HIGHWAY FOREMAN 1

WS215 $50,128 - $90,210
Creation Date: 06/29/1987
Change Date: 04/22/2025

FUNCTION OF WORK:
To provide supervision, guidance, logistical support, and limited administration to a group of maintenance personnel maintaining roads, drainage, and bridges within a parish.

LEVEL OF WORK:
Supervisor

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Broad review from a Parish Highway Maintenance Superintendent or other maintenance supervisor of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
Direct line over all parish level Mobile Equipment Operators, Helpers, and Laborers.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from Parish Highway Maintenance Superintendent by lack of responsibility for management of all parish highway maintenance activities.

Differs from other maintenance supervisory jobs by its involvement in and responsibility for highway and road maintenance on the parish level.

Differs from Highway Foreman 2 by its lack of supervision over large groups of personnel performing specialized highway maintenance work (bridge construction, highway marking, striping, truss erection, etc.), district or statewide.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
CORE COMPETENCIES HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED BY STATE CIVIL SERVICE FOR THIS JOB TITLE. MORE INFORMATION ON THE SCS COMPETENCY MODEL CAN BE FOUND HERE.

EXAMPLES OF WORK:
EXAMPLES BELOW ARE A BRIEF SAMPLE OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. NOT ALL POSSIBLE TASKS ARE INCLUDED.

Supervises a crew engaged in repairing and maintaining bridges in an assigned area.

Supervises and directs the activities of a large road and striping crew engaged in applying center line and no passing strips on state highways.

Supervises all fleet operations in an assigned area.

Inspects and supervises the maintenance and repair of levees in a large assigned area.

Instructs subordinate leaders daily as to the site and nature of work.

Plans and supervises the work at a large nursery.

Responsible for the maintenance of buildings, grounds, roads, reservoirs, equipment and pumps.

Supervises all lifting, grading, packing and shipping operations.

Inspects and supervises maintenance and repair of wharfs, sheds, roadways, ramps, and other members of a port involving building new roofs, installing built up roofing; laying new decking; demolishing old structures; building levees; acting as inspector on contract construction or maintenance projects; pouring concrete; placing reinforcing steel; chipping, brushing and scraping, and painting steel under wharfs.

Prepares reports covering such items as equipment and materials used and job costs.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Four years of experience in the construction, maintenance, or repair of roads, bridges, levees, drainage facilities, wharfs, buildings, or grounds; OR

Four years of experience in the operation or maintenance of industrial or heavy mobile equipment.

NOTE:
Experience in any combination of the qualifying fields will be accepted.