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