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 such as 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, plus twelve months experience in carpentry, masonry, welding, ironwork, or other trade related to bridge construction or 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, plus eighteen months experience in carpentry, masonry, welding, ironwork, or other trade related to bridge construction or 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, plus two years experience in carpentry, masonry, ironwork, welding, or other trade related to bridge construction or repair.

Benefits

• Extensive benefits package including 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
Traineeship starting salaries:
  • Trainee 1: $25.26/hour
  • Trainee 2: $26.87/hour
  • Trainee 3: $28.46/hour
  • Journey Level: $30.37/hour
For current New York State employees, salary is based on the candidate’s salary at the time of hire.

Eligibility

All potential candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States at the time of appointment and throughout employment. If appointed, you will be required to produce documents verifying identity and authorization to work, as required by the Federal Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the Immigration and Nationality Act. The NYS Thruway Authority does not use eVerify and cannot provide sponsorship for employment visa statuses (e.g., H‑1B, Self‑Sponsorship, STEM OPT).