Maintenance Assistant

This recruitment will remain open until a sufficient number of applications are received. The City reserves the right to limit the applications to the first 30 applicants. This recruitment may close at any time; apply immediately.
This position will work approximately 25 hours per week and may be required to work various hours, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
The City of Norwalk seeks an enthusiastic Maintenance Assistant to join its Public Services department in its Facilities & Park Landscape Divisions on the weekends. This entry-level position offers an excellent opportunity to learn valuable skills that can help kick-start a career in the utilities or service industry.
As a Maintenance Assistant, you will be responsible for performing a range of unskilled tasks related to the maintenance, custodial services, and upkeep of City buildings and facilities, parks and recreation buildings, grounds, and open spaces. Additionally, you will assist higher-level Maintenance Workers with custodial services, facilities, parks and grounds maintenance, general cleanup, and repair work.
It's important to note that this class is different from the Maintenance Worker I position, as the latter is responsible for some semi-skilled work and assignments in traffic maintenance and tree trimming.Depending upon assignment, essential duties include but are not limited to, the following:

PARKS
Maintains and cleans parks and open space areas around City buildings, park facilities including picnic areas and barbecues, restrooms and athletic fields; performs routine landscaping including, planting, trimming, weeding and fertilizing; assists with graffiti removal in parks.

FACILITIES
Provides custodial services for facilities, including floors, cleaning restrooms, and removal of trash; sweeps, mops, scrubs, strips, polishes, and waxes floors; cleans rugs and carpets; dusts, polishes, and waxes furniture and woodwork; cleans and stocks restrooms; empties and cleans waste receptacles and ashtrays; washes walls, windows, mirrors, and blinds; responsible for building security; locking and unlocking rooms; moves furniture or other heavy objects for set up of City functions. Assists with preparation of surfaces for painting; assists with graffiti removal on city buildings and facilities.

STREETS
Assists with the repair and maintenance of streets, curbs, sidewalks and storm drains; breaks up concrete and/or asphalt surfaces; digs, shovels, hauls and loads and unloads soils, sands, asphalt mixes and other materials; operates hand and power tools; assists in building forms for pouring concrete and finish cement work; cleans up work sites upon completion of jobs; observes safe work methods and safety practices, including the coning and flagging at work sites to secure from traffic; responds to emergency situations as required.Knowledge of:tools, equipment and materials used in facility, parks, streets and trees/greenscape maintenance.

Ability to: learn to perform custodial and general maintenance work; perform work effectively and safely with others; understand and follow oral and written directions.

Education and/or Experience
Any combination of education and/or experience that has provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for satisfactory job performance. Graduation from high school or equivalent is required. Must exhibit willingness to learn and perform duties associated with grounds, building maintenance, custodial work and street maintenance.

Required licenses and Certificates
Possession of or ability to obtain an appropriate California driver's license and a satisfactory driving record.Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, grasp, feel, perform repetitive motions or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. Employees are regularly required to pull, push, walk, stand, crouch, kneel and stoop. Depending on assignment, employees are frequently required to balance and climb. The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

Depending on assignment, the employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds frequently, in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific visual abilities required by this job include those required for those who operate cars, trucks, and other heavy equipment.

Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job and depending on assignment, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions, works near moving mechanical parts and is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibration; works in precarious places and is exposed to fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electric shock. The noise level in the work environment is frequently loud in field settings.
SELECTION PROCESSApply online athttp://www.norwalkca.gov/city-hall/departments/human-resources. Employment application and supplemental questions must be completed. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application. Applicant must be specific in describing qualifications for this position on application. Failure to state all pertinent information may lead to elimination from consideration. Stating "See Resume" is not an acceptable substitute for a completed application. Faxed materials or postmarks will not be accepted. Applications will be screened in relation to the criteria outlined in the job announcement. Candidates with qualifications that best relate to the position will be invited to participate in the selection process. Possession of the minimum qualificationsdoes notensure continuation in the selection process. The selection process will include an oral interview and other testing processes designed to predict successful job performance.For a complete copy of the class specification, please clickhere.
The City provides preference to military veterans under consideration for initial employment. To claim veteran's preference an applicant must submit their most recent DD214 form. An eligible veteran is one who has served in the United States armed forces and who has received an honorable discharge.
Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities may be requested by callingthe Department of Human Resources at least three (3) business days prior to thescheduled examination/interview date. The provisions of this bulletin do not constitute anexpressed or implied contract. Any provision contained in this bulletin may be modified orrevoked without notice.
The City of Norwalk, in compliance with all applicable Federal and State laws,does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry,marital status, age, religion, disability, sex, or sexual orientation in itsemployment actions, policies, procedures or practices.