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Bear Creek Road & Bridge Intern

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Harris County

Feb 9

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Sustainability
  • Houston

Requirements

  • Applicants must be a minimum of 15 years old and currently enrolled in an educational institution
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
  • Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
  • Ability to apply common sense language to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
  • Impeccable honesty and integrity.
  • Respectful of people, places, and things.
  • Flexibility is a must.
  • Demonstrates sound work ethic and ability to self-motivate and motivate others.
  • Work Environment and Physical Demands:
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands, the employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance and talk or hear.
  • The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The employee frequently works in outside weather conditions and is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities

  • Cleans ditches and culverts of brush, trash, and rubbish.
  • Trims overhanging branches and bushes.
  • Patches potholes with asphalt and repairs concrete sidewalks.
  • Picks up trash along roadways and rights-of-way.
  • Uses shovels, rakes, weed-eaters, and other equipment.
  • Other duties may be assigned as deemed appropriate.

Harris County

Government
Industry
10,001+
Employees

Mission & Purpose

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of 2000 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 3,400,578 (though a 2007 estimate placed the population at 4,011,475), making it the most populous county in Texas and the third most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston.