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