Maintenance Worker, Heavy Equipment Operator, Construction Labor ​/ Trades

Overview

Performs a wide variety of maintenance and construction duties associated with maintaining highways, rural roads, and rights-of-way in a safe condition.

Salary will be determined depending on qualifications of candidates who exceed the minimum requirements as outlined within the job description.

Additional compensation based on licensure.

• Builds, maintains and/or repairs guardrails, traffic barricades, cones, signs, flags and fencing.
• Dumps, spreads, and tamps asphalt with pneumatic tamper to patch broken or eroded pavement.
• Drives truck to transport crew and equipment to work site.
• Operates tractors with mower attachments, rollers and other related equipment used in landscaping and right-of-way maintenance.
• Transports and delivers supplies, materials, and tools as needed.
• Uses shovels, picks, drills, hammers, or other hand power tools.
• Mixes, prepares and assists with installation of cement, concrete, sandbags and other materials used in road construction.
• Places traffic barricades cones or other traffic signs and flags or directs traffic safely around work crews and areas.
• Acts as a spotter for equipment operators when backing, turning, etc.
• Lays sod, spreads hay, fertilizer, or other materials in landscaping or roadside maintenance.
• Assists with the installation and repair of drainage systems.

• Ability to perform physically demanding job duties, occasionally under adverse weather conditions.
• Six (6) months experience in performing unskilled or semi-skilled laboring duties.
• A comparable amount of education, training, or experience may be substituted for the minimum qualifications.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Florida Driver's License Class B CDL or have the ability to obtain within six (6) months of employment.
• Some knowledge of tools used in maintenance and construction.
• Ability to lift up to fifty (50) pounds.
• Ability to read and write. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measurement, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to work well with others in a "Team Environment".
• Performs other related work as required, and operate other equipment as assigned to complete road construction and maintenance projects.
• In the event of an emergency, all employees are considered essential personnel and may be required to perform alternate duties.