Maintenance Worker - Roadside - Hannibal

About the role

The maintenance worker performs routine, entry-level duties related to the maintenance of the state's roadways and facilities. This position is eligible for a temporary emergency operations adjustment of $3 to $6 per hour, depending on the area of operation, when handling winter/emergency operations activities. MoDOT will bring candidates onto the team as entry-level, intermediate, or senior level, based on your skills and experience.

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.

Responsibilities

• Maintains, cleans, and repairs state highway facilities, including repairing and replacing road signs and guardrails;
• cleaning curbs and gutters;
• painting buildings and equipment;
• servicing equipment and machinery.

Responsibilities

• Operates vehicles to transport employees, equipment, machinery and/or materials, or to warn oncoming traffic, plow snow and spread ice control materials;
• 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).

Responsibilities

• May repair bridge decks (full and partial) and drains, and clean bridge bents/caps at heights on ladders or utilizing scaffolding.
• May install signs, including structural and large signs at overhead positions, inspect truss signs, pour concrete sign footings, weld and cut steel signposts, and repair and maintain break away and/or overlay signs.
• Operate side by side with mounted tank sprayers on rough terrain.
• Calibrate spray equipment to ensure accurate application and perform routine maintenance.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• A High School Diploma or GED/HiSET;
• A Valid Driver's License;
• A passing grade on the written portion of the commercial driver's license (CDL) exam is required prior to hire date. Must pass the driving portion of the CDL exam with tanker endorsement, no air brake restrictions (Class B), and interstate status (either Excepted Interstate [EI] or Non-Excepted Interstate [NI]) within 60 days after being hired into this position.
• Successful completion of a work simulation examination and a medical-physical examination.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications: None

Benefits

MoDOT offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Visit our CAREERS page to explore all we have to offer. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for MoDOT, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees.

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. Job may require operation of vehicles to plow snow and spread ice control materials.