Maintenance Worker-Drainage and Right of Way

Public Works is currently hiring for several essential positions that play a critical role in maintaining the Town's infrastructure. To help fill these important vacancies, the Town has approved both a Sign-On Incentive Program and an Employee Referral Incentive Program
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The $1,500 Sign-On Incentive is available for newly hired Public Works employees (excluding Administrative Staff).

Key details:

• Paid on the employee's first paycheck following hire.
• Limited to one sign‑on incentive per employee while the program is in effect.
• Employees who leave Town employment within 90 days must repay $750.
• Incentives are paid through payroll and are subject to applicable taxes.

Help us recruit great candidates and earn extra income!

For eligible Public Works positions (excluding Administrative Staff), employees may receive:

• $500 when the referred employee is hired.
• $1,000 after the referred employee successfully completes six months of employment.
• $1,500 total incentive.

Additional information:

• Applicants must identify the referring employee on their employment application for the referral to qualify.
• Incentives are paid through payroll and are subject to applicable taxes.

Under direct supervision, performs tasks related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of streets, bridges, medians, rights‑of‑way, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, alleys, drainage systems, and other public areas within the Town. This position may require irregular hours, including evenings, weekends, and participation in an on‑call schedule for emergency repairs.

• Clean, repair, and maintain roads, bridges, medians, rights‑of‑way, alleys, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and other public area.
• Handle asphalt and concrete placement; load and unload trucks; lay pipelines.
• Repair and patch manholes; perform street overlays; seal cracks in asphalt and concrete; remove and place concrete, including form setting and finishing; read grades and set grade stakes.
• Assist in surveying, brush and tree cutting, mowing, and weed control; maintain clean street intersections, medians, and alleys.
• Operate, repair, and maintain vehicles, light equipment, and tools including tractors, mowers, front‑end and back‑end loaders, trenchers, bucket trucks, augers, maintainers, jackhammers, saws, drills, bolt cutters, pothole patchers, rollers, dump trucks, and other equipment.
• Work safely in close proximity to high‑speed vehicle traffic, medians, and rights‑of‑way.
• Identify and report potential hazards, liability exposures, problem areas, and inquiries from the public.
• Conduct daily inspections and preventive maintenance of vehicles, equipment, and tools, including cleaning, safety checks, and servicing.
• Adhere to Town and departmental safety rules and regulations.
• Participate in standby/on‑call schedule for emergency repairs at night, on weekends, and during inclement weather.
• Assist other departments and perform other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED).
• Valid state issued driver’s license; driving record must comply with Town policy.
• Ability to obtain a valid Texas Class “A” Commercial Driver’s License with proper endorsements, without restrictions, within six (6) months of hire.

The physical abilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Ability to talk, read, see, walk, hear, and follow oral and written directions.
• Ability to perform routine and physically strenuous tasks on a repetitive basis.
• Hand, foot, and eye coordination sufficient to operate light to heavy equipment.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 100 lbs. of equipment multiple times per day, shovel, crawl, bend, kneel, climb on and off equipment, and operate vibrating equipment.
• Ability to work indoors, outdoors, underground, in confined spaces, and in trenches; on level, slippery, sloping, unstable, and muddy terrain; and under noisy conditions.
• Ability to work in adverse environmental conditions including rain, sleet, snow, heat, dust, sun exposure, and under hazardous…