Highway Maintenance Person

General Summary

Under direction, assists with road maintenance projects; performs manual labor including patching holes, flagging traffic, loading materials, filling pavement joints, chipping concrete, sweeping, digging, cutting trees, brushing, and bridge planks; operates heavy equipment, installs road signs and guardrails.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Performs manual labor to assist in completing road maintenance projects.
• Operates various pieces of maintenance equipment including but not limited to riding mowers, grass whips, power tools, heavy and light duty trucks, backhoes, loaders, jack hammers, and chain saws.
• Completes roadside landscaping maintenance, such as cutting grass, clearing weeds and brush, and trimming trees.
• Prepares work areas by setting out signs, cones and flags to divert traffic.
• Directs motorist traffic through areas undergoing road construction or road maintenance.
• Cleans, repairs and performs preventative maintenance to assigned vehicle or equipment.
• Assists in performing minor building maintenance tasks at assigned Service Center.

Qualifications

• Required Education and Experience: Possession of a high school diploma or a certificate of successful completion of the General Educational Development Test (GED).
• Preferred Education And Experience: A minimum of one (1) year of road construction or road maintenance experience.

Knowledge

• How to operate heavy equipment such as a bucket truck, front loader and patch truck.
• Materials needed to complete assignments.
• Safety regulations.
• Flagging rules and regulations when setting up signs and flags to divert traffic through a construction site.
• Skill In Operating a snowplow truck with an underbody blade, front plow and salt spreader.
• Reading maps and utilizing a Global Positioning System (GPS).
• Interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain effective and appropriate working relationships.

Competencies

• Vehicle loading safety and material handling, tie down and securing procedures.
• Prioritizing and reviewing work assignments.
• Document and maintain information such as daily work reports and equipment inspections.
• Effectively speak, write and understand the English language.
• Speak and understand a language other than English, is preferred.

Work Environment/Conditions

• Office or similar indoor environment: N/S
• Outdoor environment: F/C
• Street environment (near moving traffic): F/C
• Construction site: F/C
• Confined space: O
• Individuals who are hostile or irate: O
• Individuals with known violent backgrounds: N/S
• Extreme cold (below 32 degrees): F/C
• Extreme heat (above 100 degrees): F/C
• Communicable diseases: N/S
• Moving mechanical parts: F/C
• Fumes or airborne particles: F/C
• Toxic or caustic chemicals, substances, or waste: O
• Loud noises (85+ decibels): F/C
• Blood Borne Pathogens: N/S

Physical Demands

• Balancing on even or uneven surfaces/ground: O
• Bending (forward or backward bending at the waist): F/C
• Climbing up or down stairs, ladders, scaffolding and platforms: N/S
• Crawling (moving about on hands and knees). Inspecting in confined spaces: N/S
• Digging: O
• Driving on sealed and unsealed roads: F/C
• Grasping, gripping, holding, clasping with fingers or hands: F/C
• Kneeling to work at low levels: O
• Manual Dexterity (fine finger movements i.e., keyboard operating, writing): F/C
• Lift/Carry/Move objects from one level/position to another (covered by the items below): Up to 75 pounds: F/C Over 100 pounds: O
• Push/Pull objects away from or towards the body: F/C
• Reaching overhead (arms raised above the shoulder) or forward reaching (arms extended): F/C
• Sitting in a seated position during the task performance: F/C
• Standing in an upright position without movement: F/C
• Walking considerable distances in the facility on multiple surfaces: F/C
• Running considerable distances in the facility on multiple surfaces: N/S

General Requirements And Disclaimers

• Complies with P.A. 390, as amended, known as the State’s Emergency Management Act and the County’s Emergency Management resolution as well as all related plans, policies and procedures covered by those statutes.