Erie's Public Schools

Laborer


PayCompetitive
LocationErie/Pennsylvania
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: 1538
    • Position Type:
      Maintenance/Custodial/ Maintenance General

    • Date Posted:
      2/24/2025

    • Location:
      '); 'Facilities

    • Must possess a current PA Driver’s License and be insurable by Erie’s Public Schools
    • Must have the ability to operate various types of vehicles such as Box Trucks up to 24’ feet in length, F-150 plow trucks, and stake body rear lift gate trucks
    • Must be a team player and have good people skills
    • Ability to lift 50-80 pounds
    • Proficiency in the use of mechanic’s hand tools and equipment
    • Perform a variety of jobs requiring some degree of manual skill and prior work experience or training with light to heavy physical effort, using related equipment
    • Possess the ability to operate heavy power mowers, saws, chain saws and related equipment
    • Work may include maintenance of grounds, general laborer assisting all trades with labor tasks, and may require being outside or inside
    • Required to help assemble and disassemble scaffolding
    • Dig ditches and trenches with pick and shovel
    • Break up concrete and pavement with jackhammer
    • Ability to pour asphalt and hot mix patching, crakes, potholes in driveways, parking lots and playgrounds
    • Must be able to drive large tractor for grass cutting
    • Perform other related laboring work as assigned
    • Physical Demands: Ability to move equipment weighing 75 + lbs., climb ladders, and work in high places. Sufficient physical ability, strength, mobility and stamina to lift, carry, push or pull objects that exceed 75 pounds in a series of functional tests, simulating the work environment.
    • Work Environment: Ability to work after school hours including weekends and/or evenings
    • Sufficient physical ability, strength, mobility and stamina to drive a vehicle, climb ladders, crawl under buildings, bend, stretch, stand, kneel, walk, stoop, crawl and extend legs
    • Sufficient physical ability, strength, mobility and stamina to perform heavy physical labor in hot, cold and inclement weather conditions
    • Sufficient physical ability, mobility and stamina to work in small spaces with arms extended
    • Title: Laborer

      Location: Service Center (7:00 AM – 3:30 PM)

      Salary: $17.32/hour


      Qualifications:
      • Must possess a current PA Driver’s License and be insurable by Erie’s Public Schools
      • Must have the ability to operate various types of vehicles such as Box Trucks up to 24’ feet in length, F-150 plow trucks, and stake body rear lift gate trucks
      • Must be a team player and have good people skills
      • Ability to lift 50-80 pounds
      • Proficiency in the use of mechanic’s hand tools and equipment


      Typical Duties and Responsibilities:
      • Perform a variety of jobs requiring some degree of manual skill and prior work experience or training with light to heavy physical effort, using related equipment
      • Possess the ability to operate heavy power mowers, saws, chain saws and related equipment
      • Work may include maintenance of grounds, general laborer assisting all trades with labor tasks, and may require being outside or inside
      • Required to help assemble and disassemble scaffolding
      • Dig ditches and trenches with pick and shovel
      • Break up concrete and pavement with jackhammer
      • Ability to pour asphalt and hot mix patching, crakes, potholes in driveways, parking lots and playgrounds
      • Must be able to drive large tractor for grass cutting
      • Perform other related laboring work as assigned


      Special Requirements:
      • Physical Demands: Ability to move equipment weighing 75 + lbs., climb ladders, and work in high places. Sufficient physical ability, strength, mobility and stamina to lift, carry, push or pull objects that exceed 75 pounds in a series of functional tests, simulating the work environment.
      • Work Environment: Ability to work after school hours including weekends and/or evenings
      • Sufficient physical ability, strength, mobility and stamina to drive a vehicle, climb ladders, crawl under buildings, bend, stretch, stand, kneel, walk, stoop, crawl and extend legs
      • Sufficient physical ability, strength, mobility and stamina to perform heavy physical labor in hot, cold and inclement weather conditions
      • Sufficient physical ability, mobility and stamina to work in small spaces with arms extended


      TESTS WILL BE ADMINISTERED TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY


  • About the company

      Erie's Public Schools serve the City of Erie in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Erie is the state's fourth-largest city with an estimated population of 99,452. The school district enrollment is approximately 12,000 across 18 public schools. The City is the ...

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