Seasonal Road Ditch Maintenance

Job Summary:
Maintains Renville County highways, rural roads, ditches, and rights-of-way in safe condition.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other responsibilities and duties may be assigned.

• Roadside vegetation control with tractor mower and sprayer.
• Erects and repairs guardrails, highway markers, and snow fences.
• Drives tractor with mower attachment for grass, weed, and brush control; and maintains equipment.
• Picking up litter along roads           
• Weed spraying
• Upkeep of various County Shops and grounds.
• Tree cutting and brush control along County roads using chainsaws, wood chipper and trucks.

Job Relationships:

Internal Interactions With:  Landfill personnel-hauling fill, weed and brush control; Parks personnel – weed and brush control; Auditor’s office – County Ditches and County Property; Sheriff’s office- emergency situations.

External Interactions With:  City and Township officials-weed and brush control; General Public-answer questions, explain roadwork, listen to comments from public.  Frequent complaints and conflicting demands on time and worker required.

Qualification Requirements: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: 

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or two to four years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills: 

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical and Computer Skills: 

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and judge depth and density.

Reasoning Ability: 

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to use independent judgment to analyze a variety of changing conditions and determine the course of action necessary to continue, complete or initiate a wide range of work assignments.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Class A Commercial Driver’s License

Other Skills and Abilities:

Heavy Equipment Experience, preferred.  Ability to operate the equipment described under the duties of the position.  Ability to manage own properties and schedule in area of responsibility, or assigned geographic area.  Ability to deal with confrontations with irate citizens with calmness.  Very visible to public and must be capable of effective interactions with members of the public. 

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; and use hands finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.  The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, talk or hear, and taste or smell.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather conditions of extreme hot or cold.  The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and vibrations.  The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock, plus hazards or traffic conditions.  Flammable, explosive materials, and acids.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud, and constant.

Position will be open until filled.

Hiring range: $15 - $22.66/hour

Salary : $15 - $23