Highway Maintenance Specialist - Rangely (CDL Required)

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
• You will follow safety guidance and wear proper safety equipment.

Requirements

• Must have at least two (2) years of physical labor and/or heavy equipment operation experience.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Commercial Driver’s License Class A or B with no restriction on air brakes that allows operation within Colorado.
• If you have a non-Colorado Commercial Driver’s License, you must be eligible to drive in Colorado with your CDL at time of hire.
• Must pass a pre-employment screening which may include social security number trace, criminal records check, public court records check, educational records, and driving records checks.
• May be required to pass a controlled substance test (i.e., drug test), and DOT physical through our medical provider.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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, has experience with equipment, such as single and tandem axle dump trucks, front end loaders, bulldozers, backhoes, etc., has experience with hand tools, has basic computer skills and can learn new software/equipment, has experience with equipment, such as single and tandem axle dump trucks, front end loaders, bulldozers, backhoes, etc., has experience with hand tools, has basic computer skills and 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