Highway Maintenance Technician-WV Parkways Authority-See Posting

Nature of Work

HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN-WV PARKWAYS AUTHORITY

Location of positions:

Beckley, WV (Raleigh Co.)

One position at Standard, WV (Kanawha Co.)

Two positions at Ghent, WV (Raleigh Co.)

Hourly Wage and eligible for Overtime

SALARY: $17.4880 - 25.3530, based on experience

• Guide and direct employees at apprentice level.
• Performs unskilled to semi-skilled work in the construction and maintenance of highways, bridges and structures.
• Performs pothole patching tasks such as jack hammering, removing old concrete or asphalt, shoveling, raking, and compacting asphalt, and site clean-up.
• Performs snowplowing and salting
• Performs any required task assigned by crew leader/foreman/supervisor on asphalt, bridge, general purpose and other crews.
• Use of sectional highway maintenance equipment to repair, replace concrete and road surfaces, cleans culverts and repairs shoulders
• Flags traffic at construction sites
• Picks up trash, debris and empty trash barrels
• Digs holes, trenches, and cleans culverts
• Operate highway equipment for maintenance work
• Load and unload truck.
• Cut grass
• Loads and unloads equipment
• Checks equipment to determine operational readiness
• Seals joints and cracks on highways
• Uses a variety of manual and power tools such as shovel, back-fill tamper & hand roller in the maintenance and repair of highway
• May be required to operate other related highway maintenance equipment as training permits
• Other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or GED
• Must be able to pass background check
• Must have Class B CDLs
• Highway Maintenance experience desired
• Job not in the classified service. See the hiring agency for a description of benefits.