How do they match: Highway Maintenance Workers

  • Road Builder
  • Road Crew Member
  • Road Maker
  • Road Mender
  • Road Oiler
  • Road Oiling Truck Driver
  • Road Patcher
  • Road Repairer
  • Road Sign Installer
  • Road Worker
  • General Transportation Technician
  • Highway Maintenance Technician
  • Maintenance Technician
  • Quick Technician
  • Traffic Signal Technician
  • Transportation Technician

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
  • Drive heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, remove snow and ice, and spread salt and sand.
  • Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
  • Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
  • Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
  • Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.

  • Operate road-surfacing equipment.