Job Details

Salary: $16.56 - $20.13 Hourly
Location : Public Services 12650 E. Imperial Hwy., CA
Job Type: Hourly/At-Will/Part-Time
Job Number: 26-61JS/CE
Department: Public Services
Opening Date: 02/09/2026
Closing Date: 2/23/2026 1:55 PM Pacific
Max Number of Applicants: 30

This recruitment will remain open until a sufficient number of applications are received. The City reserves the right to limit the applications to the first 30 applicants. This recruitment may close at any time; apply immediately.

This position will work approximately 25 hours per week and may be required to work various hours, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
The City of Norwalk seeks an enthusiastic Maintenance Assistant to join its Public Services department in its Graffiti Division on the weekends. This entry-level position offers an excellent opportunity to learn valuable skills that can help kick-start a career in the utilities or service industry.
As a Maintenance Assistant, you will be responsible for performing a range of unskilled tasks related to the maintenance, custodial services, and upkeep of City buildings and facilities, parks and recreation buildings, grounds, and open spaces. Additionally, you will assist higher-level Maintenance Workers with custodial services, facilities, parks and grounds maintenance, general cleanup, and repair work.
It's important to note that this class is different from the Maintenance Worker I position, as the latter is responsible for some semi-skilled work and assignments in traffic maintenance and tree trimming.

Essential Duties
Depending upon assignment, essential duties include but are not limited to, the following:

PARKS
Maintains and cleans parks and open space areas around City buildings, park facilities including picnic areas and barbecues, restrooms and athletic fields; performs routine landscaping including, planting, trimming, weeding and fertilizing; assists with graffiti removal in parks.

FACILITIES
Provides custodial services for facilities, including floors, cleaning restrooms, and removal of trash; sweeps, mops, scrubs, strips, polishes, and waxes floors; cleans rugs and carpets; dusts, polishes, and waxes furniture and woodwork; cleans and stocks restrooms; empties and cleans waste receptacles and ashtrays; washes walls, windows, mirrors, and blinds; responsible for building security; locking and unlocking rooms; moves furniture or other heavy objects for set up of City functions. Assists with preparation of surfaces for painting; assists with graffiti removal on city buildings and facilities.

STREETS
Assists with the repair and maintenance of streets, curbs, sidewalks and storm drains; breaks up concrete and/or asphalt surfaces; digs, shovels, hauls and loads and unloads soils, sands, asphalt mixes and other materials; operates hand and power tools; assists in building forms for pouring concrete and finish cement work; cleans up work sites upon completion of jobs; observes safe work methods and safety practices, including the coning and flagging at work sites to secure from traffic; responds to emergency situations as required.

Qualification Guidelines
Knowledge of: tools, equipment and materials used in facility, parks, streets and trees/greenscape maintenance.

Ability to: learn to perform custodial and general maintenance work; perform work effectively and safely with others; understand and follow oral and written directions.

Education and/or Experience
Any combination of education and/or experience that has provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for satisfactory job performance. Graduation from high school or equivalent is required. Must exhibit willingness to learn and perform duties associated with grounds, building maintenance, custodial work and street maintenance.

Required licenses and Certificates
Possession of or ability to obtain an appropriate California driver's license and a satisfactory driving record.

Supplemental Information
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, grasp, feel, perform repetitive motions or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. Employees are regularly required to pull, push, walk, stand, crouch, kneel and stoop. Depending on assignment, employees are frequently required to balance and climb. The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

Depending on assignment, the employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds frequently, in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific visual abilities required by this job include those required for those who operate cars, trucks, and other heavy equipment.

Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job and depending on assignment, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions, works near moving mechanical parts and is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibration; works in precarious places and is exposed to fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electric shock. The noise level in the work environment is frequently loud in field settings.
SELECTION PROCESS

Apply online at . Employment application and supplemental questions must be completed. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application. Applicant must be specific in describing qualifications for this position on application. Failure to state all pertinent information may lead to elimination from consideration. Stating "See Resume" is not an acceptable substitute for a completed application. Faxed materials or postmarks will not be accepted. Applications will be screened in relation to the criteria outlined in the job announcement. Candidates with qualifications that best relate to the position will be invited to participate in the selection process. Possession of the minimum qualifications does not ensure continuation in the selection process. The selection process will include an oral interview and other testing processes designed to predict successful job performance.
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The City provides preference to military veterans under consideration for initial employment. To claim veteran's preference an applicant must submit their most recent DD214 form. An eligible veteran is one who has served in the United States armed forces and who has received an honorable discharge.
Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities may be requested by calling the Department of Human Resources at least three (3) business days prior to the scheduled examination/interview date. The provisions of this bulletin do not constitute an expressed or implied contract. Any provision contained in this bulletin may be modified or revoked without notice.
The City of Norwalk, in compliance with all applicable Federal and State laws, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, religion, disability, sex, or sexual orientation in its employment actions, policies, procedures or practices.
BENEFITS FOR HOURLY/AT-WILL/PART-TIME EMPLOYEES
Terms of Employment: All employees hired as Hourly/At-Will/Part-Time are employed "at-will" throughout the term of their employment with the City. Consequently, the services of a Hourly/At-Will/Part-Time employee can be discontinued at anytime without cause, regardless of the number of hours worked for the City by the employee.

Retirement: Membership in the Public Agency Retirement System (PARS) is required. The employee pays the 7.5% retirement contribution.

Credit Union: The City is affiliated with the Los Angles County F & A Federal Credit Union. Please check with the Department of Human Resources for details.

Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available to provide help to employees and members of their families who are experiencing personal problems. For more information, contact the Department of Human Resources.

Paid Holidays: After 3,000 hours of employment, an hourly employee is entitled to six hours pay for specified holidays designated in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

Vacation Leave: After 3,000 hours of employment, vacation leave is accumulated at the rate of .046 hours for each hour of straight time worked.

Sick Leave: Beginning on the 30th day of employment with the City, employee will accrue sick leave at the rate of .033 hours for each hour of straight time worked. No sick leave shall be taken until the 90th day of employment. After 3,000 hours of employment, sick leave is accumulated at the rate of .046 hours for each hour of straight time worked.

Medical Plan: Eligibility for medical coverage is determined using the Affordable Care Act guidelines. Employees may also qualify after 3,000 hours of employment.

Voluntary Insurance Plans: Optional Short Term Disability, Hospitalization, Accident and Cancer insurance policies are available at the employee's cost.

Veteran's Preference: The City provides preference to military veterans under consideration for initial employment. To claim veteran's preference an applicant must submit their most recent DD214 form. An eligible veteran is one who has served in the United States armed forces and who has received an honorable discharge.
01

Are you willing to work on Saturdays and/or Sundays?

• Yes
• No

02

Please indicate if you have any experience in soil preparation, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

03

Please indicate if you have any experience in Repairing hinges, locks, window etc., and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

04

Please indicate if you have any experience in planting and pruning trees, scrubs, and flowers, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

05

Please indicate if you have any experience in painting trim, doors, windows, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

06

Please indicate if you have any experience in mowing and edging lawns, fields, and other turf, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

07

Please indicate if you have any experience in maintenance of sanitary systems, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

08

Please indicate if you have any experience in using sprayers, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

09

Please indicate if you have any experience in using brushes and rollers, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

10

Please indicate if you have any experience in painting traffic legends and curbs, and if so, approximately how much

• None
• Some (Less than 2 yrs)
• Moderate (2-5 yrs)
• Extensive (more than 5 yrs)

11

Please indicate below the hours you are available to work Sunday - Saturday, and include any scheduling comments you might have.
Required Question