Highway Maintenance Tech I, II or III - Sweetwater, TX

About the role

The role involves performing routine transportation operations or maintenance support work such as roadway maintenance and repair; light and heavy equipment operation; preventive and minor maintenance on equipment; traffic control; and helping the public during emergency situations.

Responsibilities

• Assists in identifying, repairing and installing signs, delineators, mailbox supports and posts;
• Performs basic welding as needed;
• Uses/moves equipment/tools, materials and products related to these activities;
• Provides support to local law enforcement officials at accident sites;
• Assists stranded motorists as required;
• Assists with traffic control;
• Places and gathers cones, warning signs and barricades;
• Flags traffic;
• Determines placement of traffic control devices and installs/moves devices;
• Inspects barricades to ensure compliance with barricade standards;
• Maintains highways and rights-of-way;
• Performs roadway repairs;
• Erects and repairs guard rails, highway markers and signs;
• Hauls materials and equipment to job sites;
• Maintains picnic and rest areas, rights-of-way, maintenance yards and comfort stations;
• Move/picks up litter and roadway debris;
• Mows rights-of-way and picnic and rest areas;
• Performs plant and landscape maintenance including trimming trees and brush;
• Operates complex heavy equipment such as a motor grader, large excavator, heavy bulldozer, crane, herbicide truck, heavy asphalt paving machine, self-propelled asphalt distributor, and profiling/milling machine;
• Operates heavy equipment such as a front-end loader one and a half cubic yards or more, tractor-trailer haul truck, large dragline, shovel, paint striper, and dump truck;
• Operates light equipment such as a front-end loader-one and a quarter cubic yard or less, pneumatic roller, rotary broom, spreader box, backhoe, street sweeper, and mower;
• Performs preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), routine servicing and minor repairs on equipment and completes various required reports including timekeeping, equipment forms, inventory, accident forms, and PMI;
• Maintains construction project records and processes related paperwork;
• Sands or cleans bridges and roads, posts warning signs, helps the public and performs other work as directed during emergency situations such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents, and hazardous material spills;
• Assists with inspecting maintenance contract construction methods and workmanship to ensure contractors build and maintain roadways, bridges, traffic signals and related highway structures in accordance with plans and specifications.

Requirements

• Education: No education required.
• Experience:
  • TMT I: No experience required;
  • TMT II: 1 year experience;
  • TMT III: 2 years experience.
• Licenses and Certifications:
  • Commercial Class "A" Driver License (CDL) with an N Endorsement, and with no restrictions at time of application - This position requires driving a state vehicle.

Qualifications

• Related technical training or education from an accredited institution may be substituted for experience on a year per year basis.
• Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications.
• Licenses and Certifications: Commercial Driver’s License.

Skills

• Some Skill in: Using computers and applicable programs, applications, and systems;
• Using applicable hand and power tools, equipment, and mechanical devices of the trade;
• Operating light and heavy highway equipment;
• Maintaining a safe and effective working relationship with others.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.