Maintenance Specialist, Senior (Stormwater Mainline)

Work, Serve, Thrive.  With the City of Durham

Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.

Hiring Range:  $48,436.00 - $57,779.00

Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Top-notch management, highly qualified, competent staff and opportunities for career advancement and professional success make the City of Durham's Public Works Department a great place to work. Our consistent and steady work environment sets us apart from traditional construction-related worksites, and our exceptional benefits and retirement plans support your long-term success. We create the foundation on which Durham is built, using innovative methods that support the City's growth and enhance our quality of life. We need innovative, highly qualified talent to do that. If growing professionally while serving your community is for you, bring your skills to Durham!

Devoted to maintaining and repairing City property, vehicles, roads and traffic systems, equipment and facilities, providing custodial services, and collecting, transporting and disposing municipal solid and yard waste through the performance of semi-skilled and skilled labor and technical work.  Provide specialized paraprofessional and skilled technical maintenance work that requires sufficient subject-matter knowledge and expertise in an assigned field to reconcile and verify the work of others; train others; serve as an escalation point for problem-solving; coordinate processes; implement policies and procedures and provide technical assistance to higher level staff. Decision-making is limited to organizing tasks in more complex operational processes that include coordination of logistics and handling of unanticipated factors within standard policies and procedures to meet established goals.  Perform highly technical maintenance work or lead work crews performing basic and complex labor, equipment operation, construction, maintenance, and/or repair tasks.

Responsible for ensuring daily activity logs and reports are correctly completed; assigning work; inspecting work; ensuring quality control; operating complex equipment; and performing the most complex of tasks related to the work assignment.

• May perform lead duties including assigning and inspecting work, coordinating safety training, and ensuring quality control and compliance with applicable operations, policies, and procedures.

• Performs the most complex of tasks related to the work assignment; plans, designs, installs, modifies, and/or maintains radio communications network, traffic signal, and other electrical, plumbing, and related systems, equipment, and devices; coordinates tree removal, planting, and pruning operations, and debris loading, hauling, and disposal operations; performs or coordinates carpentry, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, painting, concrete work, welding, masonry and other trades work.

• Operates complex equipment, as assigned, including (but not limited to) aerial lift truck, knuckle boom loader, chipper, chainsaw, crane (boom), and stump grinder.

• Ensures that daily activity logs and reports are correctly completed; monitors inventory; proof work and reviews of the work of others to ensure accuracy and completeness.

• Provides customer service; responds customer questions, concerns, and trouble calls; troubleshoots complex issues; and provides information on policies and procedures.

• As assigned, may serve as a lead worker, assigning work and monitoring work completion.

• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED, HiSet, TASC).

• One year of additional technical training in the area of assignment.

• Four years of equipment operation/driving experience or technical maintenance experience related to assignment.

• Incumbents must complete job related and/or safety training based on assignment, such as (but not limited to) lock out/tag out, confined space entry, ladder safety, CPR, respirator and emergency evacuation training.

• A valid North Carolina Class B Commercial Driver's License with a satisfactory driving record is required.