Roadway & Public Works Maintenance Technician

Pierce County; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Pierce County is seeking a Maintenance Worker to join the Maintenance & Operations Team within the Planning and Public Works Department. You will perform a variety of maintenance tasks across roads, surface water areas, and facilities, including flagging, repairs to roadways and culverts, debris pickup, and landscaping along rights-of-way.

The role requires a valid driver’s license, a safe driving record, and physical stamina for work in all weather.

Qualifications

• One or more years of experience performing skilled or semi-skilled labor such as road maintenance, landscaping, or heavy construction.

Responsibilities

• Perform repairs to roadways, roadway shoulders and related structures such as bridges, guard rails and guard rail posts; install and remove culverts; pick up rubbish, debris and dead animals; clean ditches and culverts by using a hand shovel; sweep bridges and traffic islands.
• Cut brush, trees and other vegetation on the right of way; assist in the landscaping of County road rights-of-way and in the planting and maintenance of a variety of ground cover, plants and trees.
• Perform preventive maintenance on equipment and hand tools; paint, replace and repair guard rail posts and beams; fabricate and paint sign posts, barricades and buildings with a brush, roller or spray gun.
• Square and clean holes in the roadway and knock off rough edges with a pneumatic hammer or other tools and patch with Portland cement concrete, or hot or cold asphalt mix.
• Perform routine road maintenance such as brushing, cleaning culverts, cleaning ditches with a hand shovel or scoop, blading, reshaping and improving shoulders and clearing debris from the roadway surface and right-of-way.
• Excavate and back fills trenches with hand tools; load and unload trucks with heavy materials; shovels asphalt, cinders, rocks, sand and gravel; spreads and rakes asphalt.
• May operate Class I equipment on a regular basis.
• Act as flagger, place traffic cones and other traffic control devices to ensure a smooth flow of traffic.

Job description

Pierce County is seeking a Maintenance Worker to join the Maintenance & Operations Team within the Planning and Public Works Department. You will perform a variety of maintenance tasks across roads, surface water areas, and facilities, including flagging, repairs to roadways and culverts, debris pickup, and landscaping along rights-of-way.

The role requires a valid driver’s license, a safe driving record, and physical stamina for work in all weather.