Highway Maintenance Specialist

The Role

Do you want to use your skills to make a difference? Join our hardworking Heppner maintenance crew and help keep Oregon’s roads and travelers safe!

You will operate equipment necessary to maintain and repair roadways, highways, bridges and structures. You will also help with emergency cleanup and traffic control after storms, spills, incidents and more!

What’s In It For You

Work/life balance, 11 paid holidays a year, flexible work schedules, paid leave and so much more.

Learn more about working at the Oregon Department of Transportation and the benefits we offer.

A comprehensive and equitable base salary offer within the listed range.

We may use transferable skills, experience and education to help us decide who will move forward.

Minimum Qualifications

• One year of experience performing basic highway maintenance work;
• OR Two years of general landscaping, maintenance, mechanical, farming, logging, and/or construction experience or training.

Special Qualifications

• This position requires a maximum 60 minute response time to 273 W. Linden Way, Heppner, OR 97836, for emergency call-outs.
• You must possess a current, valid commercial driver's license A (CDL-A) with a tanker endorsement, no air brake restrictions, no 5th wheel restrictions and no manual transmission restrictions, OR have the ability to acquire a class A commercial learner permit within 60 days of hire and a CDL-A with a tanker endorsement and restrictions removed within six months of hire (ODOT will cover training costs).

What We’d Like To See

• If you have these attributes, let us know in your application materials!
• It's how we will choose whom to move forward!
• You do not need to have all these qualities to be eligible for this position.

How To Apply

Complete the following required steps:

• Fill out the application or attach a resume. Please contact the recruiter under the ‘Need help?’ section if you have any questions about how to fill out the experience fields or to attach a document.
• Your submitted experience fields or attached resume must include dates (MM/YYYY) for each employer.
• Complete questionnaire. Answer the checkbox-style questions before submitting your application.
• After you submit your application, please respond to the public records request authorization and gender identity questionnaire. This screen will come after you submit and will complete the process.
• If you are a current State of Oregon employee, the tasks will come to your Workday inbox.
• If you are a veteran or Oregon National Guard servicemember, you may receive preference.
• The task to upload your documents will be available after you submit your application.
• For privacy reasons, please do not attach your military service document(s) to your application or combine it with any other required document attachments.

Additional Information

This recruitment will remain open until filled. Our first application screening is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, 06/24/2026, but we may close the announcement at any time after this date when we have received an adequate number of applications.

We cannot guarantee that we will consider applications received after this screening date.

We encourage interested applicants not to delay in applying.

We do not offer visa sponsorship.

If you are hired, you will be required to fill out the US Department of Homeland Security’s I-9 form confirming you are able to work in the US.

We are not an E-Verify participating employer, and we are unable to proceed if E-Verify participation is required [e.g., STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) Extension].

The State of Oregon does not request or require your age, date of birth, attendance or graduation dates from an education institution during the application process.

We may use this recruitment to fill multiple or future vacancies.

We will conduct name-based criminal background checks on final candidates, not including current ODOT employees.

All applicants may be subject to additional pre-employment check(s) such as driver license, LEDS (Law Enforcement Data System), and/or education verification as required for the position.

You will be represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

ODOT is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or any other class protected by state or federal laws in admission or access to our programs, services, activities, hiring, and employment practices.