Service Emloyee

**Summary**:
**Representative Functions**:

- Moves buses, trucks, and cars by driving them from assigned parking spaces to the fuel-island to be serviced or repaired.
- Removes cash-vaults from buses at the fuel-island; empties and returns vaults onto buses; refers vault defects to Maintenance Supervisors as necessary to avoid and resolve problems; and complete Loose Revenue forms.
- Cleans interior and exterior of buses, trucks, and cars including sweeping, vacuuming, mopping floors, washing windows; cleaning interior and exterior walls, seats, ledges, dash boards, and ceilings in order to maintain a clean appearance and sanitary conditions.
- Performs additional cleaning and maintenance functions, such as removing graffiti, spraying coaches for insects, and decontamination and cleaning of blood and toxins.
- Performs visual inspection of buses; checks for defects and broken or spent light bulbs, lamps, and tubes; and notes problems on defect card.
- Steam cleans bus engines and the undersides of the buses to permit effective visual safety inspections, to reduce the possibility of fire, and to maintain clean surfaces.
- Monitors fluid levels such as fuel, oil, and coolant for all District revenue and service vehicles including sweepers and forklifts; and adds fluids to optimal levels as needed.
- Shampoos upholstery using heavy-duty equipment.
- Generates and maintains written records of vehicles to which fuel, oil, coolant and other fluids have been added.
- Cleans fuel-islands to maintain safe working conditions and a neat clean appearance.
- Operates forklift to dump trash and to lift heavy objects such as 55 gallon soap barrels; and may operate yard scrubbers.
- May operate automated equipment used in cleaning vehicles.
- May be required to move out-of-service buses via the public streets (applies only to Service Employees who possess a Class B Driver License with Air Brake endorsement). Performs related duties as required.

**Minimum Qualifications**:
**5 years of licensed driving experience is required** (includes regular Class C licensed driving)**

**Knowledge Of**:The English language at a level necessary to read District bulletins, instructions, polices, and procedures; fill out required forms and records, and communicate effectively with co-workers; basic arithmetic; and industrial and shop safety rules, regulations, and procedures applicable to a bus maintenance facility.

**Ability To**:Learn to drive buses short distances, including parking and backing up using mirrors; quickly learn and effectively and safely use the equipment and tools necessary for the job; follow established safety practices and assume continuous responsibility for maintaining safe working conditions; wear and/or use required personal protection and safety equipment; work as part of a team or alone; maintain a suitable temperament for effectively performing repetitive or continuous duties; work irregular or extended hours; learn and maintain satisfactory bus and forklift driving skills; monitor fuel and use fluid measuring devices; complete required forms, including defect cards, and generate and maintain comprehensive records and reports to District standards to ensure all assigned vehicles are fit-for-service; possess the ability to react to change productively and handle new tasks as assigned; and establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work using principles of excellent customer service.

**Additional Information**:
**License Requirements**: Must possess or obtain and maintain a valid California Class C California Drivers License and meet the District's safe driving standards.

**Optional License Desired**:A California Class B Drivers License with Air Brake endorsement.

**THIS POSITION IS A UNION POSITION, REPRESENTED BY ATU**


**Benefits**:The transit professionals who call AC Transit home represent the rich cultural diversity of the Bay Area. For more than 60 years, we have been an equal opportunity employer honoring religion, ethnic background, national origin, gender, gender expression, genetic information, disabilities, age, and veteran status.
We are not only an inclusive employer but also offer a comprehensive benefits package rooted in choice, flexibility, and affordability. Most Benefits are effective the first of the month following your hire date. Employees and eligible dependents have access to the following benefits*:

- Medical - Choice of two Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs): Kaiser Permanente and Health Net. $10.00 office visit co-pays; $5.00 - $35.00 prescription co-pays.
- Dental - MetLife Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) $50 annual deductible per person/$150 per family; $3,000 per person annual maximum; preventative care covered at 100%; basic and major care covered at 90%; $4,000 lifetime maximum orthodontia covered at 50%.
- Vision - Vision Service Plan - $10.00 copay; eligible for an exam, lenses, frames or contact lenses every 1