Streets Operator

Join the City of Durango’s Streets Team and contribute to the infrastructure that keeps our community running smoothly. As a Streets Operator, you’ll operate light to heavy equipment to support essential maintenance activities such as street repair, landscaping, and water and wastewater line maintenance. Your work includes hauling materials, sweeping streets, snow removal, and storm drain maintenance, directly impacting the safety and quality of life in Durango.

We’ll invest in your success. If you don’t already have a Class B Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), we’ll facilitate the training you need to obtain it. We also offer a $500 per month snowplow bonus between November 1st and April 30th each year.

City of Durango’s Trail to Excellence (T2E) fosters continuous improvement and collaboration. Your ideas help shape citywide improvements, align with measurable goals, and support a culture that values teamwork, dependability, professionalism, service, respect, innovation, and wellbeing.

• Operate various construction and maintenance equipment, including dump trucks, skid loaders, front-end loaders, cement mixers, forklifts, vactor trucks, patch trucks, ditch witches, weed cutters, snowplows, street sweepers, and more.
• Perform preventative maintenance on heavy and light equipment.
• Maintain production logs and records.
• Participate in road construction and repair, including:
  • Constructing and finishing concrete for curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streets, and alleys.
  • Digging ditches and back filling trenches.
  • Installing storm drain pipes.
  • Breaking and repairing concrete and asphalt.
  • Hot patching, sealing, and removing debris from road surfaces.
• Perform street maintenance tasks, including:
  • Barricading and traffic control around work sites.
  • Installing street signs in compliance with regulations and ordinances.
  • Painting crosswalk lines, curbs, and traffic control symbols.
  • Operating a street sweeper to clean and maintain roadways, picking up litter, and cleaning storm drains.
  • Removing snow and ice from roadways and parks as directed.

• A high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Two years of experience performing street maintenance work and operating light construction, agriculture, landscaping, or maintenance equipment.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a valid Commercial Driver License (CDL) during employment.

• Have knowledge of basic practices, methods, materials, and equipment used in grounds maintenance and general maintenance work.
• Familiarity with traffic laws, ordinances, and rules involved in heavy equipment operation.
• Have excellent customer service skills.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Ample personal time off (PTO) and 11 paid holidays.
• 4-day work week.
• $500 per month snowplow bonus between November 1st and April 30th each year.
• 401(a) retirement plan and optional deferred compensation plan.
• Basic life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Paid Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Free access to the Durango Community Recreation Center and Chapman Hill Ice Rink & Ski Area.
• Holistic Employee Wellness Program.
• Free transit pass and family member discounts.
• Reimbursement for job-related classes to foster continuous learning.
• Sixteen hours of volunteer time off per year to support local non-profit organizations.