Road Maintenance Worker I (Cemetery)

Are you looking for career opportunities that provide top-notch benefits including paid vacation and sick leave, parental leave, outstanding health, vision, and dental insurance, a free health clinic for you and your dependents, a generous retirement plan, and much more? Then bring your talents to Travis County!

This position is assigned at the Travis County indigent cemetery and performs functions such as digging graves using a backhoe, mini excavator, and hand tools as well as replacing sod and cleanup sites in preparation for burial services and setting up a lowering device. This position also prepares the outdoor areas for funerals including placing chairs and handling the casket. This position is also responsible for the maintaining two cemetery grounds including such tasks as trimming trees; weed eating around structures; and removing dead, or faded flowers, leaves, and other debris from graves and fences. Will also need to assist with the enforcement of the cemetery rules and guidelines.

• Assists with indigent burials and cemetery grounds maintenance, as required.
• Cuts and removes brush, mows grass and weed eats along roadside, and removes safety or health hazards, including dead animal removal and disposal from rights-of-way. Performs general Road Maintenance labor associated with tasks required to repair roadways and rights-of-way, including mixing and pouring concrete, sealing cracks and patching roads, and cleaning drains and ditches.
• Removes trash, erects fences and barricades, installs culverts, repairs, and erects signs, places hot or cold asphalt mix, repairs driveway approaches and applies dust control emulsion to roadways.
• Communicates with employees at all levels and the public to receive and relay factual information and to facilitate public relations.
• Performs preventative vehicle and equipment minor maintenance and repairs. Checks oil, water, fuel, services tire, makes appropriate adjustments prior to leaving the job site. Maintains mileage and service record on vehicles driven.
• Maintains accurate daily record of daily activities including time keeping, materials utilized, equipment deployed and other job-related job site issues, inputs data into computer software.
• Attends meetings, conferences, or other educational classes and participates in training offered by the County and applies information to work assignment.
• Installs and maintains traffic control signs and asphalt markings and striping in compliance with the state, federal and local laws, codes, regulations, and procedures. Assists in fabricating road signs and barricades for traffic control in road construction
• Installs, erects, and processes materials associated with roadway and right-of-way maintenance.
• Provides assistance, as directed, during emergency situations, such as floods, severe weather and accidents.
• Performs general traffic control at the job site to ensure a safe working environment. Places and gathers traffic control signs and barricades within construction work zones and directs traffic within zone. Observes safety precautions and follows safety rules and regulations.
• Operates vehicles and equipment associated with roadway and right-of-way maintenance, including but not limited to pickup trucks, tractors, slope mower, mini-excavator, small compactor, woodchipper, skid steer, forklift, lift/bucket truck, hydro mulcher, dump trucks, knuckle boom, tank trucks, loaders/backhoes and rollers.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:
One (1) year of construction and general maintenance experience including landscaping work or traffic control device fabrication and sign installation and maintenance;
OR,
Any combination of education and experience that has been achieved and is equivalent to the stated education and experience and required knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this job.
Licenses, Registrations, Certifications, or Special Requirements:
Valid Texas Driver's License.
Valid Texas Commercial Driver's License (CDL).
Preferred:
High School diploma or G.E.D.
Class A Texas Commercial Driver's License.
Tank Vehicle (N) Endorsement.
Work Zone Flagger Training certificate and/ or Work Zone Traffic Control Instruction certificate or related type certificate.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:

• Policies, practices, procedures, and methods of assigned function.
• Applicable safety practices and regulations.
• Texas Motor Vehicle Code and other codes, laws and statutes relating to assigned function.
• Light equipment and tools used in Road Maintenance.
• Traffic control signs, sign construction and installation, asphalt striping, markings, and legends in compliance with state, federal and local laws, codes, regulations, and procedures.
• Proper implementation and maintenance of Traffic Control plans as outlined in the Texas Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
• Operation and maintenance characteristics of basic hand and power tool
• Computer knowledge to include word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and a variety of software packages.

Skill in:

• Operating a variety of Road Maintenance light equipment safely.
• Operating grounds maintenance equipment safely.
• Operating hand tools.
• Traffic control sign construction, installation, and maintenance.
• Working with others, including working as a team member.
• Both verbal and written communication, including conveying and following instructions and providing information to the public.
• Maintains important files and records.

Ability to:

• Safely and correctly apply road construction and maintenance techniques.
• Safely and correctly drive light Road Maintenance and construction vehicles and equipment.
• Understand and follow instructions and communicate effectively, as required.
• Work independently and efficiently.
• Reason and make sound judgments and decisions.
• Understand and follow instructions and communicate effectively, as required.
• Manage time well and meet timelines.
• Monitor project progress and develop related reports.
• Train and advise others.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with County employees and officials, representatives of outside agencies, and the general public.

Physical requirements include the ability to lift/carry up to 50 pounds, visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity. Subject to standing, sitting, walking, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, pushing, pulling, reaching, twisting, balancing, repetitive motion, driving, client/customer contact, and squatting to perform the essential functions. Subject to extreme temperatures, outside elements, noise, vibration, contact with dust, fumes and hazardous chemicals, foul odors, animal and human fecal matter, insects and rodents.
Travis County employees play an important role in business continuity. As such, employees can be assigned to business continuity efforts outside of normal job functions.
This job description is intended to be generic in nature. It is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The essential duties, functions and responsibilities and overtime eligibility may vary based on the specific tasks assigned to the position.

Commercial Driver's License and Drug Test Required.Employment Type: Full Time