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General Description and Classication Standards:

The Wastewater Collection Operator I is responsible for operating light, medium, and heavy trucks and construction equipment for the Office of Linear Infrastructure Operations. Duties include, but are not limited to: operating vehicles, machines, and preparing necessary documentation.

Supervision Received:

• Works under direct supervision and follows standardized procedures and written/verbal instructions to accomplish assigned tasks; may assist in training, orienting, or observing lower-level associate, apprentice, or semi-skilled employee in the group.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operates multiple vehicles and equipment during the course of completing daily assignments. The vehicle may be a dump truck; state body truck, or an automobile for errands and personnel transportation.

• Operates landscaping equipment such as construction equipment, small trench digger, and commercial mover.

• Directs equipment and vehicle inspection to ensure that equipment is operable.

• Completes service request forms to request vehicle repairs.

• Completes weekly maintenance reports to document work assignments.

• Performs preventative maintenance and inspection on equipment daily to ensure proper operations uses; dump truck, front-end loader, bobcat, and small yard equipment.

• Communicates with supervisor to relay information and receive instructions and directions.

• Communicates with co-workers to exchange information.
• Ensures that all duties assigned on the daily task sheets are completed and necessary reports are submitted upon job completion.

• Performs equipment and vehicle inspections to ensure that equipment is operable.

• Maintains service and repairs forms for each vehicle recording repairs and service completed, mileage of vehicle, and other required information for scheduled maintenance or warranties.

• Prepares form for equipment services and repairs and submits forms with required information

necessary for scheduled maintenance for warranties.

• May perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Ability to utilize mechanical tools to perform preventative maintenance; uses air compressor, battery charger, and shovels.

• Ability to operate dump truck, atbed, front-end loader, bobcat, and small yard equipment.

• Ability to transport materials to and from work site so that jobs may be completed.

• Skill in operating light to heavy-duty trucks and equipment for transportation to and from the

motor transport facility to provide necessary equipment to complete tasks.

• Skill in operating trucks of various sizes and weights in the loading, hauling, and unloading various equipment, materials, and supplies.

This is a partial listing of necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job successfully. It is not exhaustive list. Knowledge of safe operating procedures for the various equipment assigned. Skill in operating vehicles and heavy equipment. Required to make independent judgements in absence of supervision. Must be physically able to operate a variety of job related machines at level requirements for active work.

Minimum Qualications:

Education and Experience -

High school diploma or general equivalency degree (GED) required and 1 year of

experience in the operation of light to medium-sized commercial vehicles.

Licensures and Certications - Valid Class B Georgia Commercial Driver's License Required.

Preferred Requirements

Class A Georgia Commercial Driver's License

Listed as Essential Capabilities and Work Environment

Required physical, lifting and sensory capabilities are requirements to perform the job successfully. Typical environmental conditions associated with job.

Work Environment:

Required physical, lifting, and sensory capabilities are requirements to perform the job successfully. Typical environmental conditions associated with the job.

Lifting Requirements:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.