Maintenance Technician Series

GENERAL PURPOSE: The role involves performing a wide range of hands-on street maintenance and repair tasks, including patching and reconstructing asphalt and concrete surfaces, operating jackhammers and concrete finishing tools, spreading gravel, grading alleys, and conducting rough carpentry work. A major responsibility is snow and ice control during the winter season), which requires operating plow trucks, graders, and chemical spreaders, along with availability for extended hours, weekends, and emergency call-outs as needed. The position entails operating and maintaining various heavy construction equipment— such as dump trucks, loaders, rollers, sweepers, and specialized power tools—while conducting pre- and post-trip inspections, fueling, cleaning vehicles, and identifying equipment needs for projects. Additional duties include installing and maintaining storm drain systems, laying out and applying traffic control markings, setting up work zone traffic control devices, directing traffic, developing basic traffic plans, and ensuring public safety through proper precautions. The worker also handles general cleanup of public rights-of-way, responds to public inquiries and emergency calls (including nights and weekends), performs utility locate research using GIS, completes required documentation such as daily reports and checklists, and carries out related facility, vehicle, and building maintenance tasks as assigned. Wheat Ridge was founded during the 1859 Gold Rush as a rest stop for miners and later named for its golden wheat fields. As unsuccessful miners turned to farming, the area thrived with orchards, vegetable fields, and later, greenhouses, earning the title “Carnation City.” Incorporated in 1969, Wheat Ridge now offers a central location with easy access to Denver and the Rocky Mountains. It operates as a home-rule city with a council-manager government, where the elected council sets policy, and the manager oversees daily operations and budgeting. CORE VALUES: The City of Wheat Ridge is committed to excellence and ACTION!: •Accountability: Employees take responsibility for their actions, decisions, and recommendations and are accountable to each other and the community •Change: Adapts to changing organizational needs, conditions, and work responsibilities. •Teamwork: Employees value teamwork as a collaborative effort, with each person contributing unique skills, knowledge, and training to achieve common goals. •Integrity: Employees uphold the highest ethical standards, recognize the importance of public and customer trust and adhere to the values of the organization. •Opportunity: Employees are empowered to grow professionally, develop best practices, and seek challenges to advance the City. •NOW!: Employees are proactive, timely, and efficient in responding to the needs of the organization and the community – NOW! RESPONSIBILITIES: • Involved in all aspects of asphalt and concrete repair and maintenance; shovel and spread asphalt and asphalt base in the patching, repairing, and reconstruction of streets including crack sealing. Uses concrete cutting and breaking equipment; operates a jackhammer; forms, pours, and finishes concrete; performs rough carpentry work; spreads and compacts gravel; grades alleys. • Performs snow removal duties by operating truck-mounted snowplows, graders, and spreaders; applies chemical de-icers to streets. Must be available to work beyond normal working hours and on weekends as needed for snow/ice control maintenance during winter months, generally September 1 - April 30. • Operates construction equipment such as tandem-axle dump trucks, rollers, front end loaders, street sweepers, and power tools such as compressors, jackhammers, paint sprayers, sandblasters, concrete saws, and sewer jetters in a variety of construction, maintenance, and repairs efforts. Performs pre- and post-trip inspections. Cleans and fuels assigned vehicles at the end of each shift. Identifies equipment needs for each assigned project. • Cuts, installs and sets storm drainpipes to proper grades. Inspects and clears obstructions from storm drains. • Performs layout, installation, and removal of traffic control markings such as crosswalks, lane stripes, and turn arrows. Works with inlay and overlay of thermoplastic. Operates and maintains paint equipment. • Installs work zone traffic control devices prior to the performance of any work in the right-of-way. Directs and controls traffic around work sites. May develop work zone traffic control plans. • Cleans debris from streets, ditches, and other public right-of-way areas. • Performs general construction maintenance, routine facility & vehicle maintenance as necessary, and basic building tasks. • Utilizes proper safety precautions related to all work performed. • Responds to requests and inquiries from the public. • Prepares daily reports, vehicle checklists job report forms, and other necessary documentation. • Responds to requests for utility locations including research through GIS system. • Responds to emergency calls on weekends and nights, as required. • Performs related work as required and assigned.