Streets Supervisor

As a hands-on leader, the Streets Supervisor directs and works alongside maintenance crews to maintain and repair public streets. This role involves overseeing daily operations, training staff, ensuring safety standards, and performing technical tasks related to streets maintenance. The Streets Supervisor plays an important role in keeping roads safe and functional while managing resources and responding to public concerns.

What You’ll Do in This Role:

• Lead and oversee a streets maintenance crew, including training, assigning tasks, reviewing work, and upholding safety procedures and workplace standards.
• Inspect contractor work for compliance with specifications and recommend necessary modifications.
• Plan and coordinate repairs, including designing solutions and ordering necessary parts and supplies.
• Estimate time, materials, and equipment for assigned projects; submit requisitions for materials.
• Maintain operational records and submit reports as needed.
• Operate and train staff on equipment used for street maintenance and repair.
• Perform and oversee concrete and asphalt work, including construction, excavation, patching, sealing, and storm sewer installation.
• Install and maintain street signs in compliance with regulations.
• Paint street markings, including crosswalks, curbs, and traffic control symbols.
• Set up and remove traffic control devices and barricades for work zones.
• Operate heavy equipment, such as Bobcats, dump trucks, backhoes, Vactor trucks, snowplows, front-end loaders, and forklifts.
• Respond to citizen inquiries promptly, inspect reported issues, and direct concerns to the appropriate department.

You Have:

• Experience selecting, supervising, coaching, and leading staff effectively.
• An understanding of occupational hazards, standard safety practices, and federal, state, and local regulations, including Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD) guidelines.
  Skill in operating and maintaining assigned vehicles, tools, and equipment.
• Knowledge of stormwater management, erosion control, and traffic laws.
• Ability to analyze problems, identify solutions, evaluate potential outcomes, and implement effective recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with the public.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent.

What We Can Offer You:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Ample personal time off (PTO) and 11 paid holidays.
• 401(a) retirement plan and optional deferred compensation plan.
• Basic life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Paid Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Free access to the Durango Community Recreation Center and Chapman Hill Ice Rink & Ski Area.
• Holistic Employee Wellness Program, addressing physical, mental, financial, and professional well-being.
• Free transit pass and family member discounts.
• Reimbursement for job-related classes to foster continuous learning.
• Sixteen hours of volunteer time off per year to support local non-profit organizations.

Belong at the City of Durango:

We believe in creating an inclusive workforce that welcomes diversity of thoughts, viewpoints, and experiences.

The City of Durango is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.