Maintenance and Construction Worker - Desert Region

<div style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><img src="" alt="Logo of Riverside County Department of Waste Resources, featuring mountains and waves in the background." style="width: 587px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br></span><div style="font-style: normal"><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Department of Waste Resources is seeking to fill a single vacancy for a Maintenance and Construction Worker (MCW) position located at the Edom Hill facility in Palm Springs, CA.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><strong>This position requires employees to spend approximately 75% of their time traveling throughout the Desert region.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Incumbents will safely operate light trucks and other motorized equipment, including power saws, grinders, and drills, as they travel to various locations to collect and transport illegal dump work orders to landfills. They will also perform maintenance, general housekeeping, and cross-training as assigned. Candidates will additionally perform traffic control duties, including setting up traffic control devices such as cones and signs, and effectively communicating with both the public and their work team using hand signals and/or handheld radios. In addition, incumbents will perform weed abatement and site cleanup.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The most competitive candidates will be Spanish bilingual (preferred, not required), have experience working in outdoor labor or construction settings, traveling to various locations to transport materials, working in or around light- to medium-duty construction equipment, and have experience using power tools.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Under general supervision, incumbents perform a variety of field maintenance and construction tasks; operate hand tools, power tools, trucks, and other motorized equipment during maintenance or construction projects; and perform other related duties as required.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Maintenance and Construction Worker is an entry-level working classification and reports to an appropriate supervisor or manager. Incumbents perform a variety of semi-skilled tasks, which often involve operating less complex and smaller motorized equipment (e.g., two-axle or three-axle trucks, water spray trucks, loaders, mowers, chippers, and compressors). Work may include road and flood control construction and maintenance, refuse disposal site operations, maintenance, recycling, excavations, fence building, weed abatement, signage installation, rodent control, and tree trimming.</span></p></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br></span><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><strong style="font-weight: 700"><u>Meet the Team!</u></strong></span></div><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Department of <a href="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Waste Resources</a> serves the County's solid waste disposal needs by providing for efficient and effective landfilling of County non-hazardous waste, protecting the environment, and promoting recycling in order to ensure a safe and healthy community for current and future generations.</span></div><br><div style="text-align: center"><a href=""><img class="fr-fic fr-dii" src="" alt="Banner promoting job benefits for the County of Riverside, featuring a cityscape background and the county seal." style="width: 514px"></a></div><br><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br>• Construct and maintain ro, fencing, flood control channel walls and levees, and culverts. <br><br>• Perform construction, maintenance and recycling work at refuse disposal sites; spray and cut weeds; patch holes in black top ro; clear ro, channels, and other facilities of storm debris and damage.<br><br>• Install signs; chop and clear brush; mix and pour concrete; erect traffic and street signs. <br><br>• Use a variety of hand and power tools; operate dump trucks to load, haul and deliver a variety of debris and materials; operate water spray trucks, loaders, mowers and other light motorized equipment.<br></span><div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">• Perform traffic direction, set up and maintain traffic signs at refuse disposal sites.</span></div><strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Experience: </span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">One year of performing construction work or field maintenance work (e.g., ro, flood control facilities, refuse sites, recycling facilities, public works projects or closely related work) which required operation of light trucks and related construction equipment. <br><strong><br>Knowledge of:</strong> The operation and maintenance of trucks and light motorized equipment; equipment and traffic safety procedures; the tools and materials commonly used in field maintenance, recycling, or construction work. <br><br><strong>Ability to:</strong> Safely operate trucks and light motorized equipment; perform a variety of semi-skilled maintenance or construction tasks; operate power saws, chippers, and a variety of hand tools; follow oral and written instructions.<br><br></span><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><strong style="font-weight: 700">Other Requirements:</strong></span></div><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"><span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Possession of a valid Class C California Driver's License at the time of application </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0">as the incumbent will be driving a county vehicle daily throughout Riverside County.</span></span></div><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br></span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><strong>Physical Requirements:</strong><br></span><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0; text-align: justify"><span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The majority of this position will entail working outdoors in inclement weather conditions (rain, sleet, wind and summer temperatures exceeding 115 degrees Fahrenheit). </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0">Prolonged physical exertions, including standing (5-8 hrs.) lifting tools, traffic signs, appliances, waste, carrying, reaching, bending, pushing, pulling, and climbing.</span></span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br><strong>Department of Transportation:</strong><br></span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); font-style: normal; text-indent: 0">For those positions designated by the Department of Transportation (DOT) as safety-sensitive, applicants are required to complete a DOT mandated alcohol and drug-screening. (A positive test or refusal to test during the past two years will disqualify an applicant from consideration for County employment). Reference checks from former DOT regulated employers are also required. Applicants must submit a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) driving record prior to hire.</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0"><br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0"></span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); font-style: normal; text-indent: 0">Employees in safety-sensitive positions are subject to DOT alcohol/drug testing in the following situations: random, reasonable suspicion/cause, return-to-duty, and post-accident.</span><div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">This recruitment is open to all applicants.<strong> </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><strong>GENERAL INFORMATION</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">If you have any questions regarding this posting, please contact Joshua Roberts at joroberts<a style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">@rivco.org</a> or 951-955-2548. </span></div>