Maintenance Technician - Streets

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.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• 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.

MAINTENANCE TECH I

• REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
  1. High school diploma/GED supplemented by one (1) year general labor experience. 
  2. 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:
  1. Possess a valid State of Texas Driver License at time of hire.  
  2. 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.

MAINTENANCE TECH II

• REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
  1. High school diploma/GED supplemented by two or more years of specialized experience in area assigned (Streets, Water/Wastewater, or Parks Maintenance). 
  2. 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:
  1. Possess a valid State of Texas Commercial Driver (CDL), Class B at time of hire or career progression.
• NOTE: All certifications and licenses must be current at time of application and must be maintained as a condition of employment.

MAINTENANCE TECH III

• REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
  1. High school diploma/GED supplemented by five or more years of specialized experience in area assigned (Streets, Water/Wastewater, or Parks Maintenance). 
  2. 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:
  1. Possess a valid State of Texas Commercial Driver (CDL), Class B at time of hire or career progression.
  2. Those assigned to Streets must possess and maintain either:
     • Class D Water Operator License or higher OR 
     • Class I or higher Wastewater Collection License OR 
     • have successfully qualified on performance testing for operation of heavy equipment at the time of hire or career progression.
• NOTE: All certifications and licenses must be current at time of application and must be maintained as a condition of employment.

Environmental Factors and Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Work is performed in an outdoor environment.
• May be subject to bending, reaching, kneeling and lifting. Must be able to lift 50 lbs frequently and up to 100 lbs occasionally.
• May be subject to dangerous machinery, exposure to extreme weather conditions, potential for physical harm, hazardous chemicals and infectious diseases.

Equipment and Tools Utilized:

• Equipment utilized includes City vehicle, backhoe, dump trucks, tractors, mowers, shovels, picks, rakes, brooms, hammers, saws, drills, concrete tools and other construction and maintenance related tools and equipment.

Salary : $43,493 - $65,499