Position Description
Working At Harris County Precinct 4:
Harris County Precinct 4 is seeking a Road Maintenance Intern. This position follows instructions and performs various manual tasks crucial to maintaining and repairing Precinct 4 roads, bridges, and easements.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• Cleans ditches and culverts of brush, trash, and rubbish.
• Trims overhanging branches and bushes.
• Patches potholes with asphalt and repairs concrete sidewalks.
• Picks up trash along roadways and rights-of-way.
• Uses shovels, rakes, weed eaters, and other equipment.
Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer
https://hrrm.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/EqualEmploymentOpportunityPlan.aspx
If you need special services or accommodations, please call (713) 274-5445 or email ADACoordinator@bmd.hctx.net
This position is subject to a criminal history check. Only relevant convictions will be considered and, even when considered, may not automatically disqualify the candidate.
Requirements
Education & Experience
• Must have completed at least one (1) year of high school education.
• Must have a valid ID.
• Needs reliable transportation to and from work.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Honest and trustworthiness
• Punctuality
• Ability to exhibit strong work ethic
• Respectful of all living beings, places, and things
• Flexibility to manage time and prioritization of projects
NOTE: Qualifying education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be documented on your job application. You may attach a resume to the application as supporting documentation but ONLY information stated on the application will be used for consideration. "See Resume" will not be accepted for qualifications .
Preferences
• Resident of Harris County Precinct 4
General Information
Position Type, Salary and Typical Hours of Work:
• Internship
Work Environment and Physical Demands:
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands and fingers
• The intern, frequently, is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, or balance.
• They must also talk or hear.
• This position must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The employee frequently works in outside weather conditions and is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WHAT YOU WILL GET IN RETURN:
You will be surrounded by team members who bring “heart, hustle, and higher standards” to work each day. These leaders advance opportunity and justice as they deliver services to and advocate for the residents of Harris County. The team you will be joining is innovative, dynamic, and forward-looking. Harris County employees and interns receive a competitive salary.
Employment may be contingent on passing a drug screen and meeting other standards.
Due to a high volume of applications positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.
