Highway Maintenance Specialist – Fairplay- $500 Housing Stipend (CDL Training Provided w/ Permit)

About the role

This announcement is posted until the position is filled. Applications will be considered as they are received. It's in your best interest to apply early.

Responsibilities

• 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 as well as 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
  • Removing and covering graffiti
  • 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
  • Stopping or slowing traffic in emergency situations
  • Maintaining equipment and performing minor repairs
  • Following safety guidance and wearing proper safety equipment

Qualifications

• Must have at least two (2) years of physical labor and/or heavy equipment operation experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: Strong commitment to working safely, desire to learn, willingness to work outdoors, likes physically demanding work, takes pride in a job well done, adapts efficiently to changing conditions and priorities, works effectively in a team environment and looks out for team members, communicates effectively, especially in safety-critical situations, has experience operating equipment, such as single and tandem axle dump trucks, front end loaders, bulldozers, backhoes, etc., has experience using hand tools, has basic computer skills and can learn new software/equipment, years of State service experience related to the duties of this position.

Benefits

• 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

Schedule

• 4-day work schedule (10-hour days Monday-Thursday) during the summer months, typically May through September

Pay

The annualized hourly rate for this position is $25.93 hour, with an overtime rate of $38.90/hour. Total annual compensation for this position is $59,400 ($53,400 base pay and $6,000 housing stipend).

Base pay for this position is $2,074.62/biweekly ($53,940/annually).