Operates heavy equipment or motor vehicles and performs maintenance on them.
Incumbents in this classification typically operate the following types of equipment or vehicles: graders, bulldozers, harvesters, dump trucks, front-end loaders, backhoes, street sweepers, tractor-trailer trucks, drawbridges, forklifts or ambulances.
Transports visitors, state employees, officials, patients or supplies. Performs manual labor incidental to the operation of assigned vehicles or equipment. Performs or supervises the maintenance of vehicles, equipment or drawbridges. Purchases equipment and supplies. Maintains records of repair costs, parts, labor, fuel and mileage. Maintains insurance records and submits the insurance claims. Operates bridge for passage of boats. Maintains records of vehicles stopped at each bridge opening. Operates heavy equipment in the construction of highways. Maintains radio contact with vessels and the coastguard.
Knowledge of safety practices relevant to the area of employment. Knowledge of the operation, maintenance and repair of equipment, vehicles or drawbridges. Knowledge of state laws pertaining to the operation of equipment upon state highways. Skill in the operation of assigned equipment or vehicles. Ability to detect mechanical failures and repair them. Ability to supervise subordinate personnel. Ability to perform manual work requiring good physical condition. Ability to coordinate the traffic of oncoming boats with the flow of vehicular traffic to pass boats through the draw at a minimum inconvenience to traffic.
Some positions require a valid driver's license and/or a commercial driver's license.
Experience in the operation or maintenance of heavy equipment, motorized vehicles or machinery that is directly related to the area of employment.