Road Maintenance and Landfill Equipment Operator (Payson / Landfill)

Roads Maintenance Worker

The purpose of this position is to perform semi-skilled work in the construction, repair and maintenance of roads, right-of-ways, auxiliary structures, and secondary roads; operate various types of construction equipment in accordance with safety regulations and procedures. Ensures the safe operations of recycling and landfill; weighs vehicles, directs traffic and assists customers at the landfill. Operates trucks, performs cleaning duties and trains new employees. The employee will be assigned to the Roads Division or the Recycling & Landfill Division and will be asked to work in either division as required on a temporary basis.

This position does not supervise other employees.

Essential duties and responsibilities include :

• Operates road construction and maintenance equipment including front end loaders, backhoes, bulldozers, motor graders, paving machines, street sweepers, transfer trucks and compactors, in accordance with all safety regulations and procedures; and landfill equipment, water truck for dust control, compactor, scraper, bulldozer, and loader for piling solid waste and maintain lifts as required. Ensures compliance with safety and environmental regulations applicable to solid waste disposal.
• Grades roads, paves roads, replace asphalt, patches and repairs roads, clean roadways and sweeps streets. Maintains ditches and culverts including removing debris from ditches, installing culverts and ensuring the efficient flow of culverts. Moves dirt at landfill operations according to precise regulations; plans land and slope grades for safe equipment operation and builds refuse lifts.
• Coordinates Department of Corrections inmate work detail.
• Performs manual labor assignments as needed, including fire control, accident and hazardous materials cleanup, guardrail and foliage maintenance and debris removal; cuts and removes brush and trees impacting roadways as required; assists landfill customers to unload refuse safely, and separates recyclable products at the landfill.
• Follows safety regulations on all work zone and flagging sites, including placing barricades and cones; landfill liner leakage testing, waste oil barrel cleaning, freon removal from appliances, recycle battery storage and waste tire program; performs emergency road services in relation to fires, floods and roadway inspection.
• Hauls materials and transports vehicles and equipment to jobsites using various trucks and transporters.
• Inspects, cleans and performs routine operational check on trucks and heavy equipment. Reports necessary repairs.
• Performs traffic control activities including setting up signs and flagging traffic; directing traffic at landfill.
• May perform emergency road services in relation to snow removal, flood damage repair, rockslides, and fires.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

This position has no responsibility over any types of budget. This position provides project coordination support for road maintenance and landfill maintenance projects. This position may train colleagues. This position creates or edits documents, internal memos, timesheets and reports.

Interacts regularly with internal coworkers and other departmental personnel over the telephone, by email, and / or in person. Incidental contact with the public may occur as part of the work location. Regularly (More than 55% but less than 70% in a year) interacts specifically with customers.

Minimum education required is a high school diploma or GED. Minimum years of directly related experience required is two (2) years' experience in road construction and maintenance and operation of related equipment; or two (2) years' experience in landfill operations; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Must possess and maintain a valid Driver's License. Within three (3) months of employment, the written portion of the Commercial Driver's License (CDL) testing must be completed. By the end of nine (9) months, a valid Arizona Class A CDL must be obtained.

Knowledge required includes customer and personal service; excavation; grading; compaction; traffic control procedures; landfill safety operations and handling of hazardous materials. Skills required include skills necessary to perform semi-skilled road construction and maintenance activities and operating heavy equipment, machinery and vehicles. Critical thinking; problem solving; analyzing operations; troubleshooting and time management. Abilities required include performing moderately heavy manual labor, safely operate heavy road construction equipment and vehicles; conduct traffic control activities; provides emergency road services in relation to flooding, fires, rockslides and heavy snow; inspect and maintain construction equipment and vehicles; lead and train other personnel. Read and write minimum high school level; solve problems using inductive reasoning; make sense of multiple information; speak clearly and sensibly and maintain calm demeanor in stressful situations.

Physical demands include occasionally standing to direct traffic, to complete tasks and to attend to reported incidents. Regularly sitting to complete reports, routinely sitting to operate special equipment. May be required to lift work related materials, equipment, and tools of more than 75 lbs. in weight. Regularly requires dexterity for special gadgets and special machines. Incumbents in this position may be required to routinely walk to and from work sites, occasionally bend, stoop, crawl, kneel and routinely twist.

Work environment includes performing work at external construction areas : new and maintained County roads, easements, water ways and County landfills.

Safety risk exposure includes exposure to verbal abuse by customers, or citizens; individuals with high level of emotional distress; physical danger, mechanical hazards, chemical hazards; electrical hazards; bloodborne pathogens and communicable diseases; fire hazards; explosives, respiratory hazards; extreme temperature; noise and vibration; and wetness and humidity.

Protective gear & safety manuals include following written safety procedures and manuals relevant to the division or department; constantly requires safety foot wear, hearing protection devices, eye protection devices and hard hat.

Consequences of error include potential errors that can result in unfavorable public perceptions and legal ramifications.