Road and Bridge Technician

Road & Bridge Technician

This position performs highway construction and maintenance work to keep the roadways, bridges, and roadsides safe and in good repair. Also performs winter maintenance activities.

Essential Functions :

• Performs general highway maintenance and related activities as assigned, including snow and ice removal, temporary and permanent asphalt surface repairs, patching holes, sawing pavement, concrete repairs, installing bridges, painting roads, sign repairs, clearing brush, hauling materials, flagging traffic, sweeping intersections, routering and sealing road cracks, culvert and drainage work, etc.
• Operates machines to spread, smooth, level, or steel-reinforce stone, concrete, or asphalt on roadbeds.
• Observes distribution of paving material to adjust machine settings or material flow, and indicates low spots for workers to add material.
• Lights burners or starts heating units of machines, and regulates screed temperatures and asphalt flow rates.
• Operates tamping machines or manually rolls surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grade specifications.
• Fills tanks, hoppers, or machines with paving materials.
• Signals equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, or adjustment of machinery, equipment, or materials.
• Digs ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, or rakes.
• Safely operates assigned tucks and heavy construction equipment, machinery, and tools for highway and bridge construction and maintenance; and maintenance materials handling.
• Responds to weather situations including snow and ice events, high water, washouts, and others as directed.
• Responds to unforeseen emergency situations including cargo spills, traffic accidents, blocked roads, pavement buckles, and others as directed.
• Operates brush cutters, chain saws, asphalt kettles, jackhammers, weed sprayers, forklifts, hand mowers, and various hand tools.
• May operate heavy motorized equipment including but not limited to, motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, large capacity loaders, large roller compactors, large trucks, tractors, oil distributors, semi-tractor, and trailer, and other similar equipment of comparable size and complexity, as required.
• Performs daily inspection and service to equipment.
• Maintains records of inspection and services.
• Loads, delivers, and unloads materials and equipment for highway, bridge construction and maintenance work using single- and multi-axle trucks in combination with tanks and trailers.
• Operates heavy-duty snowplow.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.