Job Specification
SANITATION DRIVER
DEFINITION:
Under direction drives, cleans, services, and makes minor repairs
to a sanitation truck; occasionally may perform manual and unskilled
laboring work in connection with sanitation truck driving; does related
work as required.
EXAMPLES OF WORK:
Drives to landfill or other designated area and dumps refuse.
Keeps check on pressure gauges for hydraulic pumps and other
mechanisms.
May be required to assist in loading sanitation truck.
Cleans and greases sanitation truck.
Makes minor repairs to sanitation truck.
Keeps necessary records.
May be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic
and/or manual recording and information systems used by the
agency, office or related units.
REQUIREMENTS:
EXPERIENCE:
One (1) year of experience in driving a truck with tandem/dual
rear axles and a gross vehicle weight of at least 26,000 pounds and
with auxiliary equipment such as a snow plow, salt spreader, power
take-off, winch, lift body, or hydraulic lifting device.
LICENSE:
Appointees must possess a valid Commercial Driver's License
(CDL) and applicable endorsements for the class and type of vehicle
being operated.
NOTE: The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess
the required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and
type of vehicles they operate, rests with the appointing authority.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of the care, maintenance, competent, safe, and
efficient operation of sanitation trucks, including cleaning,
lubrication, servicing of batteries, care of tires, and of minor repair
procedures.
Knowledge of the use of air brakes, trolley brake control, and
limiter valve, of the proper method of double clutching a transmission
when shifting, and of the hydraulic system that operates tailgate and
pusher plate.
Knowledge of the difference between a synchromesh transmission
and a constant transmission and how to operate them.
Ability to analyze problems involving the operation of trucks.
Ability to understand, remember, and carry out oral and
written directions.
Ability to learn from explanations and demonstrations.
Ability to drive trucks in a skilled and safe manner.
Ability to check, clean, service, and make minor emergency
repairs to trucks.
Ability to keep necessary records.
Ability to operate a transmission with a power take off.
Ability to properly shift a five speed transmission with
auxiliary transmission.
Ability to recognize when hydraulic system is overloaded.
Ability to recognize when hydraulic system is low on oil and
to add proper amount of oil when needed and to properly read
controlling gauges to prevent damage to equipment or injury to
personnel.
Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual
recording and information systems used by the agency,
office or related units.
Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in
English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American
Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable
forms of communication.
Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as
long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after
reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations.
If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause
the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
This job specification is applicable to the following title code: | | Job
Spec
Code | Variant | State,
Local or
Common | Class of
Service | Work
Week | State
Class
Code | Local
Class
Code | Salary
Range | Note | | 03108 | | L | C | | N/A | 04 | | - |
This job specification is for local government use only.
Salary range is only applicable to state government.
Local salaries are established by individual local jurisdictions.
12/11/1993 |
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