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Description

Are you looking for a team environment with space to work independently? The Sioux Gateway Airport is taking applications for the Laborer (Seasonal) position.

Candidates must have knowledge of the use and types of hand tools, mowing equipment and other related equipment. This position will maintain the appearance of airport grounds by watering, mowing, landscaping, tree trimming, painting, and basic maintenance to the terminal building. Candidates must be physically able to work up to an 8-hour shift and lift up to 50 lbs.

This position will work up to forty (40) hours a week and hours will vary between 7:00am – 4:30pm Monday through Friday. May require weekends. Work will last a maximum of six (6) months.

Duties

• Knowledge of types and use of hand tools and mowing equipment.
• Works as part of a right-of-way mowing crew and operates a mower, weed whip and pickup truck.
• Performs various street maintenance duties such as cleaning gutters, spreading sand and salt, shoveling snow, sweeping streets, sidewalks and alleys, and picking up refuse and brush on streets and park facilities.
• Grades and dresses street slopes, driveways, sidewalks and drainage ditches.
• Paints meters, valves, pipe fittings, guardrails, street lines and curbs.
• Digs and backfills trenches and assists in laying pipe and electrical conduit to grade.
• Breaks pavement, pours and shovels asphalt and concrete, raking, tamping and smoothing asphalt and operating a manual and automatic compactor.
• Digs out holes with automatic and manual digging tools, filling depressions with slag, gravel, asphalt or other materials.
• Builds forms and assists in pouring concrete for curb, sidewalk, street and gutter repair and construction projects.
• Assists in opening and closing graves and in digging for monument foundations.
• Waters, fertilizes, cultivates and trims lawns, shrubs, flowers and trees.
• Assists skilled crew members in maintenance and repair of buildings, grounds and equipment.
• Maintains golf course operating aerifier, mowers and vertical cut units.
• Positions traffic cones and barricades.
• Assists in erecting street signs and meter posts.
• Assists in the installation of water services, mains and hydrants, and repairs of water mains.
• Assists in servicing emergency calls such as removing snow from streets, repairing broken water mains and sewer lines and similar situations.
• Cleans catch basins, manholes and storm, sanitary sewer lines, grounds, ponds, pools and playground equipment.
• Cleans and maintains public restrooms and shelter houses on weekends with little or no supervision.
• Inspects systems and support areas, reports any problems to supervisors.
• Completes daily assigned cleaning tasks of pool deck, locker room, and concession areas (garbage, blowing deck, picking up all leaves and debris).
• Reports any equipment or facility damaged, broken, or defaced.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance at work.
• Regularly lifts up to 25 pounds and occasionally lifts up to 50 pounds overhead.
• Expected to temporarily perform duties outside of normal classification in the event of a declared emergency. In the event that an employee is excused from work other than being sick, they will be required to report to work in a state of declared emergency.

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