Highway Maintenance Worker - Shop

Highway Maintenance Worker – Winona Shop

• Job Category:
  Highway
• Requisition Number:
  HIGHW
  001615
• Position Type:
  Full‑time
• Pay: $28.21/hour (DOQ) up to $36.49/hour
• Location:
  
  5300 W Highway 61, Winona, MN 55987, USA

• Maintain and repair county roads and bridges, including installing and repairing culverts, repairing road washouts, plowing snow, sanding/salting roads, digging trenches, patching blacktop, brush cutting, hauling crushed rock, and installing concrete pipes.
• Operate heavy equipment such as motor grader, front‑end loader, excavator, sign truck, tractor, bobcat, bulldozer, and be familiar with their capabilities.
• Operate portable power plant, screening plant, and stacking conveyors.
• Perform duties in extreme weather and often at night to ensure safe driving conditions.
• Represent the County positively to the public.
• Maintain shop buildings, grounds, and routine vehicle and equipment service.
• Order, fabricate, repair, install, or adjust highway warning, information, and construction signs.
• Serve as Department Safety Officer or lead worker for inventory.
• Perform any other duties assigned.

• Valid Class B driver’s license (Class A with tanker endorsement within 1 year of hire).
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to pass random drug and alcohol tests.
• Drive vehicles safely in adverse weather and identify hazardous situations.
• Communicate effectively via radio, telephone, verbally, and in writing.
• Work safely under adverse conditions.
• Knowledge of road signs.
• Experience with heavy equipment operation desirable.
• Knowledge of road construction and maintenance materials desirable.
• Highway work zone safety experience desirable.
• Ability to report to assigned workstation within thirty minutes of notification.

Applications open until 4:00 p.m. June 24, 2026. For the complete job classification, ADA requirements, or benefit statement, please email Winona

CountyHR.

Equal Opportunity Employer. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.