Highway Maintenance Worker IV - Crew Foreman (61033004)

Responsibilities

• Serves as crew foreman supervising personnel to perform various duties related to road maintenance.
• Supervises and inspects work such as patching, full depth repair, correcting drainage issues, laying pipe and paving driveways.
• Functions as a working supervisor and operates motorized equipment in a variety of maintenance activities, as needed and in the absence of regular equipment operators.
• Plans and schedules routine and preventive maintenance activities, investigates citizen work requests; prioritizes and schedules the necessary work.
• Devises a daily schedule for work to be performed by maintenance crew.
• Determines proper equipment, materials, and labor needed in order to complete tasks.
• Instructs personnel in the safe operation and maintenance of equipment and proper construction practices in maintaining roads and bridges.
• Performs inspections of the roads on the state highway system looking for deficiencies, entering them into the work request system.
• Instructs crew members in safety practices, completes job hazard assessment forms, mitigates risks, and conducts safety meetings prior to the commencement of work activities.
• Coordinates the placement of traffic control devices to properly set up a maintenance work zone according to current Agency guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Instructs crew members on practices such as flagging operations, wearing of safety equipment, vehicle safety, and job site hazards.
• Maintains accurate daily, weekly, and monthly reports and records of: personnel's working time, accomplishments, material usage, and equipment usage to input date into the Highway Maintenance Management System (HMMS); recommends personnel actions including promotions, transfers, and disciplinary measures; rates employees according to the Employee Performance Management System.
• Conducts safety inspection on assigned vehicles and equipment and instructs crew members on proper vehicle and equipment pre-trip requirements.
• Ensures employees within the crew(s) completes CDL pretrip inspections prior to operating a CDL vehicle and/or equipment.
• Manages assigned crew(s) in emergency or inclement weather operations; may include on-call personnel for extended working hours or 12-hour shifts.
• Employee takes scheduled on-call shifts, after hours, in a timely and safe manner.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Three and one-half (3.5) years of related work experience; or an approved acceptable equivalence.
• Valid motor vehicle operator’s license required.
• Attainment of a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) within six (6) months of placement in the position.
• Physical demands: bending, stooping, reaching, twisting, climbing, balancing, kneeling, pushing, pulling, grasping; ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to walk for extended periods, tread rough terrain, work in close proximity to motoring traffic, and in natural environmental hazards.
• May be required to work outside normal scheduled work week, especially during inclement weather.