Mail Clerk

Job Summary

Provide assistance to the City's Water Utility department by assisting with mailing operations, sorting water bills, running inserts and bills through a postage machine, metering the bills through the postage machine, taking mail to the post office, sorting mail from the post office, bagging mail, driving to deliver mail to city departments and distributing interoffice mail.

Essential Job Functions

Provides customer service support by meeting and greeting visitors; answering phones; completing monthly visitor reports; restocking brochures and filling in as needed upon the absence of others.

Maintains mailing operations by sorting water bills; running inserts and bills through a postage machine; metering the bills through the postage machine; taking them to the post office; sorting mail from the post office; bagging mail; driving to deliver mail to city departments and distributing interoffice mail.

Ensures proper functioning of equipment and necessary supply levels by maintaining postage machines; ordering supplies and making sure that proper service is performed on the machines.

Ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.

Ability to perform the four basic arithmetic operations. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in elementary school up to high school. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.

Ability to write simple sentences containing subject, verb, and object, and / or series of numbers, names, and addresses. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in elementary school up to high school. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.

The employee normally performs the duty assignment after receiving detailed instructions as to methods, procedures, and desired end results with little room for deviation. Close and constant review is given.

Work requires functioning as a lead worker performing essentially the same work as those directed, and includes overseeing work quality, training, instructing, and scheduling work.

Normal tasks require use of definite procedures, with little deviation. Work requires little or no analysis or judgment.

Minimum Qualifications

A high school diploma or GED required. A valid Texas Class C driver's license and excellent driving record required. A minimum of one year successful, uninterrupted work experience preferred. Ability to lift, push, pull or carry 50-75 pounds. This position requires the individual to be able to work independently with a high level of integrity. Must be able to work outside in ALL weather conditions to pick-up and deliver mail to other city offices and the post office. This is a PART-TIME position working up to 19 hours.