PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER G113 PT
Salary
$16.07 Hourly
Location
Metra Transit, 814 Linwood Blvd, Columbus, GA
Job Type
Part-Time
Job Number
2026-00000382
Department
Transportation
Division
Parking Management
Opening Date
07/08/2026
Closing Date
8/8/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
- Description
- Benefits
- Questions
Major Duties and Responsibilities
This position is responsible for issuing citations for parking violations.
- Issues parking citations; explains violations to citizens as needed; delivers court summons for parking violators to appear in court for resolution; handles contracts for customers leasing parking spaces in the RiverCenter garage.
- Performs the duties of the supervisor in his or her absence.
- Maintains knowledge of all city ordinances pertaining to non-moving vehicle violations.
- Repairs gate as needed and; troubleshoot equipment failure.
- Performs daily inspections of parking garages to determine property damage, needed repairs, and vehicle damage; reports needed repairs for city vehicles; monitors surveillance cameras for city owned garages and parking lots.
- Boots vehicles with unpaid citations; records information on booted vehicles.
- Pulls revenue and tokens from units; counts money and tokens; cleans revenue units and gate boxes periodically.
- Directs traffic flow at garages during special events.
- Prepares incident and accident reports as needed.
- Responds to irate citizens, answers parking questions and listens to citizen complaints and concerns.
- Reports abandoned vehicles in garage or parking lot.
- Provides transportation to Homeland Security support in the event of an emergency (Small Bus Only).
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of city parking ordinances and violations.
- Knowledge of basic mathematics.
- Knowledge of problem solving and conflict resolution techniques.
- Skill in interpersonal relations.
- Skill in the operation of computers, handheld devices, and various software programs.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
- Ability to read, write, and perform mathematical calculations.
Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education.Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid drivers license issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.
Physical Requirements
The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee occasionally lifts light objects and distinguishes between shades of color. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing - maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Crouching - bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Grasping - applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling - picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 - perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 - receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling - bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity - ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Reaching - extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking - expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Standing - for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping - bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
The work is typically performed in an office, library, computer room, or outdoors where the employee may be exposed to dust, dirt, grease, and cold or inclement weather.
There are no benefits associated with this position.
01
Which best describes your level of education? (You will be asked to provide documentation)
- No High School Diploma
- GED
- High School Diploma
- Technical College
- Some College
- Associates Degree
- Bachelors Degree
- Masters Degree
- Doctorates Degree
02
Do you possess a valid drivers license?
03
If yes, did you take a pre-employment drug or alcohol test and was not hired?
04
If yes, did you test positive, or refuse to take the pre-employment drug or alcohol test?
05
If you answered, "yes" to the question above, please explain. If you answered, "no" just type in n/a.
06
If you answered, "yes" to the question above, please explain. If you answered, "no" just type in n/a.
07
Do you have any work experience in the operation of computers, handheld devices, and various software programs?
08
If yes, did you test positive, or refuse to take the pre-employment drug or alcohol test? Yes
09
Do you have any work experience with city parking ordinances and violations?
Required Question
Employer Columbus Consolidated Government
Address City Hall
1111 1st Avenue
Columbus, Georgia, 31901
Phone 706-225-4059
Website http://www.columbusga.gov/HR