Construction Equipment Operator I

Salary\: $49,790 - $74,672

Position Grade\: 209T

Department\: Multiple Departments

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1574

Location\: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position operate construction equipment and a variety of other heavy vehicles for a City of St. Louis operating department. Some positions may require shifts, weekend, and holiday assignments. Required to assist in 24-hour emergency snow and ice removal program.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Operates all department construction vehicles and equipment as necessary\: wheel loader, skidster, roller, backhoe, street sweeper, flusher truck, concrete truck, tandem/single axle dump with trailer, and other similar equipment.

● Hauls trash, debris and materials.

● Excavates land; removes debris; demolishes buildings and structures with equipment.

● Grades construction sites such as city parks, streets, utility installations and other city properties.

● Digs holes and trenches.

● Grinds trees, yard waste, etc., to create mulch.

● Uses special attachments to spread salt and remove snow from streets and sidewalks.

● Transports heavy equipment to job sites.

● Clean and inspect equipment, pre and post trip daily.

● Maintains department vehicles and equipment.

● May pick up residential trash bags, drums and bulk items.

● May perform welding and routine repairs to equipment.

● May perform manual labor on projects.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to process, calculate, compute, summate, and/or tabulate data and/or information.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others, such as co-workers and the general public, within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from supervisors.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate equipment and machinery requiring monitoring of multiple conditions and making multiple, complex and rapid adjustments, on such as rubber-tired loaders, double axle dump trucks, crawler tractors, tractor-trailer, and other department equipment. Ability to operate complex equipment and perform machinery general maintenance.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference data and information such as work orders, operating instructions and schedules.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents and traffic hazards.

● Physical Requirements\: Tasks involve the ability to exert regular and sustained heavy physical effort typically involving some combination of lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling moderately heavy objects and materials weighing up to fifty (50) pounds, occasionally involving objects such as heavy equipment attachments and materials up to one hundred (100) pounds. Tasks require the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, balance, bend, and climb in order to perform equipment operation and manual labor duties.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of sound, odor, and materials associated with the operation of equipment and depth perception.