Full job description

Value Proposition

Through our work at St. Charles, we are able to shape a community while bringing meaning and purpose to our own life. At the heart of our work is service to others, ensuring the health, safety, and connection of those who live, work, and visit St. Charles. Our important work is recognized through above-market compensation and a rich benefit package.

Description

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.

Examples of Duties

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.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 1 year of experience in Public 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).