Public Roads Maintenance Technician (On-Call)

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is seeking an entry-level Maintenance & Repair Worker - NDOT to join the Roads Division. The role includes maintaining streets, signs, bridges and related structures, performing laboring tasks and using hand and power tools, with varying shifts and on-call duties for emergencies.

Applicants should have an eighth-grade education and be prepared to work evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• Eighth Grade Education and experience in construction, laboring, maintenance or related field.

Responsibilities

• Maintains public right-of-ways, bridges, traffic signs, and control devices, and/or related structures.
• Operates various hand and power tools.
• Prepares sub-grade for paving, mixing, placing, and finishing concrete and asphalt pavement.
• Repairs roads, bridges, sidewalk and related structures.
• Cleans and maintains tools and equipment.
• Installs and maintains guardrails, traffic signs, and control devices.
• Patches concrete and asphalt pavement.
• Conducts preventative maintenance inspections.
• Operates, tows, or transports equipment or commercial motor vehicles.
• Operates chain saws, weed eaters or perform other potentially dangerous functions requiring skill and dexterity.
• Cleans, sweeps, flushes, removes debris from streets and right-of-ways.
• Removes all litter from the ground as required.
• Salts and shovels snow and ice along public rights-of-way and public property during inclement weather.
• Assists during Special Events

Skills

CDL (Class B+)

Education

Eighth Grade Education

Job description

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is seeking an entry-level Maintenance & Repair Worker - NDOT to join the Roads Division. The role includes maintaining streets, signs, bridges and related structures, performing laboring tasks and using hand and power tools, with varying shifts and on-call duties for emergencies.

Applicants should have an eighth-grade education and be prepared to work evenings, weekends, and holidays.