Highway Maintenance Workers

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 Task

• Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
• Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
• Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
• Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
• Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
• Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
• Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
• Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
• Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
• Drive trucks or tractors with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, and remove snow and ice.
• Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
• Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
• Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
• Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
• Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
• Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
• Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
• Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.

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