General Laborer - Port of San Francisco (7514) - TPV
City and County of San Francisco · San Francisco, California, United States
Appointment Type: Temporary Provisional (TPV). This is not a permanent appointment. A provisional appointee must participate and be successful in a Civil Service examination for this classification and be selected through an open competitive process in order to be considered for permanent appointment. Provisional appointments may not exceed three (3) years.
Specific information regarding this recruitment is listed below:
- Application Opening: 10/30/2026
- Application Deadline: 11/20/2026
- Compensation Range: $78,962- 95,966 annually
- Recruitment ID: TPV-7514-165774 / RTF0165773-01113710
The Port of San Francisco is currently recruiting to fill multiple Temporary Provisional (TPV) vacancies in class 7514.
The Port of San Francisco is an enterprise agency of the City and County of San Francisco and is governed by a Commission of five members appointed by the Mayor. The Port Commission is responsible for overseeing a broad range of waterfront commercial, maritime, and public access facilities that are held in public trust for the people of California. The Port’s jurisdiction covers approximately 7.5 miles of waterfront land from Pier 98, near Hunter’s Point in the southern part of San Francisco, to Fisherman’s Wharf in the northern part of the City.
The Port’s diverse business portfolio includes over 550 ground, commercial, retail, office, industrial and maritime industrial leases including cargo shipping, layberthing, excursion boats, ferry boats, fishing and fish processing/distribution, tourism, filming, harbor services, and cruise operations. With some of the most flexible cargo handling facilities on the West Coast, as well as naturally deep water, the Port can handle various types of cargo such as, dry-bulk, neo-bulk, roll-on/roll-off, and project cargoes.
The Port of San Francisco has many internationally recognized landmarks such as Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, the Exploratorium, the Ferry Building and Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. With its unique and historic properties, the Port is home to a variety of tenants and uses. The Port Commission over the last five decades has led a remarkable transformation of the Port; maintaining its industrial maritime heritage while developing new uses, including commercial and public activities, that have helped San Francisco remain one of the most visited and popular cities on the globe.
For more information about the Port of San Francisco, visit SFPort.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Maintenance Division
The Maintenance Division is responsible for maintaining the Port's seven and one half miles of waterfront property and maintaining the waterfront as a positive connection to the other parts of the City.
More than 100 skilled craftspeople are responsible for the preservation and improvement of the Port's fishing harbors, ferry landings, public parks, cargo terminals, piers, promenades and buildings. The overall maintenance performed by the Maintenance Division includes the skilled work of carpenters, electricians, painters, gardeners, iron workers, pile drivers, plumbers, roofers, operating engineers, teamsters, welders, machinists, asphalt workers, sheet-metal workers, stationary engineers and general laborers.
General Laborer work requires the ability to lift objects weighing up to 90 pounds, carry them 50 feet and to balance 10-foot pieces of lumber; requires sustained physical effort, frequently under adverse weather conditions and/or disagreeable working conditions, such as working in streets or roads in traffic or in cold or rain or being exposed to feces and urine, raw sewage, used syringes, toxic and hazardous materials, poison oak, poisonous snakes, and insects; and confined space entry.
As a general laborer, your duties may include but are not limited to the following:
- Excavates trenches (using various pneumatic and hand tools, including 90-pound jackhammers) for water and sewer lines, underground utility repair, or electrical conduits; backfills and compacts excavations; and potholes transmission mains and service piping.
- Clears culverts, stakes fabric to prevent erosion of work sites, and cements and rip-raps upstream and downstream of culverts.
- Stabilizes embankments by building wet walls and drywalls alongside roadways and waterways.
- Clears obstacles prior to machine mowing.
- Serves as flag operator and sets up traffic barricades and lights or other barriers around work sites (on streets or in other locations).
- Clears and chips vegetation, brush, limbs; clears firebreaks, watershed roadways, ditches, jogging and foot paths, pipeline rights-of-way, around structures, buildings, risers, vaults, and valve lots; cuts access routes to watershed domestic utility lines and springs; removes small trees and grinds stumps.
- Installs and maintains chain link, barbed wire and hog wire fencing; cements watershed gate posts and chain link fence posts.
- Loads and unloads materials, supplies, furniture, and/or equipment by hand or with booms, power tailgate, forklift, and other moving equipment for moving to and from worksites (examples: jackhammers, sandbags, cement bags, debris bags, railroad ties, whackers, vibratory plates).
- Removes and cleans up debris resulting from construction, maintenance, wrecking, or repair work around grounds and building areas using hands, broom, shovel, wheelbarrow, etc.
- Works in confined spaces to assist in cleaning and flushing catch basins, septic tanks, or sewage treatment plants with shovels, hoses, and pumps to ensure proper drainage of the sewer system.
- Operates and maintains pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, and hand tools including air compressors, jack hammers, tie tampers, sand blasters, steam cleaners, hoists, drills, chain saws, cement mixers, chipping guns, weed whackers, spaders, stump grinders, fence stretchers, aerial lift buckets, and other hand tools to assist craft workers in getting their jobs done.
- Mixes and prepares concrete; assists in the application of concrete and asphalt to repair roads and sidewalks.
- Sweeps streets and sidewalks; applies disinfectants, de-greasers, and herbicides to streets and sidewalks; scrubs streets, sidewalks, and plazas with a broom or high-pressure water hose.
- Picks up litter and puts debris into bags; cleans up illegal dumping sites and encampments, spills on city streets, and sites of accidents; removes litter and signs from poles and benches.
- Manages a tool room, distributing tools and tracking inventory.
- Completes forms such as work orders, daily work, or field reports, and/or accident report forms.
- Drives a truck and/or car to work sites and follows route or other maps.
- Prepares surfaces for painting; remove graffiti from public/private property using a computerized color matching program, soda blaster, and/or steam cleaner.
- Uses radio communication system or other communication devices.
- Checks email and other forms of electronic communication to communicate, enters and submits time sheets online through the employee portal; reads and responds to emails and/or texts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Nature of the Work: Must be able to work from a boat, near water and at heights. Physical strength, endurance, and dexterity to perform tasks such as lifting and/or handling materials and objects weighing up to 90 pounds, carrying such materials at least 50 feet, balancing 10-foot long pieces of lumber; sustained physical effort, frequently under adverse weather conditions and/or disagreeable working conditions, such as working on roads or streets in traffic or in cold or rain or being exposed to feces and urine, raw sewage, used syringes, toxic and hazardous materials, poison oak, poisonous snakes, and insects; and confined space entry. Ability to wear a respirator.
This position is subject to shift bidding rules based on seniority which might require being assigned to a night, weekend schedule or alternative sched