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Transportation Operations Technician II - Temporary

State of Vermont · Bennington, VT · 1 mo ago
Temporary
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; can fold minor metadata into short p or drop it. Must preserve all substantive info; remove boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Must not include duplicated lines. Must not include application instructions (like contact email, apply online). Must not include navigation/cookie etc. We need to parse the posting. Content: Overview: The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is hiring seasonal Transportation Operations Technicians to support highway maintenance and winter operations in Bennington. This hands-on role involves a variety of tasks that keep Vermont's roads safe and reliable, including repairing guardrails, patching pavement, ditching, clearing brush, and picking up litter. Seasonal staff also play a critical role in plowing and salting during winter weather events. Overtime may be required. Who May Apply: This position, Transportation Operations Technician II - Temporary (Job Requisition #55772), is open to all State employees and external applicants. This is a temporary position. Temporary work is typically for variable hours and is not expected to be full-time. The State does not guarantee 40 hours of work per week. If you would like more information about this position, please contact Mark Tice at mark.tice@vermont.gov. Resumes will not be accepted via e-mail. You must apply online to be considered. Environmental Factors: Duties require the ability to withstand exposure to extreme outdoor weather. An incumbent must be available for considerable overtime during heavy snowfall or other emergencies. Employees may be required to report to work outside of their work schedule/ area and must be reachable by phone. An employee must be able to use tools and lift materials commonly used in maintenance work. Normal dangers associated with work on or near heavy equipment, hazardous materials, and debris from roadside litter are present. May be exposed to blood or airborne pathogens. Hazards are always present when working on roads with moving traffic. Participation in a random drug and alcohol-testing program is required. Considerable overtime work is required, particularly during the winter months, and is considered a condition of employment. Minimum Qualifications: One (1) year of work experience in construction, equipment operation, or related manual labor INCLUDING EITHER one season of operating a snowplow with wings OR six (6) months of operating medium or heavy equipment, such as graders, excavators, and backhoes. OR Upon successful completion of original probation as a Transportation Operations Technician I AND possession of a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement. Special Requirements: A Class B Commercial Driver's License (CDL) is required. An incumbent must live within reasonable proximity of assigned workstation. Possession of a Class A Commercial Driver's License with Tanker Endorsement is required within the first six months of employment. An incumbent must complete all VTTC required coursework within one (1) year or be enrolled. CDL Application Requirements: In accordance with federal regulation, any person applying for employment as an operator of a commercial motor vehicle must provide detailed employment information for the past 10 years. Therefore, the Work Experience section of your online application must include: A list of the names and addresses of previous employers for which you were an operator of a commercial motor vehicleThe dates you were employed by these employersThe reason for leaving employment By submitting this online job application, you certify all information furnished is true and complete. The information you provide in accordance with this regulation may be used, and previous employers may be contacted for the purpose of investigating and verifying your work history. Equal Opportunity Employer: ... (boilerplate to remove) We need to produce sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (tasks), Requirements (maybe environmental factors?), Qualifications (minimum qualifications, special requirements, CDL application requirements?), Skills (maybe not explicit), Benefits (none explicit), Pay (none explicit), Schedule (maybe mention variable hours, not guaranteed 40 hrs, overtime may be required, considerable overtime required). We must only include sections if posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections have content. - About the role: Yes, overview paragraph. - Responsibilities: The tasks: repairing guardrails, patching pavement, ditching, clearing brush, picking up litter, plowing and salting during winter weather events. Also mention overtime may be required. Could be considered responsibilities. - Requirements: Could be environmental factors (ability to withstand extreme weather, availability for overtime, reachable by phone, use tools, lift materials, hazards, drug testing). Also maybe "Special Requirements" like CDL B, proximity, etc. But we have Qualifications section for qualifications. Might combine. - Qualifications: Minimum qualifications (1 year experience + either snowplow season or 6 months medium/heavy equipment OR completion of probation as Tech I + Class A CDL with tanker). Special Requirements: Class B CDL required, live within reasonable proximity, possession of Class A CDL with tanker endorsement within first six months, complete VTTC coursework within 1 year or be enrolled. CDL Application Requirements: need to provide 10-year work history details. That's more like application requirement but could be part of Qualifications. - Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe "ability to use tools and lift materials", "ability to withstand extreme weather", "reachable by phone". Could be considered skills but maybe not enough. We could skip Skills if no explicit skill list. - Benefits: Not mentioned. So skip. - Pay: Not mentioned. Skip. - Schedule: Mention temporary work variable hours, not guaranteed 40 hrs per week, overtime may be required, considerable overtime required particularly during winter months. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. Thus we will produce sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Schedule. We must not include headings with filler text. Ensure each heading has substantive content. We need to use

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    for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold minor metadata into short p or drop it. The "Who May Apply" includes job requisition number; we can drop that or put in a short p maybe but it's minor metadata. Probably drop it. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from the posting, but we can reorganize into sections. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, navigation, legal, etc. Also remove application instructions like contact email, apply online, resumes not accepted via email. Also remove "If you would like more information about this position, please contact Mark Tice at mark.tice@vermont.gov." That's application instruction; remove. Also "Resumes will not be accepted via e-mail. You must apply online to be considered." Remove. Also remove "Equal Opportunity Employer" block. Also remove "CDL Application Requirements" maybe not boilerplate but it's substantive; we need to keep that info. It's about providing work history for past 10 years. That's substantive; keep. We must also remove duplicated lines. Check for duplicates: "Considerable overtime work is required, particularly during the winter months, and is considered a condition of employment." appears in Environmental Factors and also maybe elsewhere? It appears only there. Also "Overtime may be required." appears in Overview. That's similar but not duplicate; we can keep both. Now craft HTML. Structure:

    About the role

    The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is hiring seasonal Transportation Operations Technicians to support highway maintenance and winter operations in Bennington. This hands-on role involves a variety of tasks that keep Vermont's roads safe and reliable, including repairing guardrails, patching pavement, ditching, clearing brush, and picking up litter. Seasonal staff also play a critical role in plowing and salting during winter weather events. Overtime may be required.

    Responsibilities

    • Repairing guardrails
    • Patching pavement
    • Ditching
    • Clearing brush
    • Picking up litter
    • Plowing and salting during winter weather events

    Overtime may be required.

    But note we already mentioned overtime may be required in About the role; we could keep it there. However we can also include in Responsibilities. Might be duplicate. Better to keep overtime mention only once. Let's keep in About the role and not repeat. Responsibilities list just tasks.

    Requirements

    Duties require the ability to withstand exposure to extreme outdoor weather. An incumbent must be available for considerable overtime during heavy snowfall or other emergencies. Employees may be required to report to work outside of their work schedule/area and must be reachable by phone. An employee must be able to use tools and lift materials commonly used in maintenance work. Normal dangers associated with work on or near heavy equipment, hazardous materials, and debris from roadside litter are present. May be exposed to blood or airborne pathogens. Hazards are always present when working on roads with moving traffic. Participation in a random drug and alcohol-testing program is required. Considerable overtime work is required, particularly during the winter months, and is considered a condition of employment.

    That seems to capture Environmental Factors.

    Qualifications

    • One (1) year of work experience in construction, equipment operation, or related manual labor, including either:
      • one season of operating a snowplow with wings
      • or six (6) months of operating medium or heavy equipment, such as graders, excavators, and backhoes
    • OR Upon successful completion of original probation as a Transportation Operations Technician I AND possession of a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsement.

    Special Requirements:

    • A Class B Commercial Driver's License (CDL) is required.
    • An incumbent must live within reasonable proximity of assigned workstation.
    • Possession of a Class A Commercial Driver's License with Tanker Endorsement is required within the first six months of employment.
    • An incumbent must complete all VTTC required coursework within one (1) year or be enrolled.

    CDL Application Requirements:

    • Applicants must provide detailed employment information for the past 10 years, including:
      • A list of the names and addresses of previous employers for which you were an operator of a commercial motor vehicle
      • The dates you were employed by these employers
      • The reason for leaving employment
    • By submitting the online job application, you certify all information furnished is true and complete.
    • The information provided may be used, and previous employers may be contacted for the purpose of investigating and verifying your work history.
    But we need to ensure we don't create empty sections. All good.

    Schedule

    This is a temporary position with variable hours; the State does not guarantee 40 hours of work per week. Overtime may be required, and considerable overtime work is required particularly during the winter months.

    We should avoid repeating "considerable overtime work is required..." which we already have in Requirements; but it's okay to mention again in schedule as it's schedule-specific. However we might be duplicating content. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; not to invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is allowed if it's in original? The original had "Considerable overtime work is required, particularly during the winter months, and is considered a condition of employment." in Environmental Factors. Also "Overtime may be required." in Overview. So we have

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