Construction General Laborer - Operations Division - SF Public Works (7514 TPV)

The City and County of San Francisco is hiring a Construction General Laborer for their Operations Division. The role involves manual labor tasks such as debris removal, material handling, trench excavation, and operating various tools and equipment. Responsibilities include maintaining work sites, assisting in construction and repair operations, and ensuring proper drainage in confined spaces. This position is based in San Francisco and requires physical presence on-site.
Under general supervision, you will perform a variety of manual labor tasks such as removing debris from construction, maintenance, wrecking, or repair work; loading and unloading materials, supplies, furniture, and equipment. You may also be assigned to join a work crew with other crafts; operating various types of equipment and machinery including pneumatic and hand tools associated with general construction.

MAJOR, IMPORTANT, AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES

As a general laborer, your duties may include but are not limited to the following:
• Excavates trenches (using various pneumatic and hand tools, including 90-pound jackhammers) for water and sewer lines, underground utility repair, or electrical conduits; backfills and compacts excavations; and potholes transmission mains and service piping.
• Clears culverts, and stakes fabric to prevent erosion of work sites, cement, and rip-raps upstream and downstream of culverts.
• Stabilizes embankments by building wet walls and drywalls alongside roadways and waterways.
• Clears obstacles prior to machine mowing.
• Serves as flag operator and sets up traffic barricades, lights, or other barriers around work sites (on streets or other locations).
• Clears and chips vegetation, brush, and limbs; clears firebreaks, watershed roadways, v-ditches, jogging and footpaths, 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.
• Installs and maintains chain link, barbed wire, and hog wire fencing; cement watershed gate posts and chain link fence posts.
• Loads and unloads materials, supplies, furniture, and/or equipment by hand or with booms, power tailgates, forklifts, and other moving equipment for moving to and from worksites (examples: jackhammers, sandbags, cement bags, debris bags, railroad ties, whackers, vibratory plates).
• Removes and cleans up debris resulting from construction, maintenance, wrecking, or repair work around grounds and building areas using hands, broom, shovel, wheelbarrow, etc.
• You will work in confined spaces and assist in cleaning and flushing catch basins, septic tanks, or sewage treatment plants using shovels, hoses, and pumps to ensure proper sewer system drainage.
• Operates and maintains pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, and hand tools including air compressors, jackhammers, tie tampers, sandblasters, 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.
• Mixes and prepares concrete.
• Assists in the application of concrete and asphalt to repair roads and sidewalks.
• Sweeping streets and sidewalks.
• Applies disinfectants, de-greasers, and herbicides to streets and sidewalks.
• Scrubs streets, sidewalks, and plazas with a broom or high-pressure water hose.
• Picks up litter and puts debris into bags.
• Cleans up illegal dumping sites, spills on city streets, and sites of accidents.
• Removes litter and signs from poles and benches.
• Operates motorized sidewalk sweepers to clean sidewalks.
• Uses radio communication systems or other communication devices.
• Manages a tool room, distributing tools and tracking inventory.
• Completes forms such as work orders, daily work or field reports, and/or accident report forms.
• Drives a truck and/or car to work sites and follows routes or other maps.
• Prepare surfaces for painting; removes graffiti from public/private property using a computerized color matching program, soda blaster, and/or steam cleaner.
• May include additional duties as assigned.