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