Equipment Operator III - G121 - Street Maintenance
Columbus Consolidated Government
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See open jobs at Columbus Consolidated Government.See open jobs similar to "Equipment Operator III - G121 - Street Maintenance" Columbus 2025.- Major Duties and Responsibilities
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Maintains the fuel truck and its equipment and apparatus; services and refuels equipment in city landfills, emergency generators, and tractors at various job sites; completes fuel slips; compiles information from fuel slips to complete repair orders.
Loads and unloads trucks.
Supervises inmates.
- Operates heavy equipment such as front end loaders, track hoes, back hoes, rubber tire loaders, track loaders, bulldozers, motor graders, grade alls, tractors, dump trucks, rollers, sweepers, excavators, and compactors.
- Flags and directs traffic; operates a sign truck.
- Transports soil and rocks.
- Surveys and grades sites.
- Cleans intersections and traffic islands using a backpack blower.
- Inspects and maintains equipment.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
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Maintains the fuel truck and its equipment and apparatus; services and refuels equipment in city landfills, emergency generators, and tractors at various job sites; completes fuel slips; compiles information from fuel slips to complete repair orders.
Loads and unloads trucks.
Supervises inmates.
Operates heavy equipment such as front end loaders, track hoes, back hoes, rubber tire loaders, track loaders, bulldozers, motor graders, grade alls, tractors, dump trucks, rollers, sweepers, excavators, and compactors.
Flags and directs traffic; operates a sign truck.
Transports soil and rocks.
Surveys and grades sites.
Cleans intersections and traffic islands using a backpack blower.
Inspects and maintains equipment.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
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Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years. This position is required to supervise state inmate labor. Employee must pass the Department of Corrections three-day certification within the time frame required by this department which is normally six months but may be altered. Must possess a valid Commercial Driver's License.
- Physical Requirements
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The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
Standing – for sustained periods of time.
Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
The work is typically performed outdoors, occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, and machinery with moving parts. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.
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