Maintenance Technician - Streets

Candidate's starting salary will be between $20.91/hr.

- $31.49/hr.

Hiring range for Maintenance Technician I: $20.91 - $27.19/hr.

Hiring range for Maintenance Technician II: $22.19 - $28.84/hr.

Hiring range for Maintenance Technician III: $24.22 - $31.49/hr.

Under general supervision, performs skilled and semi-skilled work in performing a variety of tasks in the general construction, repairs, and maintenance of city streets, sidewalks, rights-of-ways, medians, alleys, curbs, and storm drains. The ideal candidate will embody our core values of service, humility, innovation, neighborly, and excellence (SHINE).

• Completes street maintenance by:
  • Setting up and removing barricades and traffic cones to secure work areas.
  • Operating various heavy equipment.
  • Observing problematic cracks in streets.
  • Determining best way to complete repair.
  • Preparing crack seal machine, inserting tar into machine, heating hoses.
  • Blowing cracks with air to remove debris, rocks and dirt.
  • Utilizing crack seal machine to fill cracks with tar.
  • Documenting all work completed.
• Repairs potholes and other damage to City’s streets by:
  • Operating motor vehicle, observing City’s roadways.
  • Identifying problematic roadway hazards.
  • Retrieving appropriate equipment and tools from truck.
  • Using a saw to cut around pothole in street.
  • Operating steel roller to roll base.
  • Tacking outer edges.
  • Filling pothole with concrete or asphalt mix to patch street damage.
  • Utilizing loader machinery to back drag.
  • Raking area to obtain smooth edges.
  • Maneuvering steel roller over area to compact mix.
  • Documenting work completed.
• Maintains City’s concrete areas by:
  • Identifying problematic streets, alleys and sidewalk areas.
  • Breaking concrete area.
  • Setting forms for new concrete, filling with concrete mix, ensuring shape of concrete.
  • Operating various equipment.
  • Documenting all work completed.
• Maintains City’s streets by:
  • Patrolling streets and related area for litter and debris.
  • Collecting debris from streets, greenbelts, right of ways, underpasses and overpasses within City’s limits.
  • Storing debris in vehicle, and operating equipment to clear streets from debris, transporting debris to collection facilities, maintaining log of materials collected.
  • Documenting actions and procedures as required.
• Assists other departments as needed by:
  • Providing maintenance support to Parks and Recreation, Drainage and Water and Sewer.
  • Completing irrigation repair as necessary and signs, buttons and markings activities.
  • Working on special projects as assigned, and documenting all work completed.
  • Sets up and removes barricades and traffic cones to secure work areas.
  • Assists other public works divisions with maintenance and repair work as needed.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of materials, tools, equipment, safety hazards and precautions for assigned area.
• Knowledge of construction and maintenance techniques and methods.
• Knowledge of traffic control techniques and methods.
• Knowledge of safe work methods and techniques.
• Skill in utilizing a variety of tools and equipment for utility, street and park maintenance.
• Skill in following written and oral instructions.
• Skill in effective oral and written communication.

• Required Education and Experience
• High school diploma/GED supplemented by one (1) year general labor experience.
• An equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provide the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities may be considered.
• License, Certification or Other Special Requirements
• Possess a valid State of Texas Driver License at time of hire.
• NOTE:
  
  Employees hired to work in the Public Works Department will be required to obtain a Texas Commercial Driver License (CDL), Class B or higher within twelve (12) months of hire in order to continue employment.
• NOTE:
  
  All certifications and licenses must be current at time of application and must be maintained as a condition of employment.

• Required Education and Experience
• High school diploma/GED supplemented by two or more years of specialized experience in area assigned (Streets, Water/Wastewater, or Parks Maintenance).
• An equivalent combination of…