
S060 Intern Maintenance Tech
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Mesquite, TXInternshipSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Performs entry-level, routine maintenance work involving physical labor, including plant and landscape maintenance, upkeep of comfort stations and rights-of-way, minor equipment repair, and assistance with roadway repairs. Work is performed under specific instructions and frequent supervisor review. The role also includes traffic control, light equipment operation, litter removal, basic carpentry, and some clerical duties.
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Performs entry-level and routine maintenance work. Work involves physical labor tasks such as: plant and landscape maintenance, maintenance of comfort stations and rights-of-way, minor equipment repair, and assisting with roadway repair. Employees at this level perform assignments following specific instructions and are subject to frequent review by the immediate supervisor.Essential Duties:Assists in repairing and erecting signs and repairing drums and/or barricades; as required moves items related to these duties.Assists in warehousing and supply functions.Assists with repairs to potholes, roadway shoulders and edges, guardrails, signs, and other related work.Assists with traffic control to include placing and gathering cones, flagging traffic, and other related work.Operates light equipment. (Must be at least 18 years of age and have a valid driver's license.)Maintains picnic and rest areas, rights-of-way, maintenance yards and comfort stations.Move/picks up litter and roadway debris.Performs minor maintenance and repairs on equipment.Performs plant and landscape maintenance including trimming trees, brush and mowing, fertilizing and watering, as required moves items related to these duties.Performs some carpentry work.Performs some clerical duties.Repairs and installs posts and mailbox supports, as required moves items related to these duties.Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 6,859 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$58–79K/yr299 salary ranges
- Texas median$27–35/hr184 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 567 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Texas and 6,859 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (3,753 postings).
- Education
- 29 of the 6,859 open Maintenance Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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