Job Description
Salary: $25.67 - $31.37 Hourly
Location : West Allis, WI
Job Type: Permanent full time
Job Number: 2025-00331
Department: Public Works Department
Division: DPW Sanitation & Streets
Opening Date: 05/01/2025
Description There's no such thing as "same old, same old" for our Maintenance Repairers. Every day is different, and if you're ready to put your concrete finishing and general construction experience to work in a fast-paced, team-focused environment, our Public Works Department wants to hear from you. As a Maintenance Repairer, you'll work on a wide variety of projects related to maintaining and improving the City's infrastructure. Enjoy year-round, hands-on, full-time work operating vehicles and equipment, maintaining asphalt and concrete, and maintaining sanitary sewer mains for the safety of our community. As you take care of our City, we'll take care of you: we offer hard-to-find benefits like medical and fully paid dental, generous time off, a contributory dual pension system, plus training and opportunities for advancement. You CAN love your job.
Examples of Duties Routine maintenance of sanitary sewer mains: operating sanitary sewer jet, examining mains for issues, maintenance, and evaluation purposes.
Routine maintenance of catch basins, manholes including hydro excavating with vac-all.
Operate trucks and other equipment common to construction and maintenance activities.
Assist in building storm sewers, catch basins and sanitary manholes including shoring job sites as needed.
Crackfilling and potholing work with asphalt, including patch work in streets, alleys, curbs and sidewalks.
Assists in emergency work of all types including, but not limited to, snow/ice control, flooding, wind storms, all natural disasters, and sanitary sewer pumping.
Concrete finishing and laboring including all prep work such as digging, grading, setting/building forms for pavement, curbs, and sidewalks.
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Qualifications Must possess solid work ethic, integrity, initiative, accountability, and emotional intelligence to effectively perform the duties of the position.
A Maintenance Repairer must be available to work nights, weekends, holidays, overtime, and sometimes long and odd hours when emergency conditions require such duty, including serving on rotational watch duty when assigned.
Education, Training and Experience:
High school graduate/equivalent and two (2) years of recent paid work experience in finishing concrete required.
Street and/or sewer construction, maintenance work with particular emphasis in laying block, setting forms, and laying asphalt desirable.
Competent in the use of an office computer/software and mobile devices such as an iPad.
Licenses and Certificates:
Possession of a valid Wisconsin Driver's License and an acceptable driving record per City Policy.
Possession of a valid Wisconsin Commercial Driver's License (Class B, C with airbrakes) and Tanker (N) endorsement within 12 months of appointment.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Good knowledge of the methods, materials, tools, and equipment commonly used in public works construction and maintenance work; good knowledge of occupational hazards and safe work practices; skill in the use of common hand tools and equipment; ability to perform a variety of semi-skilled maintenance tasks and to interpret work from rough sketches or penciled layouts; ability to operate vehicles with both standard and automatic transmissions; ability to understand and effectively carry out verbal and written instructions; mechanical aptitude; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse population of people with varied academic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds using tact, diplomacy, and courtesy, including, but not limited to, supervisors, employees, and the public; ability to exercise sound judgment and make sound decisions; ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment; ability to adapt and learn specialized software systems and databases; knowledge of computer applications and mobile devices such as an iPad; demonstrated ability to promote innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Recent work experience with the public is desirable.
Benefits include: Time off Bank with the ability to accrue up to 25 days in one year to be used at your discretion with management approval; nine (9) paid holidays; eligibility for health insurance the first of the month following thirty (30) days of service with choice of a PPO Plan or High Deductible Health Plan (with optional participation in a Health Savings Account) - both plans are contributory and cover the employee and his/her family; fully paid dental insurance covering the employee and his/her family, with eligibility the first of the first of the month following thirty (30) days of service; a dual pension system comprised of the Wisconsin Retirement Fund* and Federal Social Security (both of which are contributory); a fully paid Life Insurance Program* with coverage in the amount of the employee's annual salary adjusted to the next highest one thousand dollars, with the option for additional coverage; an educational reimbursement plan for the pursuit of job related courses including personal and professional training opportunities and professional organization memberships; voluntary benefit programs consisting of vision, Flexible Spending Benefits for Dependent Care and Medical Reimbursement, Section 457: Deferred Compensation, Treasury Direct Payroll Savings Plan for Savings Bonds, and other various benefits including, but not limited to, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Wellness Program, Armed Services Reserve Training, and Federal Loan Program. For more detailed benefit information click here.
*The Wisconsin Retirement Fund and Life Insurance Program benefits are provided according to plan guidelines of the State of Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds.
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Do you have 2-3 years of concrete finishing experience (all aspects), construction knowledge and labor?
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Do you have an acceptable driving record per City Policy (no more than two moving violations in the last 18 months and no more than three moving violations within the last 36 months; no more than one chargeable accident within the last 18 months and no more than two chargeable accidents within the past 36 months; no more than six (6) demerit points within the past 12 months; no driving under the influence (Wis. Stat. 346.63) or reckless driving (Wis. Stat. 346.62) convictions within the past five years)?
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Do you hold a valid Wisconsin Commercial Drivers License - Class B,C,D with air brakes?
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If you do not possess a valid Wisconsin Commercial Driver's License, Class B, C with airbrakes and Tanker (N) endorsement, are you agreeable to obtaining such within 12 months of appointment?
Required Question City of West Allis, WI
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