Work setting

• Various locations

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Clean and maintain sidewalks, streets, roads and public grounds
• Spread sand or salt on sidewalks for snow or ice control
• Dig ditches and trenches
• Operate jackhammers and drills to break up pavement
• Collect money from coin boxes of parking meters
• Collect and load refuse on garbage trucks
• Assist equipment operators to secure attachments to equipment or truck
• Assist in routine maintenance and repair of equipment
• Assist skilled tradespersons
• Load and unload trucks with supplies and equipment
• Shovel cement and other materials into cement mixers, spread concrete and asphalt on road surfaces using shovels, rakes and hand tampers
• Sweep debris and remove snow from streets, sidewalks, building grounds and other areas, and load snow and debris into carts or trucks

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks