Maintenance Lead Worker - Environmental Programs

Maintenance Lead Worker For Environmental Programs

Under the direction of the assigned supervisor, the Maintenance Lead Worker for Environmental Programs provides day-to-day field leadership, coordination, and oversight of cleanup, abatement, and environmental maintenance crews. The position manages work assignments, resource allocation, safety compliance, and field documentation, and serves as acting supervisor when required while ensuring adherence to City service standards. This advanced journey-level, lead classification is distinguished from the Senior Maintenance Worker by its formal leadership responsibilities, work planning duties, and coordination across multiple crews or field activities. The position operates under limited supervision and exercises moderate independent judgment. Forklift Operator Certification is required by the end of probation.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Organizes, plans, schedules, and assigns daily work tasks to field crews performing dumping abatement, cleanup, tire retrieval, structure board-ups, warehouse staging, and event preparation.
• Provides field direction, technical guidance, and training to Maintenance Workers, Senior Maintenance Workers, seasonal staff, and sentence workers; monitors performance and enforces safety procedures.
• Prepares labor, material, and equipment estimates for assigned projects; coordinates procurement and ensures adequate inventory levels with warehouse personnel.
• Safely operates and directs others in the proper use of compacting trash trucks, grapple trucks, utility trailers, front loaders, and related City vehicles and equipment.
• Oversees and participates in the removal and proper handling of illegally dumped materials, hazardous debris (under authorized PPE protocols), and encampment waste, ensuring proper segregation and documentation.
• Leads board-up and property securement operations for vacant structures, including basic painting, panel installation, and limited fabrication or welding where permitted.
• Completes or reviews tire manifests, cost-recovery worksheets, dump slips, and related documentation for regulatory and financial tracking, using computers, tablets, or mobile devices.
• Investigates and resolves routine public complaints related to illegal dumping, property debris accumulation, or unsecured structures; coordinates field response and documentation.
• Supports inspection efforts to verify waste service status or assess cleanup needs for residential and commercial properties.
• Ensures tools, vehicles, and equipment are operated safely, maintained properly, and stored correctly; identifies repair or replacement needs.
• Assists with planning, staffing, and coordinating Adopt-a-Street events, neighborhood cleanups, community recycling activities, and other Environmental Programs initiatives.
• Assists in staffing environmental information booths and providing general program awareness during community events.
• Conducts tailgate safety briefings and reinforces OSHA/Cal/OSHA-compliant work practices, including PPE use, confined space considerations (as applicable), and hazard mitigation.
• Reviews field records, provides input on crew performance, and ensures completion of material logs, activity reports, and work documentation.
• Responds to after-hours or emergency cleanup operations as assigned.
• Serves as acting supervisor during absences or as designated.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

Minimum qualifications:

Education and Experience: High school diploma or GED equivalent and three (3) years of general labor or general maintenance experience, including one (1) year in a senior or supervisory capacity.

License(s)/Certifications:

• Must possess a valid California Class A or B Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with air brake endorsement and maintain it throughout employment.
• Successful completion of Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training from the San Bernardino County Fire Department (or equivalent) is required by the end of the twelve (12) month probationary period and must be maintained throughout employment.
• Successful completion of Forklift Operator Certification by the end of the twelve (12) month probationary period and must be maintained throughout employment.
• Additional certifications and/or training in hazardous materials handling, confined space awareness, environmental cleanup operations, and court-appointed sentence worker supervision may be required or preferred, depending on the assignment.

Knowledge of:

• Methods and procedures used in environmental cleanup, abatement, and waste management.
• Principles of crew leadership, scheduling, and performance monitoring.
• Heavy equipment operation, preventive maintenance, and repair identification.
• HAZWOPER, Cal/OSHA, and environmental safety regulations.
• Field documentation, cost recovery tracking, and compliance reporting.
• City and department policies, codes, and public service protocols.

Skill and Ability to:

• Plan, assign, and oversee daily work of maintenance crews and volunteers.
• Train and mentor staff in safe work practices and proper equipment operation.
• Review and verify field documentation for accuracy and completeness.
• Operate and direct others in use of specialized cleanup equipment.
• Communicate professionally with the public and respond to service concerns.
• Use computers, tablets, and asset management software for documentation and reporting.

Physical demands & working environment:

• Works primarily outdoors in the field, and is exposed to extreme weather conditions including wind, heat, cold, and rain
• May be required to climb ladders, work in trenches, and work in confined spaces.
• Requires balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.
• Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally (up to 1/3 of workday), 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently (1/3 to 2/3 of workday), 10 pounds of force constantly (2/3 or more of workday). Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for light work.
• May be exposed to machinery, moving mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, intense noise, fumes, smoke, grease, odors, dust, and wide temperature variations.
• Frequently required to lift moderately heavy to heavy objects.
• Must be able to see and hear in the normal range, with or without correction, and communicate clearly in verbal and in written form with great facility and must be able to be understood.
• Must be able to respond to emergencies after regular working hours and on weekends.
• Must be willing to work an irregular schedule, including weekends, holidays, evenings, and varying shifts.