Maintenance Technician

Job Title : Road Maintenance Worker

Klickitat County

$54,392.00 - $59,508.80 Annually

White Salmon and Bickleton, WA

Full-Time

Job Number : 2025-00027

Department : Public Works Department

Opening Date : 10 / 02 / 2025

Basic Job Purpose / Function

Performs a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled routine and manual road maintenance and construction work and other related work as required. Operates a variety of hand and power tools and various vehicles and equipment to accomplish work.

Essential Job Duties

• Operates a variety of equipment and tools, such as graders, backhoes, front-end loaders, dump trucks, rollers, snow plows and the like.
• Makes repairs to roadways, roadway shoulders and related structures, such as bridges and guardrails.
• Uses hot and cold asphalt mix to repair chuckholes and roadways.
• Picks up rubbish, debris and dead animals; cleans ditches and culverts by using hand tools; cleans bridges; performs general clean-up work.
• Cuts brush, trees and other vegetation using heavy equipment, chain saw, machete, ax, brush hook and other hand tools; burns brush and weeds.
• Acts as traffic flagger; places traffic cones, signs, barricades and other traffic control devices to insure a smooth flow of traffic; may drive pilot car.
• Conducts ones self in a courteous manner with the public and other employees.
• Subject to rotating mandatory on-call during non-business hours Mondays through Sundays.

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Requirements / Minimum Qualifications

Licenses, Certificates and Other Requirements

Klickitat County offers a generous benefit package which includes : Vacation, sick and paid holiday leave along with medical, dental, vision and life and LTD insurance and substantial County contributions towards premiums and a retirement package through the Washington State Department of Retirement System. Additionally, employees are offered a flexible spending account, two Deferred Compensation programs, voluntary life and LTD insurance, AFLAC coverage and a variety of on-going training programs.