Performs routine transportation operations or maintenance support work such as: roadway maintenance and repair; light and heavy equipment operation; preventive and minor maintenance on equipment; traffic control; and helping the public during emergency situations. Work requires contact with private entities. Employees at this level follow standard practices that do not require frequent supervision of details.Essential Duties:The essential duties for the Roadway Maintenance Tech I include:Assists in sanding or cleaning bridges and roads, posting warning signs, helping the public and performing other work as directed during emergency situations such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents and hazardous material spills.Assists with traffic control; places and gathers cones, warning signs and barricades; flags traffic.May serve as a lead worker.Mows rights-of-way and picnic and rest areas; performs plant and landscape maintenance including trimming trees and brush.Operates light equipment such as a front-end loader-one and a quarter cubic yard or less, pneumatic roller, rotary broom, spreader box, backhoe, street sweeper, and mower.Maintains picnic and rest areas, rights-of-way, maintenance yards and comfort stations.Performs preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), routine servicing and minor repairs on equipment and completes various required reports including timekeeping, equipment forms, inventory, accident forms, and PMI.May perform other duties as assigned.Additional duties for Roadway Maintenance Tech II include all the above and:Operates heavy equipment such as a front-end loader-one and a half cubic yard or more, tractor-trailer haul truck, large dragline, shovel, paint striper, and dump truck.Maintains highways and rights-of-way; performs roadway repairs; erects and repairs guard rails, highway markers and signs; hauls materials and equipment to job sites. Assists in identifying, repairing and installing signs, delineators, mail box supports and posts; performs basic weldingas needed; as required uses/moves equipment/tools, materials and products related to these activities.Assists in providing support to local law enforcement officials at accident sites; assists stranded motorists asrequired.Additional duties for Roadway Maintenance Tech III include all the above and:Operates complex heavy equipment such as a motor grader, large excavator, heavy bulldozer, crane, herbicide truck, heavy asphalt paving machine, self-propelled asphalt distributor, and profiling/milling machine. May serve as a lead worker.

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