Part-Time Bus Driver

Description The Dougherty County Public Works Department has a vacancy for a Mechanic III. The purpose of the class is to provide expert level maintenance and repair of the county vehicles, including heavy equipment. The class is responsible for providing routine and basic repairs as needed. The class works within a general outline of work to be performed; develops work methods and sequences under general supervision.

Essential Tasks

VOCATIONAL/EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION: Vocational/Educational preparation includes job specific training and education required for entry into this job. The training and education may be acquired in a school, work, military, institutional or vocational environment. It does not include the orientation time required of a fully qualified worker to become accustomed to the special conditions of any new job, nor does it include the amount of time that a worker spends to learn reasoning, language, and mathematical skills, which are often learned in school.

Requires high school diploma or GED, formal training, and specialized advanced training in diesel, gas and small engine repair or a closely related field.

SPECIAL CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES: Special Certifications and Licenses refers to state, federal, or professional certifications or licenses required to enter or maintain the job.

Requires a valid Georgia commercial driver’s license, ASF, and TMAC certifications.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Experience refers to the amount of work experience that is required for entry level into the position that would result in a reasonable expectation that the employee can perform the job. It may be experience that can be gained on the job or experience in a previous job.

Requires over six months and up to and including one year.

Minimum Qualification

Must be a high school graduate or equivalent, with one (1) year of vocational/educational training in diesel, gas and small engine repair.

Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience which will provide the knowledge, skill and ability to perform the duties of the position.

Must have a CDL with a Hazmat endorsement.

Supplemental Information

DATA INVOLVEMENT: Data are information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.

Requires summarizing, tabulating, or formatting data or information in accordance with a prescribed schema or plan to facilitate the identification and extraction of useful information.

PEOPLE INVOLVEMENT: People include coworkers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.

Requires giving information, guidance, or assistance to people to directly facilitate task accomplishment; may give instructions or assignments to helpers or assistants.

INVOLVEMENT WITH THINGS: Things are inanimate objects such as substances, materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products. A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical characteristics.

Requires handling or using machines, tools, or equipment that require moderate instruction and experience such as large shop equipment and machines used to repair vehicles including heavy equipment.

REASONING REQUIREMENTS: Reasoning requires consideration of factors and variables to derive solutions to problems.

Requires performing semi-skilled work involving set procedures, but with frequent problems.

MATHEMATICAL REQUIREMENTS: Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.

Requires performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may calculate ratios, rates and percents.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: Language involves the ability to read, write, and speak.

Requires reading routine sentences, instructions, regulations, procedures, or work orders; writing routine sentences and completing routine job forms and incident reports; speaking routine sentences using proper grammar.

MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Mental ability involves analysis, initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and concentration required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.

Requires application of a wide range of technical methods; requires general understanding of operating policies and procedures and the ability to apply these to complex problems; requires continuous, close attention for accurate results with frequent exposure to unusual pressures.

PHYSICAL AND DEXTERITY REQUIREMENTS: Physical and dexterity refers to the requirement for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.

Requires medium work that involves walking, standing, stooping, stretching, lifting all of the time, exerting between 20 and 50 pounds of force on a recurring basis, exceptional skill, adeptness, and speed in the use of fingers, hands, or limbs in tasks involving very close tolerances or limits of accuracy.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: Environmental hazards refers to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.

The job risks exposure to dusts and pollen, extreme heat and/or cold, wet or humid conditions,

extreme noise levels, fumes and/or noxious odors, moving machinery, and toxic/caustic chemicals,

SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Sensory ability refers to hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell required by the job.

The job requires normal visual acuity, and field of vision, hearing, and speaking

JUDGMENTS AND DECISIONS: Judgments and decisions refers to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.

Requires being responsible for actions of others, requiring almost constant decisions, affecting coworkers and customers; works in a moderately fluid environment with guidelines and rules, but with frequent variations from the routine.

ADA COMPLIANCE

Dougherty County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the County to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

Dougherty County provides Full-time Classified Employees a comprehensive benefit package which includes the following:

• Life
• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Long-term Disability
• Retirement
• Paid Holidays
• Annual Leave
• Sick Leave
• Deferred Compensation