Highway Maintenance Specialist - Crawford (CDL Required)

Highway Maintenance Specialist

Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado. If you have a Colorado Class A or B Commercial Driver's License and are passionate about safety, travel, and hands-on repair and improvements, then consider turning your passions into a career as a Highway Maintenance Specialist. CDOT has a vacancy for a Highway Maintenance Specialist in Crawford, CO.

Total annual compensation for this position is $53,400 ($53,400 base pay). Base pay for this position is $2053.85 biweekly ($53,400 / annually). There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year. The annualized hourly rate for this position is $25.68 hour, with an overtime rate of $38.50 / hour.

CDOT employees make a difference by providing freedom, connection, and experience to the traveling public, while also keeping them safe. The State of Colorado offers competitive medical, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending and health savings accounts. The state also offers PERA retirement, great optional PERA plans such as 401K, a generous paid time off package of annual, sick, holiday and other leave, strong career growth, tuition reimbursement and professional development. Perks include Colorado Employee Assistance Program (CSEAP) counseling, wellness, credit union membership and employee discount program.

CDOT's strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience and ultimately create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socioeconomic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive. The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill current and future vacancies for a period of up to 6 months.

Description of Job

No two days are exactly the same in CDOT highway maintenance. Your daily work activities change based on project needs and also vary based on weather, environment, and road conditions. You will be on-call on a rotating basis and subject to call to respond to weather and other emergencies. You will typically work in a team environment, as each maintenance patrol location has at least one lead highway maintenance specialist and multiple highway maintenance specialists. Your main job activities include :

• Plowing snow
• Operating heavy equipment, such as tandem dump truck, loader, tractor mower, etc.
• Mowing grass and weeds
• Removing debris from roadways, including rock, mud, and deceased animals
• Removing debris from culverts, tunnels, etc.
• Shoveling gravel, sand, concrete, and asphalt
• Digging ditches
• Installing and repairing guardrail, highway markers and signs, warning signs, and lighting
• Filling potholes and roadway cracks
• Setting out signs and cones for traffic control
• Removing and covering graffiti
• Installing pavement markings / striping
• Stopping or slowing traffic in emergency situations
• Maintaining equipment and performing minor repairs
• Following safety guidance and wearing proper safety equipment

Your work is critical to keeping Colorado's roadways open and safe. Your work also positively impacts quality of life for all Coloradans and visitors and helps our economy to thrive.

CDOT provides personal protective equipment, such as uniforms, boots, hard hats, gloves, safety vest, respirator, and tools. Full payment for your CDL physical, after your first year with CDOT. Partial reimbursement (up to 50%) for your CDL renewal, after your first year with CDOT. CPR and first-aid training. Variety of career training opportunities. 40-hour work weeks, with opportunity for overtime during weather emergencies. 4-day work schedule (10-hour days Monday-Thursday) during the summer months, typically May through September. Opportunities to learn new equipment. Opportunities for advancement.

Your work environment includes exposure to loud noise, fumes, odors, gasses, dusts, etc., required to use appropriate personal protective equipment, required to work with chemicals and cleaning products, some equipment requires the use of respirators, work near traffic, sometimes high-speed traffic, use ladders and scissor lifts for heights of approximately 10'20', required to drive CDOT vehicles, frequently respond to emergencies outside regular work hours and may work overtime including weekends and holidays, must be willing and be physically able to work in extreme temperatures (hot and cold), variable weather conditions, and at varying elevations up to 12,000 feet for long periods of time.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Must have at least two (2) years of physical labor and / or heavy equipment operation experience. Preferred qualifications include a strong commitment to working safely, a desire to learn, wanting to work outdoors, liking physically demanding work, taking pride in a job well done, adapting efficiently to changing conditions and priorities, working effectively in a team environment and looking out for team members, communicating effectively, especially in safety-critical situations, having a strong commitment to providing good customer service, liking to solve problems and figure out better ways to do things, having experience operating equipment, such as single and tandem axle dump trucks, front end loaders, bulldozers, backhoes, etc., having experience using hand tools, having basic computer skills and can learn new software / equipment, and years of State service experience related to the duties of this position.

Conditions of employment include possessing and maintaining a valid Commercial Driver's License Class A or B with no restriction on air brakes that allows operation within Colorado, being eligible to drive in Colorado with your CDL at the time of hire, passing a pre-employment screening which may include social security number trace, criminal records check, public court records check, educational records, and driving records checks, passing a controlled substance test (i.e., drug test), and DOT physical through our medical provider, being on-call work, shift work, essential services designation, being required to live within thirty (30) minutes' driving time, new employees are required to take two weeks of maintenance training, veteran CDOT employees are required to take one week of training each year, obtaining a Hazardous Materials endorsement within 6 months to 1 year as a condition of appointment, being willing to respond to emergencies outside regular work hours and work overtime including weekends and holidays, and providing the supervisor with a telephone number where you can be reached for the purposes of responding to an emergency.