Construction Crew Leader

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

The purpose of the class is to provide leadership and coordination for, and participate in, the work of staff involved in Richland County construction projects; to ensure the proper maintenance of assigned equipment; and to perform related work as required. The class works within a general outline of work to be performed and develops work methods and sequences under general supervision.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Serves as a lead worker for construction crews as assigned; provides coordination, training, and instruction; and ensures crew members have adequate supplies and materials.
• Inspects the work of personnel for compliance with policies, procedures, work orders, and standards of quality and safety; ensures the timely completion of assigned tasks.
• Operates various heavy machinery and trains subordinate personnel in its proper use.
• Performs all work in accordance with County policies, procedures, and standards of cleanliness, quality, and safety.
• Attends training, workshops, and meetings as necessary to enhance job knowledge and skills.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Requires high school diploma, GED or specialized vocational training.
• Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in related field.

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• Any combination of education and experience that meets the requirements for performing the essential functions of this job.

Licenses/Certifications/Other:

•  Must possess a valid state Class A commercial driver’s license.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Involvement: Requires coordinating or determining time, place or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data or information and may implement and report on operations and activities.
• People Involvement: Requires managing, supervising or leading others by determining work procedures, assigning duties, maintaining harmonious relations and promoting efficiency.
• Involvement with Things: Requires handling or using machines requiring moderate instruction and experience such as specialty equipment and tools, computers, and software programs such as word processing, spreadsheets or custom applications.
• Reasoning Requirements: Requires performing coordinating work involving guidelines and rules, with constant problem-solving.

• Mathematical Requirements: Requires using basic addition and subtraction, such as making change or measuring.
• Language Requirements: Requires reading simple sentences, instructions or work orders; writing simple sentences and completing simple job forms; speaking simple sentences using basic grammar.

• Mental Requirements: Requires doing clerical, manual or technical tasks prescribed by standard practices but which may require computation, the use of several procedures, and the use of independent judgments with obvious choices; requires normal attention for accurate results.
• Computer Requirements: Must be proficient in use of Microsoft Office.
• Judgments and Decisions: Responsible for guiding others, requiring frequent decisions affecting co-workers and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures but with many variations from the routine.

Physical Requirements:

• The work is medium to heavy work which requires the person to occasionally exert up to 100 pounds of force, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to grasp, lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion:  Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading. Including color, depth perception, and field vision. Visual Acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays. This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee’s physical presence at the workplace. The job may risk exposure to bright/dim light, dusts and pollen, extreme heat and/or cold, wet or humid conditions, fumes and/or noxious odors, traffic, moving machinery, toxic/caustic chemicals, disease/pathogens, etc. Work is performed in an environment with heavy equipment and machinery that could result in bodily harm to co-workers or others.

EEO AND ADA MESSAGE

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein.  Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

Richland 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.

Richland County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.