Thruway Maintenance Worker, Trainee 1,2,3

Responsibilities

• Paving and patching
• Right-of-way maintenance
• Underdrain installation
• Shoulder and slope restoration
• Crack pouring
• Drainage structure repair
• Repair and erection of fences, lighting, guide rails, delineators and signs
• Building temporary structures and chutes for debris removal
• Fabricating and erecting scaffolding, cribbing, staging and shoring
• Performing concrete and steel repairs (including removal of concrete with pneumatic tools and sand blasting steel and concrete)
• Painting and stream channel maintenance
• Operating gasoline and diesel driven construction equipment and vehicles for bridge, highway, and facility operations, maintenance and/or construction activities
• Operating snow and ice control equipment vehicles including front-end loaders, trucks with plows, spreaders, and tractors

Qualifications

• Thruway Maintenance Worker Trainee 1 – 36‑Month Traineeship: Possession of a valid NYS Commercial Driver License Class B Permit with tank endorsement and no air brake restriction.
• Thruway Maintenance Worker Trainee 2 – 24‑Month Traineeship: One year as a Trainee 1 OR possession of a CDL Class B with tank endorsement and no air brake restriction, plus six months experience operating construction equipment vehicles and twelve months experience in carpentry, masonry, welding, ironwork, or other trade related to bridge construction/repair.
• Thruway Maintenance Worker Trainee 3 – 12‑Month Traineeship: One year as a Trainee 2 OR possession of a CDL Class B with tank endorsement and no air brake restriction, plus twelve months experience operating construction equipment and vehicles and eighteen months experience in carpentry, masonry, welding, ironwork, or other trade related to bridge construction/repair.
• Thruway Maintenance Worker – Journey Level: Satisfactory completion of a three‑year Thruway Maintenance Worker Traineeship OR possession of a NYS CDL Class B with tank endorsement and no air brake restriction, plus one year experience operating construction equipment and vehicles and two years experience in carpentry, masonry, ironwork, welding, or other trade related to bridge construction/repair.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Sick leave incentive
• Membership to the NYS Retirement System
• 90% tuition assistance
• FREE onsite employee parking

Pay

• Base Pay: $21.89 – $27.00 per hour
• Geographic Pay: $3.37 per hour
• Trainee 1 starting salary: $25.26 per hour
• Trainee 2 starting salary: $26.87 per hour
• Trainee 3 starting salary: $28.46 per hour
• Journey Level starting salary: $30.37 per hour