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