Highway Maintenance Specialist (Seasonal)
Transportation Maintenance Specialist 2 – Highway Maintenance Specialist (Seasonal)
Oregon Department of Transportation
Delivery and Operations Division – Region 4
La Pine Maintenance Crew
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The role:
Do you have a maintenance experience and love snowy winters? Our La Pine Maintenance Crew is hiring! The highway maintenance specialist functions as a member of a maintenance crew and performs manual labor and equipment operation to maintain, repair and/or reconstruct roadway/highway, freeway, bridges and/or rest area facilities. If you like exciting work and want to help us to keep Oregon’s roads safe, apply today!
This is a seasonal position that is expected to last approximately five months from date of hire. Seasonal positions are regular status, benefits eligible positions, which occur, terminate and recur periodically or regularly.
We invite members of all diverse communities to join our workforce as we endeavor to best serve Oregonians from every background. ODOT values diversity and inclusion because they are good for Oregon. We believe that by welcoming differences, encouraging new ideas and views, listening to and learning from each other, and providing opportunities for professional enrichment we are better able to serve those around us. We thank you for considering this employment opportunity.
A day in the life:
- Plow snow, sand and deice roadways.
- Provide traffic control for various maintenance operations and roadway emergencies.
- Perform manual labor and operate a variety of heavy and light equipment.
- Repair, replace and maintain roadway surfaces, shoulders and bike paths.
- Repair or replace guardrails, barriers, fences, glare screens, roadway delineators and milepost markers.
- Dig and clean ditches, catch basins and drainage systems.
- Repair culverts, inlets and erosion.
- Maintain rest areas and perform minor building maintenance.
- Spray vegetation using pesticides and herbicides, mow grass and dispose of roadside debris.
- Exposure to noise, adverse weather, dangerous equipment, pesticides, fertilizers and hazardous waste materials is expected.
- Must be able to walk, stand, bend and stoop for extended periods of time and lift up to 50 pounds.
What’s in it for you:
- Work/life balance, 10 paid holidays a year, flexible work schedules, competitive benefits packages and so much more. Click here to learn about working at the Oregon Department of Transportation.
- Live, work and play in Central Oregon!
What we need:
Two years of maintenance and/or construction experience in roadway/highway, bridge, sign, drawbridge or landscape.
AND
Experience in each of the following areas:
- Operating heavy and/or light motorized equipment;
- Using hand and power tools;
- Performing minor servicing of equipment,; AND
- Applying safety procedures.
OR
Two years of experience operating construction and maintenance machinery to include one or more of the following types:
- front-end loader.
- road grader.
- bulldozer.
- backhoe.
- tractor/low-boy.
- 5- or 10- yard dump truck.
Additionally, you will be required to use a commercial motor vehicle to conduct business. You must possess a current, valid commercial driver's license A (CDL-A) with an air brakes endorsement OR a current valid commercial driver’s license B (CDL-B) and the ability to acquire a CDL-A with an air brakes endorsement within six months of hire (ODOT will cover training and costs) to be considered eligible for this position. A valid driver license and an acceptable driving record are required for this position. We will conduct pre-employment driving records checks on our final candidate(s).
What we’d like to see:
If you have these qualities, let us know! It’s how we will choose whom to move forward!
- Experience operating equipment used for snow removal.
- Experience working in an environment where awareness of safety, health or sanitation hazards was a high priority.
Learn more and apply!
This recruitment will close at 11:59 p.m. on 12/1/2020.
Click here to learn more and apply! Please note that we can only accept applications through our website.
Questions? Call 503-931-1206 or email ODOTRecruitmentLB@odot.state.or.us
ODOT is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer