Highway Maintenance Technician

Highway Maintenance Technicians will perform roadway and right-of-way maintenance duties along highways, frontage roads, and public rights-of-way to maintain safe, functional, and well-maintained transportation corridors across municipal and rural areas. This is a hands-on role focused on preserving the safety, accessibility, and functionality of state and county highway infrastructure and roadside assets. Primary responsibilities include mowing grass, trimming and edging vegetation, clearing brush, removing invasive vegetation, and performing vegetation control along roadways and rights-of-way to maintain visibility, safe roadway conditions, and unobstructed access to highway infrastructure such as guardrails, signage, lighting, and drainage structures. Workers may perform wand mowing and brush clearing along highways and frontage roads as part of routine right-of-way maintenance. Workers may also haul and spread materials such as gravel, clay, and asphalt to repair road shoulders and fill washouts, and may perform minor asphalt patching using pneumatic tampers or other hand tools. During the winter season, Highway Maintenance Technicians will perform snow and ice removal activities to maintain safe travel conditions along roadways, shoulders, sidewalks, and other assigned areas. Duties include operating snow blowers, shoveling snow, clearing ice accumulation, and applying salt or sand to improve traction and ensure safe conditions. Workers will stage, monitor, and reple