Transportation Worker I / Division 4
About The Position
The Transportation Worker I performs work involving standard hand tools, power equipment, vehicles, and heavy equipment used to maintain, repair, and construct roads and roadside features in North Carolina’s highway and roadway systems. Duties may include inspecting work and ensuring work-zone safety, flagging, assisting with maintenance and repair projects, removing snow and ice, controlling vegetation, removing debris, and maintaining grass and wildflower installations. The work may also involve assisting paint crews, erecting road signs, helping electronics technicians maintain and install signals, and assisting with carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete work. Equipment and tasks may include operating tractors and attachments, curb machines, cutoff saws, dump and flatbed trucks, rollers and compactors, pulverizer mixers, paint-line removal machines, thermoplastic machines, trenchers, edge-line paint guns, broom tractors, mowers, and hand tools. Employees may work in adverse weather, including snow, ice, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and may have extended workdays or work weekends and holidays. The position involves outdoor extreme environmental conditions and hazards at highway construction sites, including heavy equipment and traffic. Safety-toe footwear is required. The selected candidate must be legally able to operate CDL-required equipment and trucks with manual and automatic transmissions, either by holding a current CDL at hire or obtaining a North Carolina CDL through on-the-job training and meeting applicable federal requirements within 360 days of hire. The hiring process includes a driver-license check. Pre-employment drug testing is required, and employment is contingent on successful completion of the NCDOT post-offer employment evaluation.
Requirements
- High school education, a General Educational Development Diploma, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Be able to legally operate CDL-required equipment and trucks with manual and automatic transmissions at hire or within 360 days of hire.
- Hold a current Commercial Driver’s License at hire, or obtain a North Carolina CDL through on-the-job training and meet applicable Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations requirements within 360 days of hire.
- Meet NCDOT driver eligibility standards: no more than two moving-violation convictions in the past three years and no alcohol- or drug-related traffic-offense convictions in the past five years.
- Have a valid, current driver’s license appropriate for the vehicle operated; qualifying employees permanently residing in an adjacent state may use an appropriate valid license from their state of residence.
- Provide driving records from relevant states if the applicant has held an out-of-state driver’s license in the past ten years or currently holds one.
- Complete pre-employment drug testing and sign the required releases and background statement allowing checks with previous employers for controlled-substance and alcohol testing during the past three years.
- Successfully complete the NCDOT post-offer employment evaluation.
- Wear safety-toe footwear.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating power tools such as a chainsaw, weed eater, skill saw, drill, compactor, or jackhammer, and/or using small hand tools such as shovels, rakes, brooms, post-hole diggers, hammers, screwdrivers, or torches.
- Experience performing manual labor.
Responsibilities
- Operate standard hand tools, power equipment, vehicles, and heavy equipment for road and roadside maintenance, repair, and construction.
- Inspect work and help ensure work-zone safety.
- Flag traffic and assist with maintenance and repair projects.
- Participate in snow and ice removal.
- Assist paint crews, erect road signs, and assist electronics technicians with signal maintenance and installation.
- Perform vegetation control and debris removal, and assist with grass and wildflower installation and maintenance.
- Assist with carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete work when needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
