Transportation Worker 1 - Division 8
About The Position
The Transportation Worker I performs preventative maintenance, repair, and construction of roads and roadside features for North Carolina’s highway and roadway systems. The work primarily involves operating standard hand tools, power equipment, vehicles, and heavy equipment. Duties may include inspecting work and ensuring work-zone safety, flagging, supporting maintenance and repair projects, assisting paint crews and electronics technicians, installing and replacing signs, controlling vegetation, removing debris, and participating in snow and ice removal. Work may also include carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, concrete activities, and installing or maintaining grass and wildflowers. The position requires work outdoors in adverse weather, including snow, ice, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and may involve extended daily hours, weekends, and holidays. Employees may encounter extreme environmental conditions and hazards from highway traffic and construction equipment. Safety-toe footwear is required. The selected candidate must be able to legally operate CDL-required equipment and trucks with manual and automatic transmissions, either with a current Commercial Driver’s License at hire or by obtaining a North Carolina CDL through on-the-job training and meeting applicable federal requirements within 360 days of hire. Applicants must meet NCDOT driver eligibility standards. Pre-employment drug testing and a post-offer employment evaluation are required. Employment is contingent on successfully completing the evaluation.
Requirements
- High school education, a General Educational Development Diploma, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Possess 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.
- Be legally able to operate CDL-required equipment and trucks with both manual and automatic transmissions at hire or 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 adjacent-state residents may use a current, appropriate license from their state of residence.
- Provide driving records from relevant states if the applicant has held an out-of-state license in the past ten years or currently holds one.
- Complete pre-employment drug testing and sign the required release and background forms permitting checks with previous employers regarding controlled-substance and alcohol testing for 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 chainsaws, weed eaters, skill saws, drills, compactors, or jackhammers, 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 and assist with maintenance and repair projects using tools, vehicles, and equipment such as tractors and attachments, rollers, compactors, trucks, and roadwork machines.
- Assist paint crews and assist Electronics Technicians with signal maintenance and installation.
- Install and replace road signs using hand tools.
- Perform vegetation control, debris removal, snow pushing, and related roadside maintenance.
- Assist with grass and wildflower installation and maintenance.
- Assist with carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete work activities as needed.
- Work during adverse weather and, when necessary, extended daily hours, weekends, and holidays.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
