Roads Technician

Position: Roads Technician 3
Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.

Compensation:

$52,718.12 - $81,713.10

Job Description:

The primary function of this position is to perform all related repairs and/or maintenance to county roads, bridges, and rights-of-way using a variety of machines, tools, and equipment.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

* Assists in road, bridge repair, and shoulder work using various equipment, asphalt, concrete, or other materials.

* Cuts brush and moves chip debris off rights-of-way.

* Uses mow-trim, blower, rake, machete, chain saw, pole saw, buzz-bar, and chipper.

* Mows grass; cuts brush off rights-of-way.

* Digs trenches and drains, vacuums storm drains, cleans injection wells.

* Cleans up construction debris and work areas, picks up and removes trash.

* Repairs and replaces damaged or destroyed guard rails.

* Patches asphalt.

* Weeds around signs and guard rails.

* Trims and cuts trees.

* Checks and maintains tools and equipment periodically to ensure proper safe operation.

* Performs general maintenance for the County yard and equipment.

* Assists in creating signs for all County roadways.

* Assists in providing Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) in work areas.

* Drives County vehicles, transports equipment, and operates equipment in a safe manner.

* Maintains ALL required qualifications, licenses, and certificates.

* Completes appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.

* Keeps work area clean and organized; uses safety cones and signage when required.

* Attends required training and safety meetings; uses appropriate safety equipment.

* Stripe roadway, repaint stop bars, and crosswalks.

* Works extended hours during hurricanes, county emergencies, and other natural disasters, ON CALL during hurricane season.

* Responsible for personally knowing and following the County's Personnel Policies and Procedures, Administrative Instructions, Department Operating Procedures, and applicable Statutes and Regulations. Responsible for ensuring others also adhere to these standards.

* Performs other related job duties as assigned.

* In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

High School Diploma or GED. 3 years minimum of prior related work experience.

Special

Qualifications:

Minimum requirement of a valid Florida Commercial Driver's License Class "B" with Air Brake Endorsement. Acquire TTC/IMOT Certification within 6 months of hire date. Position is subject to the mandatory Department of Transportation Drug Testing Program, which involves random drug testing. This is a Safety Sensitive Position.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

* Ability to work from a general outline of duties and responsibilities.

* Ability to perform technical or trades-based work that requires a solid understanding of the use of heavy equipment. Some of the tasks performed include participating in data collection and detailed analysis; reporting on the accomplishment of specific departmental goals and tasks; OR operating or repairing heavy equipment (bulldozers, cranes, graders).

* Ability to work in a responsive environment where co-workers or citizens bring problems for resolution; ability to determine problems and create individual solutions for issues.

* Ability to work with less than ten co-workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work demand is medium and requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

* Balancing:
Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

* Climbing:
Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.

* Crawling:
Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

* Crouching:
Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

* Feeling:
Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

* Grasping:
Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

* Handling:
Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.

* Hearing:
Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.

* Kneeling:
Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

* Lifting:
Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from…