Job description
Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.
Salary:
$46,523.72 - $72,111.77
Job Description:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description
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Job Title: Road Technician 3
Department: Roads & Bridges
Pay Grade: 306
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
JOB SUMMARY
The primary function of this position is to perform all related repairs and/or maintenance to county roads, bridges, and rights-of-way using a variety of machines, tools, equipment.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Assist in road, bridge repair and shoulder work using various equipment, asphalt, concrete, or other materials.
- Cut brush and move chip debris off rights-of-way.
- Use mow-trim, blower, rake, machete, chain saw, pole saw, buzz-bar, and chipper
- Mow grass, cut brush off rights-of-way.
- Dig trenches and drains, vacuum storm drains, clean injection wells.
- Clean up construction debris and work areas, pick up and remove trash.
- Repair and replace damaged or destroyed guard rails.
- Patch asphalt.
- Weed eat around signs and guard rails.
- Trim and cut trees.
- Check and maintain tools and equipment periodically to ensure proper safe operation.
- Perform general maintenance for county yard and equipment.
- Assist in creating signs for all county roadways
- Assist in providing Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) in work areas.
- Drive county vehicles, transport equipment, and operate equipment in a safe manner.
- Maintain ALL required qualifications, licenses, and certificates.
- Complete appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.
- Keep work area clean and organized and use safety cones and signage when required.
- Attend required training and safety meetings and use appropriate safety equipment.
- Stripe roadway repaint stop bars and crosswalks
- Work extended hours during hurricanes, county emergencies and other natural disasters, ON CALL during hurricane season.
- Perform other related job duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
High School Diploma or GED. 3 years minimum of prior related work experience.
Special Qualifications:
Minimum requirement of valid Florida Commercial Driver’s License Class “B” with Air Brake Endorsement. Acquire TTC/IMOT Certification within 6 months of hire date. Position is subject to the mandatory Department of Transportation Drug Testing Program which involves random drug testing. This is a Safety Sensitive Position.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to work from a general outline of duties and responsibilities.
- Ability to perform technical or trades-based work that requires a solid understanding of the use of heavy equipment. Some of the tasks performed include participating in data collection and detailed analysis; reporting on the accomplishment of specific departmental goals and tasks; OR operating or repairing heavy equipment (bulldozers, cranes, graders).
- Ability to work in a responsive environment where co-workers or citizens bring problems for resolution.
- Ability to determine problems and create individual solutions for issues.
- Ability to work with less than ten co-workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work demand is medium and requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
- Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
- Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely in English.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly in English.
- Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in an environment with heavy equipment and machinery that could result in bodily harm to co-workers or others.
Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.
E.O.E.
Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability or military service in employment or the provision of services.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.
Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género,
religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.
Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.
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