<p>Join the City's Department of Public Works in a hands-on, entry-level position where you'll receive full training, gain broad exposure to public works operations, and learn skills that directly support essential city services. This role offers CDL training reimbursement and provides meaningful, community-impacting work across streets, sanitation, and infrastructure maintenance.</p> <p>Why you'll love this role</p> <ul> <li>Meaningful work that directly impacts residents and neighborhoods </li><li>Outdoor, active work environment across all seasons </li></ul> <p>What you'll do</p> <ul> <li>Assist at residential drop-off sites </li><li>Build, deliver, and maintain refuse and recycling carts </li><li>Support bulk and brush collection crews </li><li>Assist crewmembers on garbage and recycling routes </li><li>Pick up litter on boulevards and along city fence lines </li><li>Work with asphalt, crack sealing, and concrete crews to repair streets, sidewalks, and lots </li><li>Cut and trim grass on city-owned properties, culverts, and ditches </li><li>Perform winter snow and ice control using a pickup truck with a plow blade </li><li>Work outdoors continuously in all weather conditions and seasons </li><li>Assist with general street, sanitary sewer, and storm sewer maintenance </li><li>Support tree and landscaping maintenance </li><li>Assist with streetlight and traffic maintenance </li><li>Support emergency response efforts such as storms, flooding, and natural disasters </li><li>Assist in concrete finishing: digging, grading, setting forms for pavement, curbs, and sidewalks </li><li>Perform routine maintenance of sanitary sewer mains, catch basins, and manholes </li><li>Operate equipment used in construction and maintenance </li><li>Assist in building storm sewers, catch basins, and sanitary manholes </li><li>Complete asphalt crack-filling and pothole repair </li><li>Carry out manual and semi-skilled labor duties across DPW as assigned </li><li>Maintain reliable attendance and accurate communication </li><li>Maintain the ability to legally operate a designated motor vehicle </li></ul> <p>What you bring</p> <ul> <li>High school diploma or equivalent </li><li>Valid driver's license </li><li>Ability to obtain CDL (Class B or C with air brakes) within 1 year of hire </li><li>Physical labor experience preferred but not required </li></ul>