Parking Enforcement Workers

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

• Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.
• Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.
• Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.
• Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.
• Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.
• Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations.
• Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.
• Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.
• Provide information to the public regarding parking regulations and facilities, and the location of streets, buildings and points of interest.
• Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles.
• Observe and report hazardous conditions, such as missing traffic signals or signs, and street markings that need to be repainted.
• Perform simple vehicle maintenance procedures, such as checking oil and gas, and report mechanical problems to supervisors.