Asphalt Laborer Jobs in Raleigh, NC (NOW HIRING)

Salary : $53,962.00 - $83,728.00 Annually
Location : 1100 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy., Durham, NC
Job Type: Full time with benefits
Job Number: 26-05973
Department: Environmental & Street Services
Opening Date: 06/12/2026
Closing Date: 9/8/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Position Description
Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.
Hiring Range: $52,903.00 - $82,086.00
Hours: 7:00 am - 3:30 pm (Summer Hours: 6:00 am - 2:30 pm)
Top-notch management, highly qualified, competent staff and opportunities for career advancement and professional success make the City of Durham's Environmental & Street Services Department is a great place to work. Our consistent and steady work environment sets us apart from traditional construction-related worksites, and our exceptional benefits and retirement plans support your long-term success. We create the foundation on which Durham is built, using innovative methods that support the City's growth and enhance our quality of life. We need innovative, highly qualified talent to do that. If growing professionally while serving your community is for you, bring your skills to Durham!
Devoted to maintaining and repairing City property, vehicles, roads and traffic systems, equipment and facilities, providing custodial services, and collecting, transporting and disposing municipal solid and yard waste through the performance of semi-skilled and skilled labor and technical work. Provide specialized paraprofessional and skilled technical maintenance work that requires sufficient subject-matter knowledge and expertise in an assigned field to reconcile and verify the work of others; train others; serve as an escalation point for problem-solving; coordinate processes; implement policies and procedures and provide technical assistance to higher level staff. Decision-making is limited to organizing tasks in more complex operational processes that include coordination of logistics and handling of unanticipated factors within standard policies and procedures to meet established goals. Perform highly technical maintenance work or lead work crews performing basic and complex labor, equipment operation, construction, maintenance, and/or repair tasks.
Responsible for ensuring daily activity logs and reports are correctly completed; assigning work; inspecting work; ensuring quality control; operating complex equipment; and performing the most complex of tasks related to the work assignment.
Duties/Responsibilities

• May perform lead duties including assigning and inspecting work, coordinating safety training, and ensuring quality control and compliance with applicable operations, policies, and procedures.
• Performs the most complex of tasks related to the work assignment; plans, designs, installs, modifies, and/or maintains radio communications network, traffic signal, and other electrical, plumbing, and related systems, equipment, and devices; coordinates tree removal, planting, and pruning operations, and debris loading, hauling, and disposal operations; performs or coordinates carpentry, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, painting, concrete work, welding, masonry and other trades work.
• Operates complex equipment, as assigned, including (but not limited to) aerial lift truck, knuckle boom loader, chipper, chainsaw, crane (boom), and stump grinder.
• Ensures that daily activity logs and reports are correctly completed; monitors inventory; proof work and reviews of the work of others to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Provides customer service; responds customer questions, concerns, and trouble calls; troubleshoots complex issues; and provides information on policies and procedures.
• As assigned, may serve as a lead worker, assigning work and monitoring work completion.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED, HiSet, TASC).
• One year of additional technical training in the area of assignment.
• Four years of equipment operation/driving experience or technical maintenance experience related to assignment.
• Incumbents must complete job related and/or safety training based on assignment, such as (but not limited to) lock out/tag out, confined space entry, ladder safety, CPR, respirator and emergency evacuation training.
• A valid North Carolina Class C Driver's License with a satisfactory driving record is required for facilities maintenance and radio systems assignments that include driving between multiple facilities and/or locations to perform work, transfer equipment or inspect work.
• A valid North Carolina Class A Commercial Driver's License with a satisfactory driving record is required for some crew chief/crew lead assignments.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Ability to proficiently operate asphalt paver, Backhoe, Excavator, Rubber Tire Loader, 10-ton roller.
• Familiar with placement, setting up and finishing of asphalt and use of hand tools required to perform these tasks.
• Experience digging out asphalt cuts.
• Experience loading/unloading heavy equipment onto trailers and towing to designated locations.
• Experience working outdoors in various weather conditions.
• Ability to utilize communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public, and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
• Knowledge of DOT traffic laws and requirements applicable to heavy equipment operation.
• Position designated as a Group 1, meaning it is critical to emergency operations and will report to work in spite of or because of an emergency or disaster event.
• Subject to stand-by/recall and after hours work and work during inclement weather.
• Required to operate service truck and/or dump truck outfitted with plow based upon class of license possessed during winter weather operations.

Benefits - General Full-Time Employees

• 12-13 paid holidays per year
• 13 standard work days of vacation per year
• 13 standard work days of sick leave per year, which accumulates indefinitely; sick leave may be used toward early retirement
• 2 weeks paid military leave per year
• Medical, dental, vision, and supplemental life insurance plans
• State and City retirement plans
• Short and long term disability plans
• Paid temporary disability leave for specified conditions
• City contribution of 13.6% into the N.C. State Retirement System
• Paid funeral leave
• Employee Assistance Program - personal and family counseling
• Paid life insurance equal to annual salary
• 48 hours for volunteer work each year*
• 4 hours parental leave each year
• Workman's Compensation Insurance
• 457 Deferred Compensation Plans

Benefits - Part-Time (1,000 hours or more per year)

• 401(k) retirement plan (5.0% of salary)
• State retirement plan

Benefits Part-Time (Average 30 hours per week over 12 month period)

• 401(k) retirement plan (5.0% of salary)
• State retirement plan effective first day of the month following date of hire
• Health insurance effective first day of the month following date of hire
• Dental and life insurance, after one year of service
• Pro-rated vacation, pro-rated sick, pro-rated floating holiday, parttime holiday pay (based on scheduled hours for that day) after one year of service

01
Where did you first hear about this opportunity?

• City of Durham Website
• Walk in
• Job fair
• Employee referral
• Professional organization ***Please list the organization in "other" box below***
• Internet posting ***Please list the specific web site in the "other" box below***
• Craig's List
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• GlassDoor
• governmentjobs.com
• Monster.com
• Indeed.com
• Employment Security Commission
• Magazine/Newspaper
• Other

02
If you listed "other" above please give specific web site, organization, or publication.
03
Please select your highest level of COMPLETED education.

• Less than a High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)
• High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)
• Associates Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• PhD or Juris Doctorate

04
How many years of experience do you have with related specialized maintenance and/or operating heavy equipment?

• No related experience
• Less than 1 year of related experience
• 1 year but less than 4 years of related experience
• 4 years but less than 6 years of related experience
• 6 or more years of related experience

05
Please indicate which level of valid, unrestricted, CDL (Commercial Driver's License) license you currently possess?

• CDL A license
• CDL B license
• CDL permit
• No CDL license

06
Please select all the types of equipment you are proficient in operating.

• Backhoe
• Excavator
• Rubber Tire Loader
• Jet Vac Truck
• Skid Steer Loader
• Motor Grader
• Dump Trucks
• 10 ton roller
• Paver
• Jumping jack tamper
• Tack kettle
• No experience with any of this equipment

07
This position is classified as Group 1, meaning it is critical to emergency operations and will report to work in spite of or because of an emergency or disaster event. Employees possessing a CDL will be required to operate a dump truck, outfitted, with a snow plow and spreader during snow/ice events which will also require you to work an extended and altered work schedule. Are you willing and able to work under these conditions?

• Yes
• No

08
Are you willing and able to work overtime, as needed with same day notice, to complete projects and assignments?

• Yes
• No

09
Are you willing and able to work an altered schedule based upon weather conditions and work demands with less than 24 hours notice for short and/or extended periods of time?

• Yes
• No

10
Do you have experience loading/unloading heavy equipment onto trailers and towing to designated locations?

• Yes
• No

11
Do you have experience digging out asphalt cuts?

• Yes
• No

12
Do you know the proper depth for digging out asphalt repairs on a State and City road?

• Yes
• No

13
Do you know the process in ordering asphalt material?

• Yes
• No

14
Do you know how to set-up a work zone for asphalt repair?

• Yes
• No

Required Question