Street Maintenance Technician

Join our Streets Department team and play a vital role in maintaining the City's infrastructure. This position performs a variety of hands-on tasks involving the maintenance, repair, and construction of streets, drainage systems, and alleys while operating equipment and utilizing specialized tools to keep our community safe and accessible.

• Participate in all phases of general maintenance in concrete streets, asphalt streets, allies, drainage ditches, and storm drainage systems.
• Perform skilled construction, maintenance, and labor work; resurfaces and grades and shapes roads; aids in emergencies and storm related activities.
• Assist with preparation of concrete base including setting wood forms and positioning steel; measure and pour concrete; finish concrete; remove wooden forms and backfill; clean site.
• Performs asphalt repair and replacements.
• Operate various equipment involved in the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, including mowers, light tractors with attachments, dump trucks, front-end loaders, and other tools and equipment.
• Haul material, transport vehicles, and equipment to job sites to use various trucks.
• Load and unload materials and equipment.
• Ensure that any vehicle and equipment issued to them is properly maintained.
• Cut, collect, and dispose of tree limbs, weeds, trash, litter, debris.
• Assist with sidewalk markings, street signs, and streetlights.
• Perform preventive checks on equipment and if a repair is warranted the employee is to contact their supervisor so that the necessary steps are taken to have the property repaired.
• Prepare equipment, vehicles, and tools for work assignments.
• Read and understand written job instructions and plans.
• Clean and maintain shop tools, equipment, vehicles, and facilities.
• Performs a variety of Public Works Department manual labor tasks as assigned.
• Subject to after-hours call-out for emergency situations.
• Has frequent contact with employees, citizens, local state, federal agencies, and other city departments.
• Ability to arrive to work on time and must maintain a regular and reliable level of attendance.