Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS:
Working conditions may include exposure to travel to other locations within the City of Richmond as well as outside of the City of Richmond. Working conditions include exposure to hazardous materials such as chemicals, blood, and other bodily fluids, etc.; frequent exposure to hazardous physical conditions such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, etc.; atmospheric conditions such as dusts, pollens, fumes, noxious odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation. Conditions include extreme heights; extreme noise levels; extreme heat and cold temperatures; wet and humid conditions; inadequate lighting; bright/dim lighting; workspace restricting movement; traffic; and moving machinery. Conditions include environmental hazards such as dangerous animals/wildlife, disease/pathogens, explosives, disruptive people, imminent danger, violence, and a threatening environment. These conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Due to the nature of work assignments, incumbents must be able to perform detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and under time constraint. The essential duties of this classification require the ability to regularly climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, feel, talk, hear, see, and perform repetitive motions. This job requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, sense of smell, depth perception, and texture perception. In terms of the physical strength to perform the essential duties, this classification is considered to be light work, exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.