Student Highway Maintenance Tech - Snyder, TX

Performs entry-level and routine maintenance work. Work involves physical labor tasks such as: plant and landscape maintenance, maintenance of comfort stations and rights-of-way, minor equipment repair, and assisting with roadway repair. Employees at this level perform assignments following specific instructions and are subject to frequent review by the immediate supervisor.

• Assists in repairing and erecting signs and repairing drums and/or barricades; as required moves items related to these duties.
• Assists in warehousing and supply functions.
• Assists with repairs to potholes, roadway shoulders and edges, guardrails, signs, and other related work.
• Assists with traffic control to include placing and gathering cones, flagging traffic, and other related work.
• Operates light equipment. (Must be at least 18 years of age and have a valid driver’s license.)
• Maintains picnic and rest areas, rights-of-way, maintenance yards and comfort stations.
• Move/picks up litter and roadway debris.
• Performs minor maintenance and repairs on equipment.
• Performs plant and landscape maintenance including trimming trees, brush and mowing, fertilizing and watering, as required moves items related to these duties.
• Performs some carpentry work.
• Performs some clerical duties.
• Repairs and installs posts and mailbox support, as required moves items related to these duties.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

• Education:
  
  Must be a student in high school or other educational institution or accepted into a college, university or educational institution.
• Experience:
  
  No Experience Required (Experience can be satisfied by full‑time or prorated part‑time equivalent)
• Other
  
  Conditions:
  • Must be at least 16 years of age, a student currently enrolled in high school or any institution of higher education to include a trade/vocational school.
  • Employees at least 18 years of age with valid driver’s license may be assigned driving duties and may use power tools.

• Subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather but not temperature changes
• Subject to outside environmental conditions; no effective weather protection
• Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions
• Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and/or above 100 degrees for more than one hour
• Subject to noise
• Subject to vibration
• Subject to hazards-moving vehicles/mechanical parts, high places/heat, or chemicals
• Subject to atmospheric conditions-fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation
• Subject to air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids
• Required to wear protective gear-respirator, hard hat, or other device
• Works frequently in small/crawl spaces; manholes; areas that can cause claustrophobia
• Works in narrow aisles or passageways
• Sedentary work:
  Lift up to 10 lbs. at a time and occasionally carry files/small tools
• Light work:
  Lift up to 20 lbs. at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 10 lbs.
• Medium work:
  Lift up to 50 lbs. at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 25 lbs.
• Climbing – ascending/descending ladders, stairs, scaffoldings, ramps, etc.
• Balancing – walking, standing, crouching on various surfaces without falling
• Stooping – bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee(s)
• Crouching – bending body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine
• Crawling – moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
• Reaching – extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Standing – prolonged periods of time
• Walking – moving on foot to accomplish tasks: long distance/from one work site to another
• Pushing – using upper extremities to press against object with force to move in a direction
• Pulling – using upper extremities to exert force moving objects in a sustained motion
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position/horizontally to a different position
• Fingering – picking, pinching, typing; working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand
• Grasping – applying pressure to an object with fingers and palm
• Feeling – determining size, shape, temperature or texture of objects
• Talking –…