Senior Streets Operator

City of Durango’s Streets Division is hiring a Senior Streets Operator to join their team in maintaining 83 miles of roadway. The Senior Streets Operator is a lead worker who has the technical ability to operate light and heavy construction and maintenance equipment ranging from weed cutters to cement mixers, forklifts to boom trucks, snowplows, skid loaders, street sweepers, and more. In this role, you will be responsible for performing maintenance activities involving landscaping and street repair, including loading, hauling, scraping, sweeping, mowing, and related operations. Additionally, you will assign tasks and train coworkers in safe and effective work methods. Your expertise will be vital to our commitment to maintaining a well-functioning and efficient environment for our community.
 
Get compensated for your commitment! To acknowledge the standby requirements and their impact on our workers’ lives, we provide Senior Streets Operators with a supplemental $3.00/hour added to their pay rates. This position is also eligible for a $500/month snowplow bonus between November 1st and April 31st each year per Public Works’ Incentive and Retention Policy & Snowplow Bonus Program policy.

What You’ll Do in This Role:

• Operate light to heavy construction and maintenance equipment.
• Participate in landscaping and street repair maintenance activities.
• Maintain production logs and records.
• Identify, pick up, and deliver equipment from construction sites for each assigned project.
• Install street barricades and cones prior to performance of street repair activities; direct and control traffic around work sites; and clean storm drains.
• Remove ice and snow from roadways and parks as directed.
• Construct forms, lay cement and finish cement on curb, gutter, sidewalk, street, alley and other related areas; dig ditches; backfill trenches and holes; install storm drainpipes.
• Assign work and instruct coworkers in work methods.

You Have:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Three years of experience performing maintenance and construction work.
• Ability to maintain a valid CDL license during employment.
• Skill in operating and maintaining all assigned vehicles and light to heavy power-driven equipment.
• Knowledge of traffic and ordinance laws.
• Commitment to following standard safety practices.
• Basic knowledge of irrigation system operation.

What We Can Offer You:

• Supplemental $3.00/hour added to your pay rate to acknowledge standby requirements.
• $500/month snowplow bonus eligibility between November 1st and April 31st of each year.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Ample personal time off (PTO) and 11 paid holidays.  
• 401(a) retirement plan and optional deferred compensation plan.  
• Basic life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.  
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Paid Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).  
• Free access to the Durango Community Recreation Center and Chapman Hill Ice Rink & Ski Area.
• Holistic Employee Wellness Program, addressing physical, mental, financial, and professional well-being.
• Free transit pass and family member discounts.  
• Reimbursement for job-related classes to foster continuous learning.  
• Sixteen hours of volunteer time off per year to support local non-profit organizations.

Belong at the City of Durango: 

We believe in creating an inclusive workforce that welcomes diversity of thoughts, viewpoints, and experiences. 

The City of Durango is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.