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