Maintenance Worker - Kewanee

Responsibilities

• Maintains state highway systems, including filling roadway joints and cracks and patching potholes;
• Flagging and directing traffic;
• Setting up signs, cones, arrow boards, and other traffic control devices;
• Loading, unloading, spreading, and hauling materials and supplies;
• Cutting and clearing brush;
• Removing trash and debris from roadsides;
• Cleaning and clearing ditches.

Requirements

• Maintains state highway facilities, including repairing and replacing road signs and guardrails;
• Cleaning and clearing curbs and gutters;
• Painting buildings and equipment;
• Servicing equipment and machinery.

Skills

• Operates vehicles to transport employees, equipment, machinery and/or materials, or to warn oncoming traffic;
• Mows right of way using tractor mower and hand tools;
• Operates auger, trencher, backhoe, forklift, and various trucks (e.g., dump, aerial boom, bucket, and platform).

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package including a pension plan, paid leave and holidays, health insurance coverage, and educational assistance.

Pay

Temporary emergency operations adjustment of $3 to $6 per hour, depending on the area of operation, when handling winter/emergency operations activities.

Schedule

Job requires significant physical stamina and endurance, including the ability to move materials by hand, operate hand tools, and perform stationary flagging. Job requires outdoor work that involves exposure to physical hazards, health and safety risks, and/or adverse or otherwise undesirable characteristics in the environment, including risk of physical injury from carrying out duties in heavy traffic areas, on or near heavy equipment or machinery, and with hazardous chemicals or materials. Job may require overtime and nighttime work.