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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”
- Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
- Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
- Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
- Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
- 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.
- Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
- Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- 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.
- Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
- Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
- Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Culvert cleaners
- Laser printers
- Platform trucks
- Heavy trucks
- Bulldozers
- Rear flail mowers
- Concrete groovers
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Cherry pickers
- Adjustable wrenches
- Pavement joint sealers
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Rotary snowplows
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Low boys
- Swinging stages
- Hammers
- Snoopers
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Dump trucks
- Epoxy guns
- Theodolites
- Rakes
- Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
- Paint guns
- Tar kettles
- Push mowers
- Desktop computers
- Pavement rollers
- Two way radios
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Concrete mixers
- Tar distributors
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Pull type pavers
- Truck mounted excavators
- Concrete saws
- Cold planers
- Chain saws
- Mounted pavement breakers
- Impact wrenches
- Sewer cleaners
- Weedeaters
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Chip spreaders
- 10-ton crawlers
- Bucket trucks
- Pneumatic tampers
- Graders
- Berm drag tractors
- Ditchers
- Seeders
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Power saws
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Towable barricades
- Machetes
- Measuring wheels
- Paint transfer pumps
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Hydraulic excavators
- Harrows
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Vans
- Chemical sprayers
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Front end loaders
- Water trucks
- Self-propelled cranes
- Pavement grinders
- Brush chippers
- Air compressors
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Power screeds
- Athey loaders
- Light trucks
- Pressure washers
- Circuit testing equipment
- Shovels
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Gradalls
- Pile drivers
- Sewer eels
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Gas transporters
- Scissor trucks
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Windrow loaders
- Portable welding equipment
- Screwdrivers
- Hole diggers/augers
- Scaffolding
- Aggregate spreaders
- Compactors
- Snow blowers
- Transport trucks
- Tractor disc attachments
- Laydown machines
- Boom trucks
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Side dozers
- Oil heating burners
- Sand spreaders
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- Stump cutters
- Bituminous pavers
- Paint mixers
- Digger derricks
- Generators
- Draglines
- Sandblasters
- Snowplows
- Jackhammers
- Tire chains
- Personal computers
- Tanker trucks
- Truck mounted cranes
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Rock drills
- Swiss hammers
- Tow brooms
- Water pumps
- Rear brush hog mowers
- Forklifts
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- Stone box spreaders
- Rock cutters
- Spades
- Flatbed trailers
- Bush axes
- Picks
- Mud jacks
- Power broom street sweepers
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook
- Database software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft PowerPoint