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Roadside Maintenance Worker

Missouri Department of Transportation

Kansas City, Missouri

Job Type Permanent
Salary $45,557.76 per year
Benefits MoDOT offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Visit our CAREERS page to explore all we have to offer. Your total compensation
Deadline Dec 25, 2025
Experience 0 - 1 years
  • Maintains state highway systems, 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.
  • Maintains, cleans, and repairs state highway right of ways and medians, including spraying weeds, clearing brush and debris, felling trees, repairing and replacing road signs and guardrails; cleaning curbs and gutters; painting buildings and equipment; and servicing equipment and machinery.
  • Operates vehicles to transport employees, equipment, machinery and/or materials, or to warn oncoming traffic, plow snow and spread ice control materials; mows right of way using tractor mower and hand tools; operates auger, forestry machine, backhoe, forklift, and various trucks (e.g., dump, chemical applicator, bucket, utv, and platform).
  • May help with inventorying, mixing, loading, and delivering pesticides.
  • May assist with Monarch CCAA plantings and habitat restorations.
  • Emergency storm clean up, in addition to snow removal, may be required.
  • May assist other sheds with area tasks including training, brush removal, spraying, etc.
  • Performs other responsibilities as required or assigned.
Category General / Stewardship