Public Works Employer Reviews

Daily manual labor. Clean up city streets and parks. Help with water services. Management was good to work with. Co-workers were great to work with and made the job a lot more enjoyable.

I have enjoyed my time here at the Village in the public works department. i believe it is now time to move on and obtain more responsibility

Busy, fast paced job, but i had fun talking to the customers and co workers.

learn something new about city utility operations every day

Developing s strategic plan for the Transportation Department of L.A. and publicizing it's efforts to better the streets of Downtown L.A.

I get my work area get in my truck and pick up some blacktop the get to work. I learned how to lay blacktop and a lot of other community work. My co-workers were fun. The harest part was working in the heat with hot blacktop. The most enjoyable part was feeling like I was apart of something.

My typical day at Public Works would be entering employee leave and overtime into the Oracle database, handling personnel issues, putting new hire or discipline information into the Oracle database, supervising five (5) full time Administrative Assistants, occasionally answering telephones and helping citizens. Data entry of time cards for the Survey – more... division into MS Access database.

The most enjoyable part of my job is coming to work. I love the environment meaning management are easy to work for and everyone seems to all have a common goal. Being able to learn various things from the executives increases my knowledge everyday. – less

I swept the streets for the g.a. workfare program. I miss my old crew! The schedule was twice a week/2 hours a day. The gave us lunch at the end of the shift.

This was for the City of Southlake see review. Filled in for Administrative Secretary.

The part of my job I loved the most was problem solving. I also enjoyed the customer service aspect of the job. Problem solving and customer service go hand in hand.

I enjoy working with in the public field, it is a constantly ever changing arena, with opportunities for advancements. I look forward to returning to public works if granted the opportunity.

Troubleshooting Technical Support, Setup and Maintain User Access to systems and applications, Desktop Support and application support, Trouble shooting and problem diagnoses, Desktop operating systems, LAN support, Helpdesk support and Network printing support, End user support, Repairing Computer, Networking setup and configuration, Back-up the information, – more... hardware selling, Printer Installation and Driver’s Installation, Installation Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista. Using a range of office software, including email, spreadsheets and databases, Managing filing systems, Relief switchboard, developing and implementing new administrative systems and End User Computer Lecturing, Using a range of office software, including email, spreadsheets and databases, Relief switchboard, and Managing filing systems. – less

work day consist of taking care of children and planning and organizing their day

Always liked to get to work early, to start day with new tasks and decisions to make, was a change in the way the private sector works in comparsiom to goverment departments. great interesting lesson learned.

Submission of leave application forms weekly on time.
Assess subordinates every six months for performance bonus.
Supervising staff daily
Submitt monthly reports

working according to self pre-planned schedule
to accomodate diversty
to quality
cordial and supportive and willing to accommodate differnt views
frustration on turnaround time due to delayed response various operationa levels

Supervisor of: Auxiliry/Logistics, Transport, HR/General Office support services
Work well with people from all walks of life
Contineous learning period, not one day is the same as the other
Most enjoyable areas: Customer service, seeing the benifts thereof.

every monday
checking of date & stamp when booking payments
management is fine they are free to assist me
co-workers are very friends & loyal
when calculating Vat & interest and capturing payments to microsolf Excel...
we have sport at work & no pressure to my work

First thing I do when I get to my office, I open my diary to check what is expected of me on that particular, whereby I make follow-ups with relevent Project Manager from different Regions, then collect as much given information as I can.

I have learnt to be polite and always practice the "Batho Pele" principles, this helps to work productively and – more... living clients happy.
When it comes to management, my log-book and diary acts as my bibble where I should live by it since it contains more information regarding projects which falls whithin my responsibility line.

Co-workers come in different shapes and size, so I don't use the "one size fit all" approach when dealing with them, but always try to accommodate them as their all different.

The hardest part about my work is that I work long hours without noticing it and my boss will make jokes about me saying that I am the most paid guy becaues of my over-time benefits that I get almost evry month.

The most enjoyable part is when we sit in a meeting, braining-stormong about how to solve a particular problem, here it's a place where there is no wrong or right answer, but we are all there with one common goal, which is to come up with a solution. – less

So far its reasonably alot, but then one learns new work after a long period of time, mostly its routine work, I recently attended PERSAL Courses which is quite interesting.

Management is acceptable

Nothing is Hard for me, i enjoy having lots to do and working under pressure at times,keeps me motivated

I enjoy doing Verifications letters with Security – more... and SAQA, Interviews(Sorting and Capturing of application forms) and Appoinments letters,Regret letters – less