What you’ll do:   

• Leads crews during maintenance operations, specifically right of ways, shoulders and medians. Including mowing and trimming right of ways; treating noxious and invasive weeds; cutting and clearing brush; felling trees; cleaning up storm damage; flagging and directing traffic; setting up signs, cones, arrow boards, and other traffic control devices; loading, unloading, spreading, and hauling materials and supplies.
• Operates highway maintenance equipment, including tractors, dozers, loaders, trucks, graders and snowplows.
• Oversees material usage in the field and may prepare and submit supply, inventory, material, and building reports; assists in maintaining employee records.
• Oversees routine maintenance of equipment, buildings and grounds.
• May assist with Monarch CCAA plantings and habitat restorations.
• May assist other sheds with area tasks including training, brush removal, spraying, etc.
• Performs other responsibilities as required or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED/HiSET
• Valid Class A Commercial Driver's License with tanker endorsement, no air brake restrictions, and interstate status (either Excepted Interstate [EI] or Non-Excepted Interstate [NI]).
• Five years of experience performing roadway, roadside, bridge or sign maintenance or pavement marking responsibilities as described in the following examples of work.
• Successful completion of a work simulation examination and a medical-physical examination.

Special Working Conditions: substitution of minimum requirements may be considered

• Job requires significant physical stamina and endurance, including the ability to move materials by hand, operate hand tools, and perform stationary flagging.
• Job requires exposure to physical hazards, health and safety risks, and/or adverse or otherwise undesirable characteristics in the environment, including risk of physical injury from carrying out duties in heavy traffic areas, on or near heavy equipment or machinery, and with hazardous chemicals or materials.
• Job may require operation of vehicles to plow snow and spread ice control materials.