Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road or plow snow from roadway.

Other names for Highway Maintenance Workers: Caltrans Equipment Operator, Caltrans Landscape Maintenance Worker, Equipment Operator (EO), Heavy Equipment Operator, Highway Maintainer, Highway Maintenance Crew Worker, Highway Maintenance Technician, Highway Maintenance Worker, Highway Worker, Hot Oiler, Lane Marker Installer, Material Handler, Materials Handling Equipment Operator, Oil Spreader Operator, Patrolman, Road Builder, Road Maker, Road Mender, Road Oiler, Road Oiling Truck Driver, Road Patcher, Road Repairer, Road Sign Installer, Road Worker, Snow Plow Operator, Street Worker, Transportation Maintenance Operator, Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS), Transportation Worker, Truck Driver,

• Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
• Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
• Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
• Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
• Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
• Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
• Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
• Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
• Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
• Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
• Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
• Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
• Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
• Drive trucks or tractors with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, and remove snow and ice.
• Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
• Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
• Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
• Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.

• All terrain cranes
• Dump trucks
• Graders
• Earthmoving buckets or its parts or accessories
• Rollers
• Dump trucks
• Aggregate spreaders
• Air compressors
• Road surface heater planers
• Wheel loaders
• Dump trucks
• Agricultural tractors
• Bituminous material distributors
• Conventional truck cranes
• Power chippers
• Articulating boom lift
• Wheel bulldozers
• Axes
• Drain or pipe cleaning equipment
• Power saws
• Sprayers
• Articulating boom lift
• Chip Spreaders
• Circuit tester
• Cold planers
• Compactors
• Sprayers
• Road rooters
• Concrete mixers or plants
• Vibratory plates
• Power saws
• Drain or pipe cleaning equipment
• Desktop computers
• Derricks
• Ditchers
• Draglines
• Dump trucks
• Hand sprayers
• Flatbed trailers
• Forklifts
• Front end loaders
• Front end loaders
• Cargo trucks
• Gas generators
• Track excavators
• Graders
• Lasers
• Hammers
• Harrows
• Delivery trucks
• Hydraulic pumps
• Post hole digger
• Track excavators
• Aggregate spreaders
• Impact wrenches
• Pneumatic hammer
• Laser printers
• Road pavers
• Light trucks or sport utility vehicles
• Flatbed trailers
• Machetes
• Measuring wheels for distance
• Hydraulic pumps
• Paving breaker tools or accessories
• Mud pumps
• Vacuum cleaners
• Burners
• Paint sprayers
• Paint mixers
• Hydraulic pumps
• Rollers
• Paving breakers
• Grouting machines
• Rollers
• Personal computers
• Picks
• Pile drivers
• Platform lift
• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Tampers
• Paving breakers
• Scrubbing machines
• Power saws
• Concrete spreaders
• Pressure or steam cleaners
• Road pavers
• Mowers
• Rakes
• Mowers
• Mowers
• Rock cutters
• Hand held rock drills
• Snowplow attachments
• Aggregate spreaders
• Pneumatic sanding machines
• Scaffolding
• Scissor lift
• Screwdrivers
• Seeder attachment
• All terrain cranes
• Road wideners
• Scrubbing machines
• Drain or pipe cleaning equipment
• Drain or pipe cleaning equipment
• Shovels
• Track bulldozers
• Mowers
• Bridge cranes
• Snow blowers
• Snowplow attachments
• Spades
• Pressure or steam cleaners
• Aggregate spreaders
• Blades or tooth or other cutting edges
• Theodolites
• Scaffolding
• Hammers
• Non temperature controlled tanker trailers
• Bituminous material distributors
• Kettle exchangers
• Paint sprayers
• Safety chains
• Barricades
• Disks
• Mowers
• Delivery trucks
• Low cab forward tractors
• Conventional truck cranes
• Mobile excavators
• Paint sprayers
• Two way radios
• Front end loaders
• Minivans or vans
• Water pumps
• Water trucks
• Weeders
• Welding tools
• Hydraulic truck cranes
• Bituminous material distributors
• Adjustable wrenches

Office suite software

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Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Internet browser software

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