Job Description

Salary: $18.28 - $20.31 Hourly
Location : Lincoln, NE
Job Type: Full time/probationary or status
Job Number: 202500760
Department: Transportation & Utilities Department
Division: StarTran
Opening Date: 12/22/2025
Closing Date: 1/4/2026 11:59 PM Central


Job Posting Information
Are you detail-oriented, dependable, and take pride in hands-on work? Join our team as a Bus Cleaner and play a vital role in keeping the interior and exterior surfaces of our buses and vans clean, safe, and welcoming for passengers and staff. You'll also be responsible for helping with scheduled garage and shop cleaning - including shelter cleaning and snow removal. This position is perfect for someone who enjoys physical work, follows procedures, and values teamwork and professionalism.
What You'll Do

Thoroughly Clean Vehicles

• Completely scrub and clean the entire interior of buses and vans.
• Perform occasional exterior cleaning, including engine compartments, wheels, door edges, radiators, heater cabinets, and other areas requiring manual cleaning.

Track & Document Cleaning

• Maintain accurate cleaning records by bus and date.

Maintain Work Areas

• Assist with scheduled garage and shop cleaning to keep workspaces clean and organized.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift at least 25 pounds
• Ability to move garage dumpsters weighing up to 200 pounds (on wheels)
• Ability to carry buckets weighing up to 25 pounds

Hours - 5 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday - Saturday
THIS SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITION IS SUBJECT TO MANDATORY DRUG TESTING POLICIES AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT.


Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from high school or equivalent
• Six months of experience in cleaning automotive equipment

Any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the desirable knowledge, abilities and skills may be considered.


Necessary Special Requirement

• Possession of a valid driver's license
• Possess and maintain proper Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and endorsement.

Commercial Learner's Permit required at start date. Training will be provided prior to testing for a Commercial Driver's License (CDL).
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StarTran is one of 11 divisions in the City of Lincoln Transportation and Utilities (LTU) Department. The LTU team provides transit, transportation and utilities services year-round to the citizens of Lincoln. Nearly 600 team members make up LTU. We fuel the importance of building relationships within our divisions and department and with our community partners. We value our team's forward-thinking attitude and pride ourselves on good stewardship of our environment. We celebrate our individual strengths that in turn take our teams to new levels of accomplishment. We commit ourselves to offering additional training opportunities and a variety of paths for professional job growth. Our teammates enjoy benefits that include, but are not limited to, a retirement match, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and health, dental, and vision plans. Join the largest department at the City of Lincoln today. We are excited to enhance our community's quality of life together.
We value each City of Lincoln employee and one way we demonstrate this is by providing an attractive and competitive total compensation package that adds value to our employees' professional and personal lives. The following benefits are available for this position:

• Pay increases are available upon completion of the 6-month new employee probationary period, and annually thereafter based on performance.

• We encourage a healthy work-life balance by offering 10 days of vacation leave and approximately 12 days of sick leave annually that you begin accruing upon hire; plus 8 paid holidays and 4 personal convenience days.

• All medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family begin the first of the month following hire, no need to wait!

• 30 days of Paid Parental Leave

• Employee Assistance Programs offering work/life services, wellness coaching, short-term counseling, legal assistance, and financial coaching.

• Up to 3 days of Funeral and Bereavement Leave

• $50,000 of Life Insurance.

• 401(a) Retirement Plan . If you make a 7% contribution, the City will contribute 9%

• Employer provided Post Employment Health Plan for eligible medical expenses that occur after you leave City employment.

• Optional benefits include:
  • Medical and/or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Allstate Voluntary Plans
  • Supplemental Term Life
  • Deferred Compensation Plans

01


APPLICATION COMPLETION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTTo successfully complete your application, please make sure you read each statement below and check ALL boxes prior to submission.

• 1. This application is hand scored.
• 2. ALL questions must be fully answered to receive full credit.
• 3. "See Resume", or answers such as "See ___" are not acceptable responses and will not receive full credit.
• 4. Copied/Pasted answers will not receive full credit.
• 5. ALL employers and education referred to in answers must be listed in the Work History and Education sections of the application for verification and to receive full credit.
• 6. I understand I am responsible for the accuracy and completeness of my application.
• I Acknowledge that I have read and understand each of the above statements.

02


This position involves:-lifting items and equipment weighing at least 25 pounds-moving garage dumpsters weighing up to 200 pounds (on wheels)-carrying buckets weighing up to 25 pounds

• Acknowledge

03


Do you have experience cleaning automotive equipment?

• No experience
• Yes, less than 6 months experience
• Yes, 6 months to 2 years experience
• Yes, 2 to 4 years experience
• Yes, more than 4 years experience

04


If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
05


If yes, please describe your work duties.
06


Do you have experience keeping routine records?

• Yes
• No

07


If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
08


If yes, please describe your work duties including types of records.
09


Do you have experience cleaning buses?

• Yes
• No

10


If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
11


If yes, please describe your work duties.
12


Do you have experience cleaning engine compartments of buses or automotive equipment?

• Yes
• No

13


If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
14


If yes, please describe your work duties.
15


Do you have experience driving vehicles larger than personal pleasure vehicles?

• Yes
• No

16


If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
17


If yes, please list the types of vehicles and describe your work duties.
18


I understand, as a condition of my employment for the position for which I am applying with the City of Lincoln/Lancaster County, that I must at all times be legally licensed to operate a motor vehicle. I understand state law requires operators possessing a driver's license from another state must obtain a valid Nebraska driver's license within 30 days of change of residence. Further, I understand that I must notify my immediate supervisor the next working day following a motor vehicle conviction which results in loss, revoked, impounded or suspension of my driver's license. Further, I understand that this document is an official City/County record, and that falsification of this document, or failure to properly notify the City/County of driving convictions or loss of driving privileges will result in discipline, up to and including termination. This applies any time driving privileges are revoked, suspended or limited in any way by any court or the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles or any other Administrative agency of the state of Nebraska or any other state jurisdiction. Do you have a valid driver's license?

• Yes
• No

19


For verification purposes please list your driver's license number and the state of issuance. (Note: a driver's license check will only be conducted on the top applicant.)
20


A. I understand that I will be required to obtain a valid Nebraska Commercial Driver's License with endorsements, if applicable, within 60 days of appointment or I will be terminated. Further, I understand that if my driving privileges and/or license is at any time suspended, revoked, impounded, or in any other way removed by the State of Nebraska, that I must, as a condition of future employment with the City/County, report that fact IMMEDIATELY to my supervisor. Forms are available in each department. Further, I understand that this document is an official City/County record, and that falsification of this document, or failure to report loss of driving privileges and/or license in the future is grounds for my being disciplined, if hired, or removed from the list of certified eligibles.

• Yes
• No

21


Do you have a valid commercial driver's license (C.D.L.)?

• Yes
• No

22


If yes, for verification purposes please list your driver's license number and the state of issuance.
23


Endorsements: (Check all that apply)

• Passenger Transport
• Air Brakes
• Combination Vehicles
• Tanker
• None

24


I understand that in accordance with Federal Transit Administration and Department of Transportation Regulations, each individual conditionally hired for a safety sensitive position is subject to mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Any applicant who refuses or fails to execute the City/County's general consent and release form to be drug and alcohol tested, who refuses or fails to execute the City/County's authorization to obtain past drug and alcohol test results forms, who refuses or fails to submit to a pre-employment/pre-duty drug and alcohol test as directed, or whose result is positive for either test, will not be considered eligible to work for the City/County. Existing workers who test positive will not be considered qualified for the position for which they are applying and will also be subject to the City/County discipline, up to and including discharge. All pre-employment job applicants covered by this policy who test positive will not be hired.

• Yes
• No

25


I understand that any applicant has the right to have their original split sample retested (by a DHHS certified laboratory, the original laboratory will follow approved transfer procedures) at their expense, if requested in writing to the City/County Human Resources Director within 72 hours of the final result provided by the Medical Review Officer. If upon retest the results are found to be negative, the City/County will reimburse the costs involved with the retest. (If the second test is found to be positive, the applicant will not be hired, and the cost of the retest will not be reimbursed.) Current employees transferring, promoting or demoting into a position requiring drug testing who test positive have the right to have their sample retested (by a DHHS certified laboratory, the original laboratory will follow approved transfer procedures) at their expense, if requested in writing to the City/County Human Resources Director within 72 hours of the final result provided by the MRO. If upon retest the results are found to be negative, the City/County will reimburse the costs involved with the retest. If the results of the retest, are positive, the cost will not be reimbursed.

• Yes
• No

26


I understand, if hired to a safety sensitive position, I am subject to Random, Post Accident, Reasonable/Suspicion, Return to Duty and Follow-Up drug and alcohol testing. Failure to comply with federal mandates and City/County Policy could result in discipline up to and including termination.

• Yes
• No

27


Have you previously failed or refused a Department of Transportation drug or alcohol test within the previous two years?

• Yes
• No

Required Question

Job Tags

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