La Paz County seeks maintenance worker for road upkeep in Parker

A new Maintenance Worker I opening in Parker points directly to the road work that keeps La Paz County moving between Parker, Quartzsite, Bouse and Ehrenberg, especially when heat, monsoon runoff and long distances strain a thinly staffed system.

La Paz County posted the full-time, non-exempt, on-site job on May 28, 2026, with pay listed at $17.57 to $25.44 an hour. The position sits in Public Works and works under indirect guidance from a Maintenance Worker IV, putting the hire into the daily labor that keeps county roads passable for school runs, work trips, medical appointments and emergency travel.

The job description shows how broad that work is. Duties include unloading trucks, flagging traffic, collecting trash, hauling maintenance materials in a two-axle dump truck and operating tractors, rollers, compactors, compressors and jackhammers. The county also lists patching, crack sealing, culvert cleaning, brush cutting, tree trimming and weed spraying. In a county where one washed-out segment or rough shoulder can disrupt a whole travel pattern, those are not minor tasks.

La Paz County’s own Road Maintenance pages say the crew has “varied responsibilities” and that during monsoon season workers are out “at all hours” taking care of flood damage and public safety. Public Works says its mission is to keep “La Paz County roadways safe for everyone,” a statement that carries added weight in a county that spans 4,496.6 square miles but had only 16,557 residents in the 2020 Census.

That gap between land area and population helps explain why road staffing matters so much. Census profile data list La Paz County with 8,959 households, 13,672 housing units, a median household income of $49,478 and an employment rate of 38.4 percent. In that setting, a maintenance worker is not just filling a slot in county government; the job helps determine how reliably residents can reach Parker and how quickly Public Works can respond when desert roads buckle under weather or wear.

The county also says major repairs can require coordination among the Public Works Director, Right-of-Way Agent, Traffic Control Manager and County Surveyor. Some major roads may qualify for federal or state grant funding after analysis of average daily traffic, soil conditions, roadbed conditions and flood-control patterns. That makes the Parker opening part of a larger infrastructure picture, where routine patching, emergency response and long-term road planning all meet on the same stretches of rural pavement.