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Job Description
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road or plow snow from roadway.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-4051.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 39,540.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 19.00
- Currently, there are 143,320 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Highway Maintenance Workers”.
Also Known As…
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Truck Driver
- Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)
- Transportation Maintenance Operator
- Highway Worker
- Highway Maintenance Worker
- Highway Maintenance Technician
- Highway Maintenance Crew Worker
- Highway Maintainer
- Heavy Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Transportation Worker
- Traffic Control Specialist
- Traffic Control Flagger
- Striper Paint Gun Operator
- Street Worker
- Snow Plow Operator
- Road Worker
- Road Sign Installer
- Road Repairer
- Road Patcher
- Road Oiling Truck Driver
- Road Oiler
- Road Mender
- Road Maker
- Road Grader Operator
- Road Crew Member
- Road Builder
- Quick Technician
- Patrolman
- Paint Crew Person
- Oil Spreader Operator
- Materials Handling Equipment Operator
- Maintenance Worker
- Maintenance Technician
- Lane Marker Installer
- Laborer
- Hot Oiler
- Flagger
- Caltrans Landscape Maintenance Worker
- Caltrans Equipment Operator
- Asphalt Raker
Tasks for “Material Handler”
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
- Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
- Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
- Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
- Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
- Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
- Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
- Drive heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, remove snow and ice, and spread salt and sand.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
- Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
- Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
- Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
Related Technology & Tools
- Forklifts
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Low boys
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Brush chippers
- Bush axes
- Sand spreaders
- Side dozers
- Two way radios
- Truck mounted cranes
- Rakes
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Flatbed trailers
- Air compressors
- Rotary snowplows
- Heavy trucks
- Measuring wheels
- Bucket trucks
- Digger derricks
- Portable welding equipment
- Graders
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- Screwdrivers
- Hammers
- Paint guns
- Pavement joint sealers
- Rear flail mowers
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Circuit testing equipment
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Athey loaders
- Jackhammers
- Pile drivers
- Push mowers
- Bituminous pavers
- Sewer cleaners
- Laser printers
- Platform trucks
- Cherry pickers
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- Pavement grinders
- Mud jacks
- Compactors
- Desktop computers
- Laydown machines
- Rock drills
- Swinging stages
- Hydraulic excavators
- Vans
- Cold planers
- Picks
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Personal computers
- Harrows
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- Rear brush hog mowers
- Mounted pavement breakers
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- Power saws
- Stone box spreaders
- Water trucks
- Oil heating burners
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Stump cutters
- Transport trucks
- Pull type pavers
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Scaffolding
- Concrete saws
- Epoxy guns
- Boom trucks
- Concrete mixers
- Self-propelled cranes
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Power broom street sweepers
- Chain saws
- Pneumatic tampers
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Tar distributors
- Light trucks
- Paint transfer pumps
- Adjustable wrenches
- Scissor trucks
- Paint mixers
- Truck mounted excavators
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Sewer eels
- Concrete groovers
- Tanker trucks
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Towable barricades
- Hole diggers/augers
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Seeders
- Power screeds
- Machetes
- Berm drag tractors
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Pavement rollers
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Tire chains
- Windrow loaders
- Snow blowers
- Tar kettles
- Impact wrenches
- Spades
- Weedeaters
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Snoopers
- 10-ton crawlers
- Chip spreaders
- Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
- Pressure washers
- Bulldozers
- Draglines
- Culvert cleaners
- Swiss hammers
- Rock cutters
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Front end loaders
- Aggregate spreaders
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- Tractor disc attachments
- Gas transporters
- Snowplows
- Water pumps
- Ditchers
- Sandblasters
- Gradalls
- Shovels
- Chemical sprayers
- Theodolites
- Tow brooms
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Dump trucks
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Generators
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Database software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Excel