Streets Technician II - Arvada, CO

The City is seeking a reliable and skilled · Streets Technician II · to support the maintenance, repair, and installation of street infrastructure, drainage systems, and public right-of-ways. · This hands-on role is essential to keeping City streets safe, accessible, and well mai ...

Job description

The City is seeking a reliable and skilled
Streets Technician II
to support the maintenance, repair, and installation of street infrastructure, drainage systems, and public right-of-ways.

This hands-on role is essential to keeping City streets safe, accessible, and well maintained year-round. Ideal candidates enjoy working outdoors, operating equipment, responding to community needs, and taking pride in work that directly impacts public safety and mobility.

Essential Job Functions

• Assists with traffic signs and markings operations, asphalt patching, concrete work, drainage maintenance, including snow and ice control, and specialized tasks such as sign fabrication and pavement marking application.
• Ensures compliance with safety standards and regulatory requirements, including the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
• Utilizes appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Addresses citizen/customer concerns, escalating complex issues to appropriate personnel.
• Operates, inspects and maintains assigned equipment.
• Responds to after-hour emergencies within 30 minutes for snow and ice control, flooding, or other urgent situations as needed.
• Frequently operates a personal or City-owned motor vehicle to drive to and from work locations throughout the City.

Designated Work Functions include:

• Street Infrastructure Maintenance
  : Maintains streets, drainage ways, and right-of-ways through activities such as snow and ice control operations, asphalt patching, concrete forming and finishing, drainage way maintenance, culvert installation, storm grate maintenance, street sweeping, sidewalk and handicap ramp sweeping, street island cleaning, trash cleanup, mowing operations, string trimmer operations, weed spraying, and dump truck operation.

• Traffic Signs and Markings
  : Designs, fabricates, installs, and maintains traffic signs and specialty signs using a computerized sign fabrication system. Ensures signs meet MUTCD retro-reflectivity and spacing specifications, are free from obstructions, graffiti, stickers, or tree limbs, and are properly aligned. Installs and maintains pavement markings, including centerlines, bike trails, edge lines, crosswalks, and stop bars, using paint, thermoplastic, or tape materials.

• Equipment Operation
  : Operates, inspects, and maintains specialized equipment, including front-end loaders, backhoes, asphalt rollers, concrete saws, hydro-tampers, slope and industrial mowing tractors, truck trailers, forklifts, sidewalk sweepers, skid-steers, portable arrow boards, gas-powered post drivers, hydraulic post pullers, over-the-road paint machines, rolled tape applicators, push tamper carts, parking lot paint stripers, and line eradicators.

Other Job Functions

• Performs shop and yard maintenance.
• Assists in loading and cleaning road marking machines, including handling latex paint, glass beads, water, and fuel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Basic understanding of public works, street infrastructure construction, operation, and maintenance, traffic sign design and pavement marking standards per MUTCD.
• Basic knowledge of equipment used in the maintenance and repair of street infrastructure.
• Basic understanding of materials: asphalt, concrete, tack oil, road base, sand, salt, magnesium chloride, latex paint, glass beads, preformed tape, thermoplastic, and herbicides.
• Basic knowledge of city safety policies and procedures.
• Basic Knowledge of flagging, signing, and coning procedures, and the ability to work safely in heavy traffic work zones.
• Ability to operate and maintain a wide range of equipment, including loaders, backhoes, asphalt rollers, concrete saws, hydro-tampers, mowing tractors, truck trailers, forklifts, skid-steers, sidewalk sweepers, gas-powered post drivers, hydraulic post pullers, paint machines, rolled tape applicators, push tamper carts, parking lot paint stripers, and line eradicators.
• Ability to install and retrieve traffic road tubes, perform manual traffic counts, download traffic counter data, and conduct site distance studies.
• Proficiency in using computer hardware and software for record-keeping, sign fabrication, and operational support.
• Strong ability to adapt and change focus to meet customer needs and operational demands.
• Ability to demonstrate competency in operating the Loader in - loading granular material into a dump truck at time of interview is required.
• Must demonstrate competency on Front End Loader and a
  second
  piece of equipment from the list within the first year of employment. **
• Ability to effectively communicate information, both verbally and in writing, to support organizational objectives and interact with all levels of personnel within the city in a positive and cooperative manner.
• Must be able to operate a motor vehicle.

License & Certification

• Must have or obtain within six months of hire:
• BNSF Railroad Safety Certification.
• Union Pacific Railroad Safety Certification.
• First Aid/CPR/AED.
• Flagger Certification.
• Incident Command System (ICS) ICS-100 Certification.
• Expected to obtain
  34
  hours of approved coursework related to Public Work Construction and Maintenance during the course of employment at this level.
• A valid Colorado CDL Class B drivers license within six months of hire.
• A valid Colorado driver's license and acceptable driving record is required.
• This is a safety sensitive position requiring participation in a pre-employment, for-cause and random drug testing program.

Education Degree

• High School/GED

Education Required

• Yes

Work Experience Related

• General experience in Public Works construction and/or maintenance.

Work Experience Preferred

• Experience in the installation and maintenance of traffic signs and pavement markings.
• Experience operating heavy equipment and vehicles, including tandem axle dump trucks with trailers and snow removal equipment.

Other Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.