Highway Maintenance Worker 1

ODOT's Mission Statement: To provide a transportation system that is safe, accessible, well maintained, and positioned for the future. Benefits to you: Extensive benefits including medical, vision, dental and basic life insurance 11 paid holidays per year Paid time off with vacation, sick and personal leave accruals At least a 14% employer contribution in to your OPERS pension plan Pay increases pursuant to the Ohio Revised Code Employee Tuition reimbursement programs Work/Life Balance The opportunity to work on an important mission Visit our Total Rewards website What You'll Do Attend training in order to obtain a Class B CDL Serves the public and works to make the roads in Ohio safer Who We Are Looking For Safety driven Enjoys working outdoors Honest, accountable, trustworthy, and respectable A positive team player Official Position Description Receives on the job training & performs the following highway maintenance duties: Receives CDL preparation & snow & ice training (i.e., CDL preparation & training, spreader attachment/detachment, plow blade replacement, plowing snow, snowplow operation & associated snow & ice duties). Flags & directs on-going vehicular traffic through highway maintenance & construction work sites on state & federal highways. Sets up & maintains traffic control structures (e.g., barricades, pot torches, cones, pavement markings, electrical warning devices). Performs general labor by using various hand tools (e.g., chain saw, shovels) in the maintenance & repair of highways (e.g., patches potholes, spreads berm gravel, repairs & paints guardrails, shovels snow, hand spreads salt on sidewalk, steps & pedestrian walkways, seals cracks). Performs general building, grounds, & equipment maintenance &/or custodial work (e.g., sweeps garage floor, mows grass, maintains & trims shrubbery & trees, washes windows, cleans offices, removes trash, shovels snow from sidewalks, steps & walkways, rakes leaves, paints building structures, cleans, paints & refuels equipment). Maintains & completes a daily log & work record. Cleans repairs & performs general maintenance on equipment needing minor repairs, adjustments, etc. Relieves other employees when necessary, during emergency situations. Operates two-way radio in trucks & base station at various locations in the District. Answers telephone, delivers messages, & assists the clerk at various garage locations. Performs other duties as assigned by higher authority. Formal education in arithmetic that includes addition & subtraction & in reading, writing & speaking common English vocabulary. Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above. In accordance with Section 124.11(B)(2) of Revised Code, Director of Administrative Services has determined this classification to be unskilled labor class & therefore exempt from written examination. Note: If involved in driving motorized snow & ice control equipment, must also have valid commercial driver's license. Job Skills: Transportation