Highway Maintenance Worker with Snow & Ice - Transportation Generalist - Buffalo and Clearwater

About the role

This position plays a crucial role in maintaining roadways, roadside areas, and ensuring safe travel conditions during all weather and seasonal conditions. The primary responsibilities include snow and ice control, road surface maintenance, and roadside maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and reconstructs roadways, rights-of-way, roadway shoulders with gravel, bituminous, and concrete road surfaces;
• Maintains traffic barriers;
• Participates in bituminous road repair, culvert cleaning, and guardrail repair;
• Maintains roadsides;
• Installs catch basins, places and removes Adopt-A-Highway bags, performs drainage and shoulder repair;
• Performs preventive maintenance on highway equipment and operates all tractor mowers and small rollers for the purpose of maintaining roadways;
• Performs traffic control set-ups in high volume traffic and ensures they are in accordance with the provisions of the Temporary Traffic Zone Layouts field manual, to ensure the safety of the employees and the traveling public;
• Performs landscaping duties, including maintenance of trees, grass, shrubs, brush, etc. on roadside—planting, watering, seeding, sodding, trimming and removal. Includes chipping of tree limbs, stump removal/grinding.

Requirements

• One (1) year of experience performing activities in snow and ice, soils, road surface maintenance, roadside maintenance, bridge maintenance, signs, or related activities (roadway maintenance, driving commercial vehicles, commercial landscaping, operating heavy equipment, or farm experience).
• Successful completion of a Heavy Equipment Operation and Maintenance Program (of at least 60 semester credits; or 90 quarter credits) will substitute for one year of experience.
• Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with no air brake restriction and tanker endorsement.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of English sufficient to read, write, speak, and understand oral and written information; communicate with employees and the general public in-person or via two-way radio and other electronic devices; and to maintain routine written logs and simple records.

Skills

Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team are essential. Proficiency with heavy equipment operation and maintenance is also required.

Benefits

The position offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental and vision coverage, retirement plans, and paid time off. Additionally, there are opportunities for professional development and training.

Pay

$25.19 - $31.60 / hourly; $52,596 - $65,980 / annually

Schedule

Full-time year-round position with seasonal schedules (summer hours & winter hours). Hours may include overtime or various shifts depending on emergency situations.