Road Maintenance and Landfill Equipment Operator; Star Valley​/Roads

Road Maintenance and Landfill Equipment Operator (Star Valley/Roads)

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The purpose of this position is to perform semi-skilled work in the construction, repair and maintenance of roads, right-of-ways, auxiliary structures, and secondary roads; operate various types of construction equipment in accordance with safety regulations and procedures. The employee will operate trucks, perform cleaning duties, train new employees, weigh vehicles, direct traffic, and assist customers at the landfill. The employee may be assigned to the Roads Division or the Recycling & Landfill Division and will work in either division on a temporary basis.

• Operate front‑end loaders, backhoes, bulldozers, motor graders, paving machines, street sweepers, transfer trucks, and compactors to maintain roads and sections of the road network.
• Operate landfill equipment such as water trucks for dust control, compactor, scraper, bulldozer, and loader for piling solid waste.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and solid waste disposal regulations.
• Grade roads, pave roads, replace asphalt, patch, and repair roads; clean roadways and sweep streets.
• Maintain ditches and culverts, remove debris, install culverts, and ensure efficient water flow.
• Move dirt at landfill operations according to environmental regulations; plan land and slope grades for safe equipment operation and build refuse lifts.
• Coordinate with Department of Corrections inmate work detail.
• Perform manual labor assignments such as fire control, hazardous materials cleanup, guardrail and foliage maintenance, debris removal, and brush and tree removal impacting roadways.
• Assist landfill customers to unload refuse safely and separate recyclable products.
• Follow safety regulations on work zones and flagging sites, placing barricades and cones, performing lagoon liner leakage testing, waste oil barrel cleaning, freon removal, battery storage, and waste tire programs.
• Perform emergency road services related to fires, floods, roadway inspections, snow removal, flood damage repair, rockslides, and fires.
• Haul materials and transport vehicles and equipment to job sites using various trucks and transporters.
• Inspect, clean, and perform routine operational checks on trucks and heavy equipment; report necessary repairs.
• Perform traffic control activities including setting up signs and flagging traffic; direct traffic at landfill.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Entry level

• Temporary

• Management and Manufacturing
• Government Administration