Career-Ladder Maintenance Tech – Roads & Facilities

State-of-Missour; Cape Girardeau (MO); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

MoDOT's Cape Girardeau, MO maintenance team maintains state highways and facilities with routine, supervised tasks. The role involves flagging, traffic control, sign and barrier upkeep, and equipment operation to move personnel and materials.

This CAREER-LADDER opening offers progression as skills grow, with overtime and emergency operations pay, competitive benefits, and opportunities to advance without a separate interview process.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED/HiSET.
• Valid Driver's License required.
• Must pass CDL exam components (written and driving with tanker endorsement) and have no air brake restrictions.
• Pass medical-physical exam and work simulation.

Responsibilities

• Maintains state highway systems, including filling roadway joints and cracks and patching potholes; flagging and directing traffic; setting up signs, cones, arrow boards, and other traffic control devices; loading, unloading, spreading, and hauling materials and supplies; cutting and clearing brush; removing trash and debris from roadsides; cleaning and clearing ditches.
• Maintains, cleans, and repairs state highway facilities, including repairing and replacing road signs and guardrails; cleaning curbs and gutters; painting buildings and equipment; and servicing equipment and machinery.
• Operates vehicles to transport employees, equipment, machinery and/or materials, or to warn oncoming traffic, plow snow and spread ice control materials; mows right of way using tractor mower and hand tools; operates auger, trencher, backhoe, forklift, and various trucks (e.g., dump, aerial boom, bucket, and platform).
• May repair bridge decks (full and partial) and drains, and clean bridge bents/caps at heights on ladders or utilizing scaffolding.
• May install signs, including structural and large signs at overhead positions, inspect truss signs, pour concrete sign footings, weld and cut steel sign posts, and repair and maintain break away and/or overlay signs.

Skills

Driver's license

Physical stamina

Education

High School Diploma or GED/HiSET

Job description

MoDOT's Cape Girardeau, MO maintenance team maintains state highways and facilities with routine, supervised tasks. The role involves flagging, traffic control, sign and barrier upkeep, and equipment operation to move personnel and materials.

This CAREER-LADDER opening offers progression as skills grow, with overtime and emergency operations pay, competitive benefits, and opportunities to advance without a separate interview process.