Maintenance Worker I / II

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Full Time/ Regular Position:

• Maintenance Worker I: $3,711.07 - $4,513.60 monthly
• Maintenance Worker II: $4,972.93 - $6,047.60 monthly 

(3% salary increase effective July 1, 2025) 

GENERAL PURPOSE

Maintenance Worker I: Under close supervision, performs a variety of unskilled or routine maintenance tasks, construction work, and repair work in the upkeep of the city's streets, parks, beaches, and facilities; performs other work as assigned or required

Maintenance Worker II: Under general supervision, performs a variety of skilled or semi-skilled or routine maintenance tasks, construction work, and repair work in the upkeep of the city's streets, parks, beaches, and facilities; performs other work as assigned or required. Trains Maintenance Worker I as directed by supervisor.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responds to after-hours service requests and emergencies.
• Performs asphalt patching and pothole repair.
• Installs and maintains road markings and city signs.
• Clears brush and debris from storm drains, wooded areas, streets, creeks, and ditches.
• Cleans up after various types of road spills and vehicle accidents following proper department procedure.
• Distributes and collects barricades for traffic control during and after city festivals, recreational activities, and flooding of streets and beaches following high tides and heavy storms.
• Cleans sidewalks, picks up litter along streets, and dumps trash cans throughout the city.
• Maintains city buildings, cleans roofs and rain gutters, replaces lights and fixtures, and other tasks as needed.
• Builds and maintains city owned walls and fences.
• May operate power equipment and trucks.
• Maintains and makes minor repairs of equipment.
• Maintains the Capitola Wharf; cleaning bathrooms and performing minor repairs to buildings and structure.
• Mows and edges lawns, weeds, waters, prunes shrubs and trees; in city parks, street islands, and other city right-of-ways and landscaped areas.
• Installs, inspects and repairs sprinkler systems.
• Applies fertilizers and herbicides as necessary.
• Assists in installing, repairing, and maintaining park and recreational equipment.
• Cleans and maintains parks and recreational area restroom facilities.