or transport items weighing up to 50 pounds.
EEO Statement
The City of Golden Valley is an Equal Opportunity Employer in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.
