Highway Maintenance Technician I

This Opportunity

Versar Global Solutions is seeking a Full-Time Highway Maintenance Technician I to perform maintenance support for local roadways and highways. Join our team and grow with us as we provide best in-class services that help clients solve their most complex challenges.

Your Impact

• Performs landscape maintenance duties such as mowing, herbicide and fertilizer application, weed control, spring clean-up, fall clean-up, tree trimming, and pruning
• Cleans and grades ditches, storm water drainage structures, highway road shoulders, slopes
• Performs general maintenance duties such as fence repair, sign repair and replacement, and litter and debris removal
• Repairs and replaces guardrail components and attenuators
• Performs concrete structural repair to sidewalks and bridges or overpasses
• Fills and patches asphalt pavement potholes and distresses
• Performs Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) / temporary traffic control
• Provides after-hours emergency incident response during scheduled on-call rotation
• Conducts pre-trip and post-trip inspections
• Performs preventative maintenance on company vehicles or equipment
• Makes minor low-voltage lighting and electrical repairs
• Operates a variety of mechanical equipment such as bed edger, commercial mowers (z-turns and bush hogs), tractors, mini-excavators, skid steers, gators, blowers, dump trailers, chain saws, line trimmers, forklifts, and more
• Drives company trucks, towing trailers and rolling arrow boards if necessary
• Logs maintenance work-order information and checklists manually and electronically
• Loads and unloads equipment, supplies, tools, and material
• Uses all equipment safely
• Performs other duties as required
  

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• 18 years of age
• Must be able to effectively communicate with managers and coworkers in English
• Possess and maintain a valid Driver's License (or obtain within 90 days of hire)
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and carry up to 25 lbs. regularly
• Ability to walk, stand, or sit for extended periods of time
• Possess good oral and written communication skills
• Willingness to work multiple shifts and varying hours, including nights, weekends, and overtime
• Ability to work outdoors in a variety of weather conditions
• Ability to work along local roadways, interstates, and or/highways with commuter traffic passing by at varying rates of speed
• Obtain MOT certificate (coursework and certification paid for by LBS)
• Successful results of pre-employment screenings, including federal background check, MVR, and drug screen
• Must be authorized to work in the US or will be authorized by the successful candidate's start date

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year of experience working in roadway operations, construction, utilities, or landscaping
• Experience operating heavy equipment
• MOT Certified
• Agricultural Pesticide Applicator's License
• Ability to drive manual transmission
• CDL A or B