Street Maintenance Worker

Job Title

Employees in this class perform a variety of semi-skilled and unskilled manual labor tasks in the maintenance, and repair of streets.

Examples of Duties

Essential Duties and Tasks

• Performs varied semi-skilled and unskilled tasks in maintaining and repairing City streets and driveways; prepares asphalt materials for resurfacing and patching; digs, pours and fills holes with shovel; spreads, brooms and tamps asphalt to smooth and pack.
• Hand grades potholes in streets, ditches, and gravel in driveways.
• Cleans storm drains, ditches and catch basins using rakes, shovels and hands; may use bush ax and weed eater to clean ditches and right of ways; mows, trims, and performs landscapes tasks in right of ways; uses pitch fork to pick up debris; carries arm loads of debris to the truck and/or to debris piles deep in the right of ways; uses leaf vacuum machine to get up leaves.
• Sets up safety cones and signs and flags traffic around work sites.
• Drives small cab trucks to haul to and from work sites to transport equipment and supplies; operates asphalt roller; air hammer, and other light to medium unskilled equipment.
• Cleans weeds and crabgrass from roadways shoulders using shovels to break weeds loose from cracks.
• Assists in erecting and or repairing road signs.
• Assists with trimming limbs overhanging streets or in right of way using pole saws and hand clippers; occasionally may use chain saw.
• Assists Street Maintenance Technician in concrete work; mixes concrete; hands tools; assists with building forms, pouring and smoothing concrete.
• May assist in sanitation by riding truck, picking up and connecting roll out garbage containers, and in water sewer with varied manual tasks in digging with shovels, laying pipes, etc.
• Puts up holiday decorations and banners along city streets

Additional Job Duties

• Performs related duties as required.

Typical Qualifications

Desirable Education and Experience

• High school graduation and some related experience.

Special Requirements

• Possession of
• Valid North Carolina driver's license.