Document Services Clerk Messenger
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Salary
$18.69 – $22.37 Hourly
Location
295 Church St SE Salem, OR
Job Type
Fulltime-Career
Job Number
24-0040-01
Department
Information Technology Dept
Org
IT Document Svcs
Opening Date
04/22/2024
Closing Date
5/6/2024 11:59 PM Pacific
Job Summary
Make an impact:
The City of Salem is seeking a highly motivated Document Services Clerk-Messenger to join our dynamic Document Services team. As a Document Services Clerk-Messenger you will be an essential employee for the City of Salem, ensuring the continuous flow of information, mail, packages, records, and supply materials throughout the City. If you have a passion for assisting the Salem community and want to make an impact by helping others and keeping the City moving, then this is the job for you! Due to the responsibilities of this position, requiring pick up and deliver of material services, this is an in-person only position.
Learn and grow:
We are committed to growing the capabilities of our people. We encourage routine work schedules and a positive work environment. Be part of an organization that provides professional growth, a friendly, productive work environment, and a great work-life balance.
What you will do:
The Document Services Clerk-Messenger is part of a team that helps the City business moving smoothly as we work to serve the community. You will be the primary resource sorting and delivering mail, processing outgoing packages for shipping, delivering incoming packages, and transporting mail and supplies amongst all City of Salem work locations.
This position will run the City’s mailing equipment to include Pitney Bowes mail inserter, meter machine, and high-speed envelope printer. You will image documents of all sizes using a Fujitsu 7700 high speed document scanner to digitize paper records, and an Epson wide format document scanner. In addition, you will operate a Laserfiche document scanner, a ScanPro3000 to digitize microfilm, microfiche, and aperture cards. If you want to become an integral part of the City’s daily business operations that provide services to over 1000 City employees, its departments, and our local community, we encourage you to apply.
Additional information on job responsibilities:
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Communications: Provide customer service to departments or the public, including answering telephone calls. - Conduct/Perform: Drive a city van to pick up the City’s incoming mail from the Post Office, sort and deliver the mail. Prepare the City’s outgoing mail, addressing, inserting, sealing, metering the mail, and delivery it to the Post Office. Perform numerous stops daily and remain on schedule.
- Physical Requirements: Activity involving exertion, including lift up to 75 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 50 pounds frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds constantly to move objects with or without accommodation. Work environment will include inside conditions, outdoor weather conditions, and extreme temperatures.
- Operate: Run ACCUZIP mailing software to prepare mailing lists and produce large volume mailings. Printing 150,000+ envelopes a month.
- Perform other essential duties as assigned.
What can we offer you for all your hard work?
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
- Paid vacation and sick time in accordance with City policies.
- Competitive pay.
- Employer-paid PERS contribution of 6%.
- Opportunity for voluntary pre-tax contributions to a 457b account.
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Voluntary long-term care.
- Employee wellness program.
- Employee assistance program.
- Employee health clinic.
- Position schedule is Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Must pass the pre-employment background check.
- Must have an Oregon Driver license and meet the City of Salems driving standards.
- High school graduate or GED, supplemented by courses in commercial subjects, and one (1) year of clerical experience, preferably in a mail room and courier services operations and/or some experience in a print shop environment, or any combination of experience and training that demonstrate possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities as listed, and ability to perform the essential job functions.
- Hiring managers do not have access to view resumes as part of the application review process, please make sure to give detailed information in your application that includes your experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as requested in the supplemental questions and job advertisement.
What you will bring along:
- Organizational, prioritizing, and completing all assignments while working independently.
- Attention to detail and stay on task at a sustained rate.
- Ability to multitask when managing projects with multiple departments.
- Respect, seek to understand, and value individual differences to foster and support a diverse and inclusive team-oriented workplace.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
About us:
The City of Salem is the second largest City in the State of Oregon. Located in the lush Willamette Valley, Salem is the capital city of Oregon with a population over 180,000. Centrally located, Salem is 47 miles south of Portland and an hour from the Cascade Mountains to the east and an hour from the ocean beaches to the west. Salem is an exceptional community for living and working with exciting new and comfortable well-established neighborhoods and carefully preserved historic buildings.
A full-service City, Salem has eight primary departments:
Community Services, Finance, Fire, Enterprise Services, Legal, Police, Public Works, and Community Planning and Development Department. Several departments also have functional divisions within their department. The city has five labor unions and employs roughly 1,350 talented and dedicated staff members. The Urban Renewal Agency and the Salem Housing Authority are separate municipal corporations. The Agency contracts with the City for services and the Authority is led by the Housing Administrator within the Urban Development department.
Where can I find out more about the position?
How can I apply?
The City of Salem invites individuals of all diverse communities and backgrounds to apply for our available job opportunities as we strive to provide the best service to everyone. The City of Salem is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all and has a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that by welcoming differences, encouraging new ideas and views, listening to, and learning from each other, we are better able to serve the community.
Applicants that meet the minimum qualifications as outlined above but not selected for this position may be placed on an eligibility list, and candidates may be hired from the list. Eligibility lists are valid for six months. The City will send email notifications to eligible candidates about potential hiring opportunities so please ensure your email settings accept our system generated email notifications.
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For benefits information, please, go to:
https://www.cityofsalem.net/government/jobs/employment-information/afscme-general-service-employee-benefits
