Travis County

Road Maintenance Worker I (Cemetery)

Travis County

Austin Texas

Salary: Neg Per Hour




Duties and Responsibilities


  • Assists with indigent burials and cemetery grounds maintenance, as required.
  • Cuts and removes brush, mows grass and weed eats along roadside, and removes safety or health hazards, including dead animal removal and disposal from rights-of-way. Performs general road maintenance labor associated with tasks required to repair roadways and rights-of-way, including mixing and pouring concrete, sealing cracks and patching roads, and cleaning drains and ditches.
  • Removes trash, erects fences and barricades, installs culverts, repairs, and erects signs, places hot or cold asphalt mix, repairs driveway approaches and applies dust control emulsion to roadways.
  • Communicates with employees at all levels and the public to receive and relay factual information and to facilitate public relations.
  • Performs preventative vehicle and equipment minor maintenance and repairs. Checks oil, water, fuel, services tire, makes appropriate adjustments prior to leaving the job site. Maintains mileage and service record on vehicles driven.
  • Maintains accurate daily record of daily activities including time keeping, materials utilized, equipment deployed and other job-related job site issues, inputs data into computer software.
  • Attends meetings, conferences, or other educational classes and participates in training offered by the County and applies information to work assignment.
  • Installs and maintains traffic control signs and asphalt markings and striping in compliance with the state, federal and local laws, codes, regulations, and procedures. Assists in fabricating road signs and barricades for traffic control in road construction
  • Installs, erects, and processes materials associated with roadway and right-of-way maintenance.
  • Provides assistance, as directed, during emergency situations, such as floods, severe weather and accidents.
  • Performs general traffic control at the job site to ensure a safe working environment. Places and gathers traffic control signs and barricades within construction work zones and directs traffic within zone. Observes safety precautions and follows safety rules and regulations.
  • Operates vehicles and equipment associated with roadway and right-of-way maintenance, including but not limited to pickup trucks, tractors, slope mower, mini-excavator, small compactor, woodchipper, skid steer, forklift, lift/bucket truck, hydro mulcher, dump trucks, knuckle boom, tank trucks, loaders/backhoes and rollers.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of


  • Policies, practices, procedures, and methods of assigned function.
  • Applicable safety practices and regulations.
  • Texas Motor Vehicle Code and other codes, laws and statutes relating to assigned function.
  • Light equipment and tools used in road maintenance.
  • Traffic control signs, sign construction and installation, asphalt striping, markings, and legends in compliance with state, federal and local laws, codes, regulations, and procedures.
  • Proper implementation and maintenance of Traffic Control plans as outlined in the Texas Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
  • Operation and maintenance characteristics of basic hand and power tool
  • Computer knowledge to include word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and a variety of software packages.

Skill in


  • Operating a variety of road maintenance light equipment safely.
  • Operating grounds maintenance equipment safely.
  • Operating hand tools.
  • Traffic control sign construction, installation, and maintenance.
  • Working with others, including working as a team member.
  • Both verbal and written communication, including conveying and following instructions and providing information to the public.
  • Maintains important files and records.

Ability to

  • Safely and correctly apply road construction and maintenance techniques.
  • Safely and correctly drive light road maintenance and construction vehicles and equipment.
  • Understand and follow instructions and communicate effectively, as required.
  • Work independently and efficiently.
  • Reason and make sound judgments and decisions.
  • Understand and follow instructions and communicate effectively, as required.
  • Manage time well and meet timelines.
  • Monitor project progress and develop related reports.
  • Train and advise others.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with County employees and officials, representatives of outside agencies, and the general public.

Job Overview

Posted Date: 02 Jan 2024

Location: Austin Texas

Salary: Neg Per Hour

Company Information

The mission of Travis Central Appraisal District, in accordance with the Texas Constitution and the laws of the state, is to provide accurate appraisal of all property in Travis County at one hundred percent market value, equally and uniformly, in a professional, ethical, economical and courteous manner, working to ensure that each taxpayer pays only their fair share of the property tax burden.

Name: Travis County

Web: https://traviscad.org/

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