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Industry: Government Administration
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

City and County of San Francisco

Savvy Admin PROD

**Company Description**

- Application Opening: May 18, 2026

- Application Filing Deadline: May 22, 2026 at 5:00PM PDT

- Salary: $77,402 - $94,094

- Recruitment ID: (RTF0162722) / TPV-7514-162723

**APPOINTMENT TYPE: ** 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 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**

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.

**Work Location: 505 Paloma Way, Sunol, CA**

**Work Schedule: 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday**

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**

-  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.

-  Clears culverts, stakes fabric to prevent erosion of work sites, and cements and rip-raps upstream and downstream of culverts.

-  Stabilizes embankments by building wet walls and drywalls alongside roadways and waterways.

-  Clears obstacles prior to machine mowing.

-  Serves as flag operator and sets up traffic barricades and lights or other barriers around work sites (on streets or in other locations).

-  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.

-  Installs and maintains chain link, barbed wire and hogwire fencing; cements watershed gate posts and chain link fence posts.

-  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).

-  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.

-  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.

-  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.

-  Mixes and prepares concrete.

-  Assists in the application of concrete and asphalt to repair roads and sidewalks.

-  Sweeps streets and sidewalks

-  Applies disinfectants, de-greasers, and herbicides to streets and sidewalks.

-  Scrubs streets, sidewalks, and plazas with a broom or high-pressure water hose.

-  Picks up litter and puts debris into bags.

-  Cleans up illegal dumping sites, homeless encampments, spills on city streets, and sites of accidents.

-  Removes litter and signs from poles and benches.

-  Uses radio communication system or other communication devices.

-  Manages a tool room, distributing tools and tracking inventory.

-  Completes forms such as work orders, daily work or field reports, and/or accident report forms.

-  Drives a truck and/or car to work sites and follows route or other maps.

-  Prepare surfaces for painting; removes graffiti from public/private property using a computerized color matching program, soda blaster, and/or steam cleaner.

-  Performs other related duties as required.

**Nature of Work:**

Sustains physical effort, such as standing or walking for prolonged periods, lifts heavy/imbedded manhole covers weighing in excess of 75 lbs., has great manual dexterity, wears respiratory protection equipment, has frequent exposure to potential hazards and exposure to inclement weather, works around extreme wildlife, working above water, working in small, confined spaces or at great heights.

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Qualifications:**

**Experience: **Three (3) years (6000 hours) of journey-level experience as a general laborer in the construction field; AND

**License and Certification: **Possession of a valid Class C California driver license (must be maintained during employment).

**Substitution: ** Completion of a California Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) or United States Department of Labor (DOL) approved apprentice construction laborer program may be substituted for the required experience.

~~Important Note:~~

- One year of full-time employment is equivalent to 2000 hours. (2000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week.) Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the calculation to determine full-time employment.

- Applications without listed duties will not be considered and rejected.

- Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

**Desirable Qualifications: **The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring:

- Fence Repair Experience - Minimum six months of verifiable experience

- Vegetation Experience – minimum six months of verifiable experience

- Confined Space Experience - minimum six months of verifiable experience

- Trenching Experience – minimum six months of verifiable experience

- Concrete work Experience – minimum six months of verifiable experience

Additional Information

**Verification of Education and Experience:**

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. Education verification information on verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at How to Verify Education Requirements (sfdhr.org).

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

**DRUG TESTING REQUIREMENT:**

Applicants for positions in this classification who are not currently employed by the City and County of San Francisco in a safety-sensitive position represented by Laborers Int, Local 261, are required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing. All employees in this classification may also be subject to drug and alcohol testing upon reasonable suspicion or after a work-related accident. Applicants with a positive result from a pre-employment drug test will be restricted from hire in safety-sensitive positions for six-months after the date of the positive test.

**What else should I know?**

**Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:**

- Information About the Hiring Process

- Conviction History

- Employee Benefits Overview

- Equal Employment Opportunity

- Disaster Service Worker

- ADA Accommodation

- Veterans Preference

- Right to Work

- Copies of Application Documents

- Diversity Statement

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are **only ** accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

- Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. **Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.**

**Analyst Information: **If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Crystal Liu, at cliu@sfwater.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.

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