Job Responsibilities

25%

1. Operates CDL Class A licensed vehicles.

• Operates maintenance trucks, pavement marking equipment, tractors, mowing machines, snowplows, salt spreaders, and other equipment including compressors, generators, post diggers, bucket trucks and other related equipment used in the construction of signs and barricades.
• Washes, greases and conducts minor repairs and preventive maintenance activities of these vehicles and equipment.

20%

20%

3. During snow and ice conditions, assists in snow and ice control.

• Operates snowplows, spreads salt and sand.
• Plows and removes snow.
  

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10%

10%

5. Performs routine housekeeping duties at headquarters.

• Cleans, maintains stockpile of materials.
• Performs other tasks associated with the general care of headquarters.
• Removes and disposes of trash, dead animals and other debris along highways.

5%

6. Maintains job records and reports as required or assigned verbally or in writing

5%

7. Mows grass, removes weeds and brush, loads and unloads vehicles and cleans traffic control signs.

5%

8. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of those enumerated above.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Minimum Qualifications

1. Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four years of high school.
2. Requires possession of a Class "A" CDL with appropriate endorsements, to include X or N and no airbrake restrictions.
3. For seasonal employees only, possession of a Class B CDL with appropriate endorsements, to include X or N and no airbrake restrictions, is acceptable for a period of two years. At the beginning of the third year from the initial hire date, a seasonal employee must possess a Class A CDL.
4. Requires one year driving experience immediately preceding appointment free of incidents which could result in license suspension or revocation.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Prefer experience operating snowplows.
2. Prefer experience maintaining roadways.
3. Prefer experience with maintaining roadsides.

Conditions of Employment

1. Requires successful completion of a background investigation.
2. Requires the ability to perform arduous labor.
3. Requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
4. Requires the ability to work in confined spaces, climb steep terrain, and wade in water.
5. Requires the ability to deal with poisonous plants, animals, insects, rodents, and snakes.
6. Requires the ability to perform outdoor work in a variety of conditions including, but not limited to, hot, cold, wet, windy, muddy, active constructions sites, and roadways open to traffic.
7. Requires the ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
8. Requires the ability to maintain productive working relationships.
9. Operations employees are subject to call at any hour of the day or night on any day of the year.

10. Occasionally, the department is required to respond to emergencies outside normal work hours. As a result, negotiated rate employees are required to work reasonable amounts of overtime when necessary.
11. Any bargaining unit employee who may be required to engage in a call out shall respond to the call as quickly as practicable but in no situation can the response time exceed 45 minutes.

Position Marketing Statement

The Illinois Department of Transportation seeks to hire a Highway Maintainer to perform a variety of maintenance and traffic tasks related to performing maintenance, manufacture and assembly of traffic control devices on state-maintained highways in District 5.