Highway Maintenance Worker
Job Description
Engaging Role
Position: Highway Maintenance Worker
Company: Hand County
Company: Hand County
Job Brief
Highway maintenance workers are responsible for ensuring the department’s highways are kept safe and drivable for the traveling public at all times.
Experience
Job Growth and Advancement is required
Job Detail
- methods, materials, and techniques used to perform road maintenance activities (desirable but not required).
- preventive maintenance methods such as changing oil, rotating tires, and lubricating parts (desirable but not required).
- basic math to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
- basic computer operation (desirable but not required). Skill to: use and maintain a variety of hand and power tools.
- operate, maintain, and repair various equipment and attachments (desirable but not required).
- drive and operate a manual transmission. Ability to: display high standards of ethical conduct.
- treat customers courteously and be responsive to their needs.
- work cooperatively with others and promote a friendly work climate in order to achieve shared goals.
- display a high level of effort and commitment towards completing assignments and goals.
- attend to all details of assignments and complete work properly, accurately, and thoroughly.
- lift 35 pounds routinely, up to 60 pounds occasionally (without assistance), and 90 or more pounds infrequently (with assistance).
- routinely reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. This position is eligible for Veterans’ Preference per ARSD 55:10:02:08
- Hand County does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete an Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9.
- Hand County offers employer paid life insurance and health insurance plus paid holidays as enumerated in policy, generous vacation and sick leave accrual, dental, vision, and other insurance options, and retirement benefits. You can view our benefits information at https://hand.sdcounties.org/employee. This position is a member of Class A retirement under SDRS.
- The application for employment is found on our website https://hand.sdcounties.org/employment or by visiting the Hand County Auditor’s Office for a paper copy. #hc185875