Occupational Employment Statistics
47-4051 Highway Maintenance Workers
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. Excludes “Tree Trimmers and Pruners" (37-3013).
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Southwest Minnesota
| 590 | 45 | $27.28/hr | $23.13/hr | $24.79/hr | $28.25/hr | $29.75/hr | $31.40/hr |
| Construction | 120 | $26.43/hr |
| Professional and Business Services | N/A | N/A |
| Public Administration | 4,230 | $28.25/hr |
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- 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.
- 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.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
- Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
- Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.