Position Description

Salary: $20.45 - $22.59 Hourly
Location : City of St. Cloud, FL
Job Type: FULL-TIME
Department: PUBLIC WORKS
Division: STORMWATER
Opening Date: 02/07/2025
Closing Date: 2/28/2025 5:00 PM Eastern
FLSA: Non-Exempt

Description
Join Our Team as an Equipment Operator - Stormwater Division

The City of St. Cloud is seeking a skilled and motivated Equipment Operator to join our Public Works Department. In this role, you will operate heavy trucks and other specialized equipment to maintain roads, rights-of-way, drainage areas, and other key infrastructure essential to our community's well-being.
WORK HOURS: 6:30 AM to 3:00 PM, with Stand-by hours

Our work is guided by the core values of Accountability, Empowerment, Innovation, and Ownership:

• Accountability: Perform your duties with precision and pride, ensuring safe and reliable operations.
• Empowerment: Develop your skills and contribute meaningfully to maintaining our city's vital systems.
• Innovation: Find efficient solutions and use modern techniques to improve maintenance practices.
• Ownership: Take responsibility for your work and its impact on the community's infrastructure.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting the safety, functionality, and appearance of our city's public spaces.

Apply today to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking, and values-driven team!
Duties and Responsibilities

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Performs minor preventative maintenance work on equipment to ensure that the equipment is in working order; performs routine service and safety checks on equipment.
• Reports potentially significant maintenance or repair problems to a supervisor and to the Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor.
• Operates a front-end loader (3 cubic yard bucket or less), to load working materials onto a dump truck and within a job site.
• Operates a rubber tire backhoe (equal or less than 20' reach) for digging. and excavation.
• Operates the Skid Steer loader for loading, grading, and concrete removal.
• Operates the vac truck to clean and maintain the City drainage system.
• Operates the Street Sweeper.
• May operate the excavator, grader, or dozer on a temporary, emergency, or trainee basis.
• Drives a dump truck to haul materials and debris.
• Removes and restores the base and surface of asphalt roadways, concrete sidewalks and driveways.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Requires High School graduation or GED equivalent supplemented by one (1) year of experience working with heavy equipment; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Bilingual preferred (Spanish/English).

Must be able to respond to afterhours emergencies or work efforts.

Must possess and maintain the following certifications or obtain within one (1) year of employment:

• Maintenance of Traffic Level I
• Trenching and Shoring Competent Person
• Confined Space
• Forklift Operator
• Equipment Operator 1 - Street Sweeper, Dump truck, Loader (3 cubic yard bucket or less), Back-Hoe (equal or less than 20' reach), Mini Excavator, Jet-Vac, Concrete truck, Skid Loader, Forklift.

Must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license - Class A (restriction 5 - no tractor/trailers) with an acceptable driving history.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to remain stationary; move; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to remain stationary; communicate and taste or smell. The employee must routinely lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and will frequently lift and/ or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Mathematics:
Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Language Ability:
Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Reasoning:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions and confined spaces. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

An Equal Opportunity Employer
The City of St. Cloud is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination, harassment, or retaliation in all of its employment practices based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran or family status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by applicable state or federal laws. The City participates in employment eligibility verifications through E-verify. Veteran's preference is given in accordance with Florida Law.
City of St. Cloud Benefits Package
We believe our City employees to be our most valuable asset. To attract and retain those employees, we offer a competitive wages and benefits package including on-the-job training, seminars, and performance appraisals.

We invite you to look at the benefits the City of St. Cloud has to offer. We think you will find that the rewards of the job are equal to the challenge.

All of our Full-time regular employees are eligible for the , which includes:

• On-Site Employee Health Care Center - free for employees and their dependents on the health insurance plan
• Paid Vacation
• Sick Leave (Ability to roll over from year to year)
• 11 Paid Holidays for General Employees and Police Officers- The Fire department employees can earn up to 156 holiday hours per fiscal year (prorated from the employee's start date).
• One (1) Floating Holiday for General Employees and two (2) for Police Officers.
• Medical and Dental Coverage
• Awards Programs
• Deferred Compensation Plan
• Discounted Automobile Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Holiday Bonus - subject to City Council approval
• Indianapolis Plan (Police Officers)
• Life and Accidental Death (One-time annual salary paid by City)
• Long Term Disability Coverage (paid by City)
• Management Leave
• Sick Leave Bank available for all employees - for Fire Union sick leave bank information, see

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01

Which best describes your level of education?

• No High School Equivalency
• High School Diploma or Equivalency
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree

02

Do you have a Commercial Driver's License? If yes, which class?

• No
• Yes, Class A
• Yes, Class B
• Yes, Class C

03

Do you possess a valid state driver's license - Class A (restriction 5 - no tractor/trailers) with an acceptable driving history?

• Yes
• No

04

Do you have experience in utility constructions, heavy equipment operation, and current geographical knowledge, drainage industry standards, and equipment operations? Please select the number of years.

• No
• 0-1 years
• 1-5 years
• 5 years and above

05

Are you able to respond to afterhours emergencies or work efforts?

• Yes
• No

06

Please list which of the below certifications you possess:* Maintenance of Traffic Level I* Trenching and Shoring Competency* Confined Space * Forklift Operator* Equipment Operator 1 - Street Sweeper, Dump truck, Loader (3 cubic yard bucket or less), Back-Hoe (equal or less than 20' reach), Mini Excavator, Jet-Vac, Concrete truck, Skid Loader, Forklift.
07

For any certifications you do not currently have, are you able to obtain them within (1) one year of employment?

• Yes
• No

Required Question

Skills & experience

Position Type

• Full-time

Work Schedule

• Monday to Friday

Location

This job may require you to travel to the following location

• St. Cloud, Florida, 34769, United States

Compensation Rate

• $20.45 - 22.59