Career Details :: Highway Maintenance Workers
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.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Dumps, spreads, and tamps asphalt, using pneumatic tamper to patch broken pavement.
- Drives truck to transport crew and equipment to work site.
- Erects, installs, and repairs guardrails, highway markers, button-type lane markers, and snow fences, using hand tools and power tools.
- Drives truck or tractor equipped with adjustable snow plow and blower unit.
- Drives tractor with mower attachment to cut grass.
- Verifies alignment of markers by sight.
- Sets signs and cones around work area to divert traffic.
- Blends compounds to form adhesive mixture, using spoon.
- Measures and marks locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
Related Careers
- Construction Laborers
- Fence Erectors
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
- Pipelayers
- Pipelaying Fitters
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Operating Vehicles or Equipment
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Outdoors
- Standing
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
- Common Protective or Safety Attire
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