Engineering Office Assistant 2
About The Position
The Iowa Department of Transportation's Mission is Making Lives Better Through Transportation. To accomplish our Mission, the person selected for this position will demonstrate actions and behaviors guided by the Iowa Department of Transportation’s five CORE values: Safety First, People Matter, Customer Focused, Servant Leadership, and Integrity Without Exception. This position is located in the Sioux City District 3 office and has shift requirements of 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday, with potential for varying hours and some travel primarily for training or meetings.
Requirements
- Graduation from high school, GED, or equivalency; and A total of five years of full-time experience in highway design, maintenance, construction, or materials; or administrative support in inventory management, training programs, administrative recordkeeping or closely related areas.
- A total of five years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university coursework in any field equals one year of full-time experience.
- Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes eighteen months of full-time work as an Engineering Office Assistant 1 or three years of full-time work experience in highway design, maintenance, construction, or materials.
Responsibilities
- Serves as principal assistant to the District Management Staff, including but not limited to District Engineer, Assistant District Engineer, District Construction Engineer, and District Maintenance Manager.
- Plans, coordinates, and organizes office activities and flows of communications for the District Management Staff.
- Serves as lead worker for other administration staff and coordinates and directs workloads as assigned.
- Maintains confidentiality of privileged and sensitive information.
- Supports District supervisory functions such as performance evaluations, staff actions, out-of-state travel requests, and processing system access.
- Lead person in the district to work with the Office of Purchasing and administer and audit payments.
- Create and maintain databases to be used for analysis, tracking, and monitoring a variety of business functions.
- Develop, maintain, monitor, and track the formal agreements with other state agencies, other states, counties, municipalities.
- Establish and maintain vendor accounts for outside services for the district office.
- Serve as the first contact with the public for inquiries into the services provided or assets that are maintained.
- Operate computer programs such as Workday, Microsoft Office applications, and internally developed software programs.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance
- Insurance benefits start the first month following 30 days of employment
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Paid time off effective immediately - biweekly vacation, separate sick leave, accruals rollover on a yearly basis, and 9 paid holidays per year
- Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS) Retirement Package with employer match
- Optional 401A plan with employer contributions
- Employee Discount Programs from a variety of vendors (vision, cellular, fitness, recreation, season passes, travel, counseling; legal, financial)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
