Are you a skilled and experienced professional in building facilities maintenance? Do you have a passion for enhancing the functionality and aesthetics of public spaces? We are excited to offer an exceptional employment opportunity as a Senior Public Works Specialist to join the City’s Public Works team, working in San Juan Capistrano’s vibrant and historic community.
We take pride in maintaining and enhancing the beauty and functionality of our public facilities and are dedicated to creating a safe, welcoming, and sustainable environment for our residents and visitors alike. As the Facilities Senior Public Works Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in upholding our commitment to excellence. With a newly constructed City Council Chamber and City Hall on the horizon, this is an exciting time to join our team!
The ideal candidate will have a strong background overseeing building facilities and related public land operations and maintenance activities; assisting in administering, monitoring, and overseeing maintenance
contracts; and ensuring that safety standards and City policies and procedures are followed. This individual will lead, coordinate, and prioritize maintenance-related service requests; participate in a variety of maintenance-related functions involving public land and building facilities; inspect maintenance activities performed by City staff and/or contractors for conformance with City standards and work specifications; and perform other functions as assigned by the Public Works Manager. Your expertise will contribute to the overall efficiency, safety, and aesthetic appeal of our community spaces. This role may involve hands-on maintenance work as well as coordination and leadership of maintenance teams.
Interested Candidates: Submit your online application by Thursday, August 31, 2023, at 12:00 p.m. using this link: Job Opportunities | Sorted by Job Title ascending | Career Pages (governmentjobs.com) Any questions, please email our Human Resources staff at hr@sanjuancapistrano.org. The City of San Juan Capistrano is an OCERS agency with CalPERS reciprocity. Additionally, CalPERS service retirees may work full-time for an OCERS agency with no restrictions. Apply now for this outstanding opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, effective environment with competitive pay and benefits! Your expertise will make a difference.
Note: An essential function of this position is the ability to participate in a paid, rotating, 7-day stand-by duty assignment that requires the individual, during their off hours, to remain in the local area (no more than 20 miles from City Hall), remain fit for duty, and respond to any necessary call outs within 15 minutes. Currently, the rotating assignment is approximately every three weeks. Stand-by duty hours, when no work is being performed, is compensated at minimum wage. Calls for service are compensated at the employee’s overtime rate of pay.
Distinguishing Characteristics
The Senior Public Works Specialist is distinguished from the Public Works Specialist II by its greater level of responsibility and judgment in prioritizing field assignments for small crews, tracking completed service orders, purchasing supplies, training, and checking the work of personnel, and demonstrating skilled equipment use.
This position receives direction from the Public Works Manager and may receive general supervision from higher level supervisory or management staff. The position provides lead supervision over assigned Public Works Specialists I and II.
Examples of Duties
Organizes, assigns, and participates in public land and facilities operations and maintenance activities, including City buildings and facilities and graffiti removal.
Provides assistance in administering, monitoring, and overseeing maintenance contracts and ensuring safety standards and City policies and procedures are followed; sets up and takes down traffic warning devices and barricades for traffic control purposes.
Inspects City buildings and facilities for potential damage and safety hazards; prepares work orders; assigns or makes repairs; assists with graffiti removal and litter abatement.
Performs a variety of building maintenance, renovation, and modification work to include plumbing, carpentry, electrical, and heating and air conditioning tasks; performs preventative maintenance on tools and equipment.
Lays out and assigns tasks to crew members based on work priorities and service needs given daily and planned maintenance schedules.
Trains Public Works Specialists in proper and safe work procedures and use of equipment; sets up and demonstrates proper use of tools, equipment, and vehicles; observes work in progress and upon completion evaluates productivity, quality, safety, and compliance with applicable work methods in conformance with City standards and requirements.
Operates and demonstrates the proper use of a variety of types of maintenance equipment including loader and backhoe, dump truck, roller, cement mixer, air compressor, forklift, sewer line cleaning equipment, and basic hand and power tools such as chain saw, power drills, and related equipment.
Checks completed work to ensure conformance with planned schedules and use of contract labor and materials.
May coordinate and provide assistance at fairs, parades, and other special events; sets-up and takes down equipment.
Responds to call-back emergency assistance given maintenance needs.
Performs related duties and responsibilities as required.
Typical Qualifications
Knowledge:
Operations, services, and maintenance and repair functions involving buildings and facilities.
Work methods, practices, and procedures for different types of job assignments, and safe and efficient use of tools and equipment.
Principles of lead supervision and training methods.
Proper operation and maintenance of equipment and troubleshooting methods.
Proper methods for use and storage of hazardous materials.
Traffic control and safety practices involving field work.
Principles and procedures of record keeping and reporting; safe driving principles and practices.
Knowledge of local and national building, electrical, and fire codes is a plus.
Skills and Abilities:
Planning, organizing, assigning, leading and inspecting work assigned employees.
Analyzing complex maintenance problems and determining appropriate actions.Operating and maintaining a variety of equipment and tools in a safe and effective manner.
Determining material resources and tasks required for different jobs.
Training staff in and demonstrating proper use of equipment and tools.
Reading, interpreting, and applying a wide variety of technical information from manuals, drawings, specifications, layouts, blueprints, and schematics.
Interpreting and applying policies, procedures, and standards and performing skilled trades tasks.Communicating effectively, both orally and in writing.
Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with staff, contractors, public, and other others encountered in the course of work.
Experience and Training - Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Minimum three years of experience in the maintenance and repair of public buildings and facilities.
Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade or General Education Diploma.
Possession of a valid Class C driver's license and the ability to complete CPR and First Aid certification.
Possession of a State of California Contractors B license is a plus.
Working Conditions
Environmental Conditions:
The employee constantly works outdoors and is subject to variable weather conditions and traffic, heat, dust, moisture and wetness as well as mechanical and electrical hazards, including applied chemicals. The employee is subject to loud construction noise in particular areas such as power tools, compressors, chippers, and large-scale motorized equipment. The employee must have the ability to travel to different maintenance sites. Depending upon the assignment, the employee may be required to be available for stand-by and emergency call service.
Physical Conditions: The essential functions require frequent walking, sitting, and standing for prolonged periods of time. Sensory demands require the ability to constantly hear and talk, both in person and by using a telephone, and the ability to use hand and power tools and other equipment. Specific vision acuity required by this job includes close vision and the ability to adjust focus to perform a variety of maintenance duties. The employee may be expected to operate loaders and backhoes, and related maintenance vehicles and jackhammers, stump grinders, concrete cutters, and other specialized equipment, and use shovels, hoes, brooms, and other tools given job assignments. Physical demands include bending, stooping, squatting, climbing, crawling, and reaching above and below shoulder level and the ability to carry materials, supplies, and tools weighing more than 50 pounds.