General Laborer - Natural Resources and Land Management - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (7514) - (144510)

• Application Opening:April 5, 2024
• Application Filing Deadline:April 19, 2024
• Annual Salary:
• Recruitment ID: PEX-7514-144510 (RTF0144509-01148788)

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Permanent Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?

Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area - 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at .

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at

Project: Natural Resources and Land Management (NRLM) Arborist Special Projects/Laguna Honda Reservoir Hazard Tree Removals

Position Summary: The essential functions of this class include: Working in a ground support role for the Arborist Crew, will perform felling trees and limbs, will maintain a safe work site with regard to public safety and ensures compliance with safety standards, will help repair and maintain various equipment such as rigging, aerial boom trucks, and power tools, participates in pruning work, requiring considerable physical effort and manual dexterity with exposure to accidents and injury hazards and disagreeable elements. Candidate will also use the Woodchipper and small Skid Steers to complete field projects.

Essential Functions:

1. This position primary duties will be to support the Arborist Crew, responsibilities will be to maintain tools and equipment at the work yard and on all vehicles. Maintain all fuels and lubricants for crew and equipment, along with safe storage of Arborist tools and equipment.
2. Setup safety barriers, cones and signage at all project sights.
3. Drag brush to the chipper, operate the small skid steer to bring materials to the work zone and load logs into trailers, drive Chipper Trucks with a trailer.
4. Perform chainsaw work in a safe manner and have the ability to cut down small trees in the field, operate a chipper safely.
5. Wear all Personnel Protective Equipment at all times.
6. Clears and chips vegetation, brush, limbs; clears firebreaks, watershed roadways, v-ditches, jogging and foot paths, pipeline rights-of-way, around structures, buildings, risers, vaults, and valve lots; cuts access routes to watershed domestic utility lines and springs; removes small trees and grinds stumps.
7. Installs and maintains chain link, barbed wire and hogwire fencing; cements watershed gate posts and chain link fence posts.
8. Removes and cleans up debris resulting from construction, maintenance, wrecking, or repair work around grounds and building areas using hands, broom, shovel, wheel barrow, etc.
9. Operates and maintains pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, and hand tools including air compressors, jack hammers, tie tampers, sand blasters, steam cleaners, hoists, drills, chain saws, cement mixers, chipping guns, weed whackers, spaders, stump grinders, fence stretchers, aerial lift buckets, and other hand tools to assist craft workers in getting their jobs done.
10. Sweeps streets and sidewalks
11. Applies disinfectants, de-greasers, and herbicides to streets and sidewalks and cut tree stumps.
12. Scrubs streets, sidewalks, and plazas with a broom or high-pressure water hose.
13. Picks up litter and puts debris into bags.
14. Cleans up illegal dumping sites, spills on city streets, and sites of accidents.
15. Uses radio communication system or other communication devices.
16. Manages a tool room, distributing tools and tracking inventory.
17. Completes forms such as work orders, daily work or field reports, and/or accident report forms.
18. Drives a truck and/or car to work sites and follows route or other maps.
19. May perform other duties as assigned.

Nature of the work

Positions involve sustained physical effort and exposure to a variety of disagreeable working conditions and inclement weather. Special Requirements: Physical strength, endurance, and dexterity to perform tasks such as lifting and/or handling materials and objects weighing up to 90 pounds, carrying such materials at least 50 feet, balancing 10-foot long pieces of lumber; sustained physical effort , frequently under adverse weather conditions and/or disagreeable working conditions, such as working on roads or streets in traffic or in cold or rain or being exposed to feces and urine, raw sewage, used syringes, toxic and hazardous materials, poison oak, poisonous snakes, and insects; and confined space entry.

Minimum Qualifications: Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Experience:

Three (3) years (6000 hours) of journey-level experience as a general laborer in the construction field.

License and Certification:

Possession of a valid Class C California driver license (must be maintained during employment).

Substitution:

Completion of a California Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) or United States Department of Labor (DOL) approved apprentice construction laborer program may be substituted for the required experience.

Verification of Education and Experience:

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. Education verification information on verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements

Note: Falsifying one's education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

DRUG TESTING REQUIREMENT: Applicants for positions in this classification who are not currently employed by the City and County of San Francisco in a safety-sensitive position represented by Laborers Int, Local 261, are required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing. All employees in this classification may also be subject to drug and alcohol testing upon reasonable suspicion or after a work-related accident. Applicants with a positive result from a pre-employment drug test will be restricted from hire in safety-sensitive positions for six-months after the date of the positive test.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

• Select the "Apply Now" button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Job Analyst Information:If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the jobanalyst, Yvane Mirabueno at ymirabueno@sfwater.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.