Mark Sostar

• Oversaw a staff of 25+
• Coordinated facility maintenance for all Township buildings
• Responsible for Township parks, roadside maintenance
• Planned future road work and facility maintenance
•Met with contractors to obtain estimates and timelines/schedules of maintenance

• Procured equipment
• Displayed an understanding of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe
• Involvement of personnel matters such as hiring, promotions, and termination of employees
•Collaborated in a collective bargaining agreement

• Maintained municipal roads, stormwater and sewer
• Coordinated organizations, utilities companies, and environmental
agencies to address complex issues affecting public works operations
• Streamlined project management processes and implemented cost-
saving measures to enhanced public works efficiency
• Secured grants for equipment purchases, reports for the grant term
• Initiated the GIS system for the Borough
• Tracked maintenance of all Borough vehicles, including police and
code vehicles
• Trained personnel in equipment maintenance and enforced
participation in exercises focused on developing key skills
• Managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity
and profitability
• Began Borough's pesticide program with a pesticide license
• Timely completed infrastructure projects and within budget by
allocating resources and coordinating team efforts

Trained employees in time management and proper ways to complete job
duties
• Discussed daily work requirements with crew and assigned skills-based
tasks to enable completion of work
• Trained employees for CDL with a 100% success rate on first test
• Demolition of vacant city owned houses
• Paved, compacted and sealed roadways
• Assisted in digging, trenching and backfilling trenches and foundations.
• Coordinated pickup and delivery of dumpsters

• Completed cold patching and hot mix asphalt patching
• Snow plowing/salting
• Performed lawncare maintenance in Township right-of-ways
• Clearing storm water inlets
• Maintained Township vehicles
• Operated backhoes and front loaders
• Building maintenance

• Verified safe and consistent operations by conducting DOT pre-trip
inspections according to established criteria
• Aided with new driver development
• Dealt with angry customers
• Pick-up and Delivery of goods in a time sensitive operation
• Hauled double trailers
• Operated a forklift; dock loading and unloading freight when short staffed.