3. The duties of a Public Cleansing Officer in the Cleansing and Maintenance Division include:

1. Ensuring the efficient delivery of public cleansing services provided by the Cleansing and Maintenance Division in urban roads and rural areas;

2. Assuming responsibility for the direction and control of the workforce under his charge engaged on work within the various sections of the Cleansing and Maintenance Division, such as upkeep of public conveniences, the collection of bulky waste from households and cleansing works;

3. Ensuring the proper utilization of human resources, plant equipment, materials and stores;

4. Providing assistance to the Principal Public Cleansing Officers and other superior officers of the Cleansing and Maintenance Division regarding managerial efficiency direction and control;

5. Contributing to the co-ordination of efforts between the Division, other departments and other entities in the sphere of works and services required for the keeping of public areas clean and free from litter and other waste;

6. Assigning jobs and formulating daily reports regarding the allocation of staff and the issue of material throughout the approved programme of works entrusted to him/her;

7. Monitoring progress and reporting on any problem areas;

8. Conducting site visits to monitor the productivity and efficiency of the workforce and comparing results with forecasts and estimates;

1. Ensuring and enforcing conduct, discipline, punctuality, health and safety and welfare of workforce;

10. Assisting the Director General, Directors and Assistant Directors and other superior officers in the processing of disciplinary reports and procedures and maintaining good public relations;

11. Any other duties according to the exigencies of the Public Service as directed by the Principal Permanent Secretary.

4.1. By the closing time and date of this call for applications, applicants must be Public Officers in the Malta Public Service or Public Officers in the Malta Public Service on loan/detailed with/deployed with/on attachment to Public Sector organizations who are in the grade of  Senior Public Cleansing Foreman and  whose appointment in such grade  has been confirmed. Public officers applying for a higher post must be confirmed in their current (or previous) appointment (as the case may be).

4.2.  Public Officers holding a grade in a particular stream, and who were granted Officer in Scale status by virtue of a Grievances Unit decision in the same scale as that of a higher grade in that stream, are eligible to apply for grades open to officers holding such higher grade within the stream that carries the same scale as that of the Officer in Scale status.

The years of service since the effective date of appointment as Officer in Scale are reckonable for the purpose of satisfying any requisite years of service stipulated in calls for applications.

Any other eligibility requisites for the post must be met in terms of this call for applications.

4.3  Applicants must be eligible to take up their due appointment, in terms of 4.1 to 4.2 above, not only by the closing time and date of this call for applications but also on the date of appointment.