Motor Equipment Operator II

Posting number: 00967

Department: Street Operations

Job classification: Motor Equipment Operator II

Posting type: Open

Categories: Public Works

Summary

General Description
The purpose of this class within the organization is to excavate and repair water lines. 
This class works under close supervision according to set procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the class as necessary.

Examples of duties

Essential Functions:

Operates (drive and control) excavating machines to include backhoe, bulldozers, tractors, forklift and front-end loaders to access leaking water lines.
 
Repairs water lines.
 
Backfills holes and replaces asphalt.
 
Operates and drives dump trucks to haul materials from the job site to the land field.
 
Clears the site of debris and checks for underground utilities.
 
Preforms preventative maintenance on sewer lines and manholes.
 
Operates heavy machinery.
 
Restores site to original condition.
 
Removes trash in City buildings.
 
Digs out and repair sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
 
Loads trucks with materials for jobs.
 
Additional Duties:
Cuts grass; sets up work signs.

Performs related work as assigned.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts Data Responsibility:
Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation.  Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
 
Gathers, organizes, analyzes, examines or evaluates data or information and may prescribe action based on these data or information.
 
People Responsibility:
People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.
 
Serves others such as customers, attends to their requests and exchanges information with them.
 
Asset Responsibility:
Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
 
Requires some responsibility for achieving minor economies and/or preventing minor losses through the handling of or accounting for materials, supplies or small amounts of money.
 
Mathematical Requirements:
Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.
 
Uses addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and/or calculates ratios, rates and percents.

Communications Requirements:
Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
 
Reads simple sentences, instructions or work orders; writes simple sentences and completes simple job forms; speaks simple sentences using basic grammar.
 
Judgment Requirements:
Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.
 
Responsible for guiding others, requiring a few decisions, affecting the individual and a few co-workers; works in a stable environment with clear and uncomplicated written/oral instructions, but with some variations from the routine.
 
Complexity of Work:
Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration and creativity, required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.
 
Performs semi-skilled work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.
 
Impact of Errors:
Impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals.
 
The impact of errors is moderately serious – affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.
 
Physical Demands:
Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.<