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About the Role
Join Sarasota County's Solid Waste Department as a Maintenance Skilled Trades Worker II, performing a variety of maintenance, repair, and improvement projects to ensure facilities are safe, efficient, and operating optimally. This hands-on role offers opportunities for learning, growth, and making a difference.
Responsibilities
- Operate light and heavy equipment, including tractors, loaders, excavators, backhoes, dump trucks, skid steers, and powered hand tools.
- Perform land clearing, mowing, grading, ditch rehabilitation, erosion control, and culvert and pipe installation and repair.
- Conduct preventative maintenance and perform mechanical, hydraulic, and small engine repairs to minimize equipment downtime.
- Inspect, construct, maintain, and repair infrastructure supporting Solid Waste operations and landfill facilities.
- Troubleshoot and repair electrical components, lighting systems, fixtures, switches, and related infrastructure.
- Install, maintain, and repair plumbing systems, pumps, meters, piping, and related facility components.
- Construct, repair, and maintain fencing, gates, signage, bollards, roadblocks, and other site safety features.
- Perform welding, fabrication, carpentry, painting, and general building maintenance.
- Assist with the maintenance and repair of landfill gas, groundwater monitoring, and stormwater management systems.
- Utilize basic surveying equipment, apply approved herbicides under supervision, and support safe, efficient operation of landfill facilities.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or its equivalent.
- Three (3) years of experience in the operation of heavy and light equipment and applicable Infrastructure Services experience.
- Valid Florida Driver’s License at the time of hire.
- Must be able to acquire a Class "A" Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with air brake endorsements within six (6) months from the date of hire. Paid by the County!
- Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Subject to Passing Substance Screening: An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years.
Skills
- Equipment operation
- Maintenance
- Repair
- Land clearing
- Mowing
- Grading
- Ditch rehabilitation
- Erosion control
- Culvert installation
- Pipe installation
- Preventative maintenance
- Mechanical repair
- Hydraulic repair
- Small engine repair
- Infrastructure repair
- Electrical repair
- Plumbing repair
- Fencing repair
- Welding
- Fabrication
- Carpentry
- Painting
- Building maintenance
- Landfill gas system maintenance
- Groundwater monitoring system maintenance
- Stormwater management system maintenance
- Surveying
- Herbicide application
Location
- Sarasota County
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 3 years of experience
Education Level
- High School Diploma or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $22.14/hour (Step 1)
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Florida Retirement System (FRS)
- Medical plans with $0 premium option (with completed preventative visits)
- Award-winning wellness program with free gyms
- 11 paid holidays
- 3 personal days
- 16 paid vacation days in the first year
About the Company
- Sarasota County's Solid Waste Department is dedicated to keeping facilities safe, efficient, and operating at their best.
- A different blend of voices prompt better conversations, choices and results for everyone. Sarasota County – Many Voices, One Team.
- We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.
- Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally.
- Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free Workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members.
- Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities. View the complete policy at scgov.net (keywords: ADA Compliance).