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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”.

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Tasks for “Highway Maintenance Worker”

Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
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.
Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
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.
Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
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 poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.

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Cherry pickers
Athey loaders
Windrow loaders
Hammers
Power screeds
13000-23000 pound graders
Sewer eels
Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
Portable welding equipment
Measuring wheels
Personal computers
Asphalt reclaimers
Epoxy guns
Truck mounted excavators
Side dozers
Snoopers
Pressure washers
Jackhammers
Concrete mixers
Towable barricades
Tire chains
Self-propelled cranes
Weedeaters
Tractor disc attachments
Screwdrivers
Sandblasters
Platform trucks
Harrows
Tanker trucks
Rotary snowplows
Circuit testing equipment
Berm drag tractors
Pavement joint sealers
Bulldozers
High-pressure hydraulic pumps
Chain saws
4-6 ton roller patchers
Sewer cleaners
Paint mixers
Concrete groovers
Snowplows
Two-wheel drive front end loaders
Power broom street sweepers
Oil heating burners
Ditchers
Gas transporters
Hole diggers/augers
Concrete paving vibrators
Power saws
Generators
Tractor-mounted mowers
Theodolites
Boom trucks
Tar distributors
Heavy trucks
Aggregate spreaders
Scaffolding
Adjustable wrenches
Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
Stone box spreaders
Pull type pavers
Truck mounted cranes
Swinging stages
Bush axes
Side-mount rotary mowers
Brush chippers
Forklifts
Rear brush hog mowers
Adjustable widemouth pliers
Steam cleaning equipment
Water pumps
Compactors
Stump cutters
Graders
10-ton crawlers
Culvert cleaners
Tow brooms
Snow blowers
Computerized weed spray trucks
Draglines
Dump trucks
10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
Paint guns
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30-ton clam buckets
Mounted pavement breakers
Seeders
Front end loaders
Tar kettles
Rock drills
Scissor trucks
Self-propelled road wideners
Light trucks
Belly dump tractor trailers
Graffiti removing lasers
Picks
Rock cutters
Bituminous pavers
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Air compressors
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Shovels
8-ton dump trucks
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Cold planers
Thermoplastic applicators
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Low boys
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Paint transfer pumps
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Two way radios
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Patch rollers less than 9 tons
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