Public Services Laborer - Forestry

Are you seeking a rewarding opportunity in public service working with a great team? We strive to hire skilled, competent, dedicated, customer-oriented staff who pride themselves on performing their duties to the highest level of excellence. This position will primarily support the urban forestry workgroup that maintains the City's over 19,000 trees on City property. The position will also perform a variety of manual, semi-skilled, and skilled tasks in the construction, maintenance, and repair of City owned property and its services. Laborers operate a wide variety of tools and equipment.

Areas of responsibilities may include:

• Perform standard maintenance of trees, such as pruning, trimming, inspecting, planting, and removal.
• Landscaping tasks include planting and beautification of public areas maintained by the city.
• Custodial, facilities maintenance, and carpentry work.
• Repair curbing and sidewalks.
• Maintain, inspect, and repair the storm sewer collection system.
• Set up and clean-up of special events.
• Respond to emergency situations, such as snow removal,flooding from rain events, signs down etc.
• Support other City departments/divisions in the abatement of emergency situations.
• May be upgraded to Equipment Operator, Maintenance Technician, Sign Technician, or Crew Leader as needed.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 1 year of experience inPublic Works and/or construction industry, preferably with urban forestry.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills for interaction with co-workers and the public.
• Able to work under varied environmental conditions and lift to 75 pounds.
• On-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, reporting no later than 60 minutes of the call-in.
• Class A Commercial Driver’s License or acquire within six months of hire (in-house training available).

If selected, successful completion of a background investigation (including fingerprinting), physical, functional capacity evaluation and drug screen are required. CDL holders will be run through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Clearinghouse pre-employment.

Pay per the Teamster's Collective Bargaining Agreement, with starting pay commensurate with experience. Competitive package of benefits to include medical, dental, prescription, vision, wellness incentives, life insurance, retirement pension plan with Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, retirement savings options, and much more!

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Resumes and additional documents can be attached to the on-line application system. If you are unable to apply online, or for other assistance, please contact 630-377-4446.

The City of St. Charles is an Equal Opportunity Employer.