Highway Maintenance Specialist (Limited Duration) (Multiple Positions)

About the role

Do you want to use your skills to make a difference? Join our hardworking Klamath Falls maintenance crew and help keep Oregon’s roads and travelers safe! As part of our team, 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! This is a limited duration appointment that is expected to end on or before June 30, 2027. Limited duration appointments are benefits eligible and have a designated maximum length of service. This position has the potential to become permanent.

Responsibilities

• Operate a variety of heavy and light equipment and tools to maintain and repair various surfaces.
• Assist with weather related emergencies and operate snowplows, deicer trucks and other equipment to clear snow from roadways.
• Perform minor surface repairs including pothole and concrete patching and small inlay work.
• Clear debris, clear brush, mow grass and spray roadside vegetation.
• Maintain and repair fences, guardrails, concrete barriers and milepost markers.
• Maintain drainage systems, dig and clean ditches and repair culverts, inlets and erosion.
• Maintain wooded areas which includes replanting, pruning, thinning or trimming trees, shrubs and groundcover.
• Service and repair tools and motorized equipment.
• Perform minor maintenance including janitorial work, landscaping, painting and light carpentry.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Possess a current, valid commercial driver's license A (CDL‑A) with no air brake restrictions, no 5th wheel restrictions and no manual transmission restrictions.
• Ability to obtain a tanker endorsement within 30 days of hire.
• Valid U.S. driver license and acceptable driving record.
• Maximum 45‑minute response time to 2557 Altamont Drive, Klamath Falls, OR 97603 for emergency call‑outs.

Skills

• Experience in road maintenance, construction or in a maintenance training program (e.g., ODOT High School to Highway program, ODOT/ODF Fire and Ice program, Job Corps).
• Experience using hand tools and operating light and heavy equipment such as tractors, excavators, loaders or dump trucks.
• Experience working on a team.
• Experience working with minimal supervision.
• Experience making decisions during stressful situations.

Benefits

• Work/life balance.
• 11 paid holidays per year.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Paid leave.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness opportunity.
• Limited duration appointment is benefits‑eligible.
• Position represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Pay

Non‑PERS monthly salary range: $4,312 – $5,988. If you are a participating PERS member or become PERS eligible, the salary range increases by 6.95%.

Schedule

Limited duration appointment expected to end on or before June 30, 2027. May require availability after hours, on weekends and holidays for emergency, on‑call and weather‑related purposes. Maximum 45‑minute response time to the Klamath Falls location for emergency call‑outs.