Streets Maintenance Foreman

This job was posted by : For moreinformation, please see: Essential FunctionsEssential Functions are not intended to be an exhaustive list of allresponsibilities, duties, and skills. They are intended to be accuratesummaries of what the job classification involves and what is requiredto perform it.- Assists in leading, training, and reviewing crews\' work within the assigned department/division as designated by the crew leader.- Monitors work under progress and upon completion for compliance with standards and with plans and directions as designated by the crew leader.- Ensures the timely accomplishment of assigned duties and responsibilities.- Ensures that crew leader and department management is informed of critical issues.- Communicates and acts in a professional manner with the public, co-workers, and work contacts. Maintains harmonious relationships and provides excellent customer service.- Performs a wide variety of street construction and maintenance procedures through operating one or more of the following pieces of equipment skillfully, safely and in accordance with traffic laws and regulations to: including back-hoes, dump trucks, belly dump trucks, water trucks, asphalt patching trucks, chip sealing machines, milling machines, graders, chip spreaders, loaders, oil boot trucks, street sweepers/brooms, jetter/inductor trucks, street rollers, man-lifts, tampers, plate compactors, snow plows and other related construction and maintenance equipment.- Operates trucks or equipment of various sizes and weights in the loading, hauling and unloading of various equipment, materials, and supplies. May drive trucks or various other equipment when traveling to and from job sites.- Operates fork lifts, jackhammers, mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, and other small equipment and power/hand tools to maintain street and utility systems, as needed.- Installs or assists in the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices.- Works as a laborer and works with other personnel in shoveling, raking, patching pot holes, cleaning weeds and general labor work.- Installs, maintains and removes temporary traffic control devices for related to maintenance activities, special events, and accidents. Controls traffic at work sites by flagging to guide traffic through work areas, as required or assigned.- Assists with clean-up operations at accidents, spills and other emergency situations.- Assists in signs and markings operations; assists with other divisions and departments in street related activities; provides traffic control assistance and labor to the traffic signal section; assists with Blue Staking; cleans drainage ditches, storm drain pipe and catch basins.- Performs routine inspection and preventive maintenance on assigned equipment and refers defects or needed repairs to supervisor; cleans equipment.- Assists others in backing their equipment and safe operation during work activities.- Performs pre and post trip equipment according to CDL requirements.- Performs all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.- Supervises and leads DOC Inmate Labor as trained and assigned.- Communicates and acts in a professional manner with the public, co-workers, and work contacts.- Providing customer service, and communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.- Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity.- May be required to work early mornings, evenings, nights, holidays or weekends as needed.- Performs all work duties and activities in accordance with City policies and procedures; follows safety policies and practices, works in a safe manner, and reports unsafe activity and conditions.**PERIPHERAL DUTIES**- Performs related duties as required.- Performs special assignments as requested.- May serve on a variety of employee committees.