Highway Maintainer - Knoxville Team Section #421/Knox County - Ipr#46546

Job Responsibilities

25%

1. Operates CDL Class A licensed vehicles.

• Washes, greases and conducts minor repairs and preventive maintenance activities of these vehicles and equipment.
• Operates maintenance trucks, pavement marking equipment, tractors, mowing machines, snowplows, salt spreaders, compressors, jack hammers, generators and other equipment.

25%

2. Performs labor relating to maintenance of roadways.

• Fills in shoulder ruts.
• Directs and controls traffic during road maintenance operations.
• Fills pavement cracks and joints.
• Fills, fires and operates asphalt kettles.
• Repairs, replaces and patches concrete, bituminous and other roadway surfaces.
• Loads and unloads trucks.
• Spreads salt, sand, gravel and asphalt.
• Responds to emergency weather situations, as instructed verbally or in writing, to inspect roadways and remove hazardous material/obstacles, some weighing up to 50 pounds, from roadways and drainage areas.
• Cleans and repairs bridges.

20%

3. During snow and ice conditions, assists in snow and ice control.

• Operates snowplows, spreads salt and sand.
• Plows and removes snow.

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10%

4. Performs labor relating to the maintenance of roadside and right-of-way.

• Cleans and paints bridge bearings.
• Chips, seals and cleans bridges.
• Cleans, repairs and erects signs.
• Repairs and cleans culverts, drains, storm sewers, ditches and other drainage facilities.
• Digs post holes, sets or pulls posts.
• Repairs guardrails and fence.
• Cuts grass, weeds and brush.
• Paints curbs.
• Plants, trims and fertilizes trees and shrubbery.

5%

5. Performs routine housekeeping duties at headquarters.

• Cleans, maintains stockpile of materials.
• Performs other tasks associated with the general care of headquarters.

5%

6. Removes and disposes of trash, dead animals and other debris along highways.

5%

7. Maintains on the job records.

5%

8. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of those enumerated above.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Minimum Qualifications

1. Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four years of high school.
2. Requires possession of a Class "A" CDL with appropriate endorsements, to include X or N and no airbrake restrictions.
3. For seasonal employees only, possession of a Class B CDL with appropriate endorsements, to include X or N and no airbrake restrictions, is acceptable for a period of two years. At the beginning of the third year from the initial hire date, a seasonal employee must possess a Class A CDL.
4. Requires one year driving experience immediately preceding appointment free of incidents which could result in license suspension or revocation.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Prefer experience operating snowplows.
2. Prefer experience maintaining roadways.
3. Prefer experience with maintaining roadsides.

Conditions of Employment

1. Requires successful completion of a background investigation.
2. Requires the ability to perform arduous labor.
3. Requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
4. Requires the ability to work in confined spaces, climb steep terrain, and wade in water.
5. Requires the ability to deal with poisonous plants, animals, insects, rodents, and snakes.
6. Requires the ability to perform outdoor work in a variety of conditions including, but not limited to, hot, cold, wet, windy, muddy, active constructions sites, and roadways open to traffic.
7. Requires the ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
8. Requires the ability to maintain productive working relationships.
9. Operations employees are subject to call at any hour of the day or night on any day of the year.
10. Occasionally, the department is required to respond to emergencies outside normal work hours. As a result, negotiated rate employees are required to work reasonable amounts of overtime when necessary.
11. Any bargaining unit employee who may be required to engage in a call out shall respond to the call as quickly as practicable but in no situation can the response time exceed forty-five minutes.

Position Marketing Statement

The Illinois Department of Transportation seeks to hire a Highway Maintainer to perform a variety of tasks related to the maintenance, repair and upkeep of roads, bridges and other related structures and features.