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Company Description Application Opening:March 23, 2026 Application Deadline:March 30, 2026 Compensation Range:$77,402 - $94,094 Recruitment ID:RTF0163209-01148788 (TPV-7514-163210) TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:PROVISIONAL (TPV) This is not a permanent appointment.A provisional appointee must participate and be successful in a Civil Service examination for this classification and be selected through an open competitive process in order to be considered for permanent appointment.Provisional appointments may not exceed three (3) years.WHO ARE WE? San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area - 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.Our Mission:To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.Our Vision:We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment.To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.org/.We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.org/about-us/careers-sfpuc Job Description Position Summary:Under general supervision, performs a variety of manual labor tasks such as removing debris from construction, maintenance, wrecking, or repair work; loading and unloading materials, supplies, furniture, and equipment; may work as part of a crew with other crafts; and operating various types of equipment and machinery including pneumatic and hand tools associated with general construction.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:1.Excavates trenches (using various pneumatic and hand tools, including 90-pound jackhammers) for water and sewer lines, underground utility repair, or electrical conduits; backfills and compacts excavations; and potholes transmission mains and service piping.2.Clears culverts, stakes fabric to prevent erosion of work sites, and cements and rip-raps upstream and downstream of culverts.3.Stabilizes embankments by building wetwalls and drywalls alongside roadways and waterways.4.Clears obstacles prior to machine mowing.5.Serves as flag operator and sets up traffic barricades and lights or other barriers around work sites (on streets or in other locations).6.Clears and chips vegetation, brush, limbs; clears firebreaks, watershed roadways, v-ditches, jogging and foot paths, pipeline rights-of-way, around structures, buildings, risers, vaults, and valve lots; cuts access routes to watershed domestic utility lines and springs; removes small trees and grinds stumps.7.Installs and maintains chain link, barbed wire and hogwire fencing; cements watershed gate posts and chain link fence posts.8.Loads and unloads materials, supplies, furniture, and/or equipment by hand or with booms, power tailgate, forklift, and other moving equipment for moving to and from worksites (examples:jackhammers, sandbags, cement bags, debris bags, railroad ties, whackers, vibratory plates).9.Removes and cleans up debris resulting from construction, maintenance, wrecking, or repair work around grounds and building areas using hands, broom, shovel, wheel barrow, etc.10.Works in confined spaces to assist in cleaning and flushing catch basins, septic tanks, or sewage treatment plants with shovels, hoses, and pumps to ensure proper drainage of the sewer system.11.Operates and maintains pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, and hand tools including air compressors, jack hammers, tie tampers, sand blasters, steam cleaners, hoists, drills, chain saws, cement mixers, chipping guns, weed whackers, spaders, stump grinders, fence stretchers, aerial lift buckets, and other hand tools to assist craft workers in getting their jobs done.12.Mixes and prepares concrete.13.Assists in the application of concrete and asphalt to repair roads and sidewalks.14.Sweeps streets and sidewalks 15.Applies disinfectants, de-greasers, and herbicides to streets and sidewalks.16.Scrubs streets, sidewalks, and plazas with a broom or high-pressure water hose.17.Picks up litter and puts debris into bags.18.Cleans up illegal dumping sites, spills on city streets, and sites of accidents.19.Removes litter and signs from poles and benches.20.Operates motorized sidewalk sweepers to clean sidewalks.21.Uses radio communication system or other communication devices.22.Manages a tool room, distributing tools and tracking inventory.23.Completes forms such as work orders, daily work or fiel