Road Maintenance and Landfill Equipment Operator (Globe/Roads)

Time Spent

• Operates road construction and maintenance equipment including front end loaders, backhoes, bulldozers, motor graders, paving machines, street sweepers, transfer trucks and compactors, in accordance with all safety regulations and procedures; and landfill equipment, water truck for dust control, compactor, scraper, bulldozer, and loader for piling solid waste and maintain lifts as required.
• Ensures compliance with safety and environmental regulations applicable to solid waste disposal.

Responsibilities

• Grades roads, paves roads, replace asphalt, patches and repairs roads, clean roadways and sweeps streets.
• Maintains ditches and culverts including removing debris from ditches, installing culverts and ensuring the efficient flow of culverts.
• Moves dirt at landfill operations according to precise regulations.
• Coordinates Department of Corrections inmate work detail.
• Performs manual labor assignments as needed, including fire control, accident and hazardous materials cleanup, guardrail and foliage maintenance and debris removal; cuts and removes brush and trees impacting roadways as required; assists landfill customers to unload refuse safely, and separates recyclable products at the landfill.
• Follows safety regulations on all work zone and flagging sites, including placing barricades and cones; landfill liner leakage testing, waste oil barrel cleaning, freon removal from appliances, recycle battery storage and waste tire program; performs emergency road services in relation to fires, floods and roadway inspection.
• Hauls materials and transports vehicles and equipment to jobsites using various trucks and transporters.
• Inspects, cleans and performs routine operational check on trucks and heavy equipment. Reports necessary repairs.
• Performs traffic control activities including setting up signs and flagging traffic; directing traffic at landfill.
• May perform emergency road services in relation to snow removal, flood damage repair, rockslides, and fires.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education/Directly Related Experience Required: High School Diploma or GED. Two (2) years’ experience in road construction and maintenance and operation of related equipment; or two (2) years’ experience in landfill operations; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Professional Credentials Required: Must possess and maintain a valid Driver’s License. Within three (3) months of employment, the written portion of the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) testing must be completed. By the end of nine (9) months, a valid Arizona Class A CDL must be obtained.

Skills

• Semi-skilled road construction and maintenance activities and operating heavy equipment, machinery and vehicles.
• Critical thinking; problem solving; analyzing operations; troubleshooting and time management.

Physical Demands

• Occasionally stands to direct traffic, to complete tasks and to attend to reported incidents.
• Regularly sits to complete reports, routinely sits to operate special equipment.
• May be required to lift work related materials, equipment, and tools of more than 75 lbs. in weight.
• Routinely walks to and from work sites, occasionally bends, stoops, crawls, kneels and routinely twists.

Work Environment

• Incumbents in this position constantly perform work at external construction areas: new and maintained County roads, easements, water ways and County landfills.

Safety Risk Exposure

• Verbal abuse by customers, or citizens; individuals with high level of emotional distress; physical danger, mechanical hazards, chemical hazards; electrical hazards; bloodborne pathogens and communicable diseases; fire hazards; explosives, respiratory hazards; extreme temperature; noise and vibration; and wetness and humidity.

Protective Gear & Safety Manuals

• Incumbents in this position are required to constantly follow written safety procedures and manuals relevant to the division or department; constantly requires safety foot wear, hearing protection devices, eye protection devices and hard hat.

Consequences of Error

Potential errors can result in unfavorable public perceptions and legal ramifications. To learn more details, visit our benefits page.