Transit Facility Utility Laborers perform a wide variety of laboring tasks and semi-skilled work throughout King County. Primary areas of work are bus route shelter cleaning, landscape/grounds maintenance, bus tunnel maintenance/cleaning and semi-skilled assistance to skilled trades. Utility Laborers may report to our North Facilities location in north Seattle, our South Facilities location in Tukwila and/or our Downtown Transit Tunnel.
Who May Apply
This career service position is open to the general public. Current qualified King County Transit Local 587 internal applicants will be given first consideration. This recruitment will be used to fill Three current vacancies and may be used to establish an eligibility list to fill future career service/and or temporary vacancies that may occur over the next twelve months.
Forms and Materials Required
An online King County application and completion of the supplemental questionnaire are required.
Work Schedule
This position is overtime eligible and employees must be available and willing to work any of three shifts (day, swing and graveyard). Swing and graveyard shifts receive premium pay. Positions are generally staffed seven days a week including holidays, except the landscape/grounds maintenance shifts, which currently work Monday through Friday. Shift placement is determined by union seniority and subject to semi-annual change. These positions are subject to 24-hour call-out response to emergencies, including operation of trucks with snow plows and sanders in adverse weather conditions.
About King County Metro Transit
King County Metro Transit is a regional leader in helping people move quickly throughout the region, reducing commuter stress, greening the environment and radically improving urban air quality, by providing comfortable, effective transit services for the thousands of commuters and other residents of King County, Washington. Working for Metro means working for a leader in this public transportation industry.
Competitive Benefits
King County provides our employees with a free transportation pass (good on Metro, Pierce, Community and Sound Transit) and a generous benefits package, (see Benefits tab for more details).
For more information regarding this recruitment, please contact:
Troika L. Braswell
Senior Human Resource Analyst
Tbraswell@kingcounty.gov
JOB DUTIES:
Applying equity and social justice principles is a daily responsibility and a foundational expectation for all King County employees. In this role you will apply equity and social justice principles that exemplify shared values, behaviors, and practices to all aspects of the work.
King County offers a highly-competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and support our employees' health and well-being. Eligible positions receive the following benefits and have access to the following programs:
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