Concrete Specialist

Job Summary:

The Concrete Specialist performs duties related to the operation of light equipment in the construction, repair, and maintenance of the City’s street, alleys and drainage and installs and repairs City streets, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks.  This position is authorized to drive city vehicles and is considered a safety-sensitive position.

Specific Duties:

• Operates light to moderate equipment in support of a variety of maintenance and construction operations of streets and drainages

• Identifies equipment needs for each assigned project


• Picks up and delivers heavy equipment from construction sites


• Assist in cleaning and performing preventive maintenance on heavy and light equipment


• Installs street barricades and cones prior to the performance of street repair activities


• Directs and controls traffic around work sites


• Waters street and flushes drain


• Assist in grading and crowning City streets, roads and alleys using a motor grader


• Spread, level, and smooth concrete using rake, shovel, hand or power trowel, hand or power screed, and float

• Removes, constructs and finishes concrete on streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks


• Performs other tasks including placing, finishing, protecting and repairing concrete


• Maintains asphalt and concrete roadways and surfaces


• Maintains medians and right of ways for the City of Dayton


• Loads trucks with heavy machinery, mineral aggregates, bulky trash, pipes, and other material or debris

• Shovels dirt, asphalt, trash and debris


• Cleans debris from ditches, culverts, and creek beds


• Bulldozes land as required


• Collects and hauls trash, garbage, debris, dirt, sand, and gravel


• Reads grades and slopes stakes in leveling, surfacing, and rolling roads


• Responds to emergency call-out


• Performs other duties as required


• Assist other departments as necessary 

Essential Functions:

• Ability to  effectively communicate in oral and written communications


• Ability to operate commercial telephones and a two-way radio


• Ability to operate a variety of moderate to heavy power driven equipment


• Ability to read and interpret maps, sketches, drawings, specifications and technical manuals


• Ability to perform duties for extended periods of time in extreme weather


• Ability to maintain a physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities which may include walking, standing, bending or sitting for extended periods of time

• Ability to maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others and operating assigned equipment and vehicles

• Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull moderately heavy objects and materials up to 100 pounds

Required Education, Degrees, Certificates, and/or Licenses:

• High school diploma or GED


• Three years of increasingly responsible experience performing maintenance work involving concrete finishing and the skilled operations of light to moderate construction and maintenance

• Valid Texas Driver’s License