Transportation Worker I - Division 14
About The Position
The Transportation Worker I performs road and roadside maintenance, repair, and construction work 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 maintaining work-zone safety, flagging, assisting with maintenance and repair projects, removing snow and ice, controlling vegetation, and removing debris. Depending on assignment, work may involve operating tractors and attachments, curb machines, cutoff saws, dump trucks, rollers, compactors, mixers, paint equipment, trenchers, and other roadway-maintenance equipment. Employees may assist with road-sign installation, paint crews, signal maintenance and installation, landscaping, carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete work. The position requires work in adverse weather, including snow, ice, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Extended daily hours, weekends, and holidays may be required. Employees may encounter extreme environmental conditions and hazards at highway construction sites, including heavy equipment and traffic. Safety-toe footwear is required. The employee must be able to legally operate equipment and trucks requiring a commercial driver’s license (CDL), with manual and automatic transmissions, either at hire or within 360 days of hire. A current CDL at hire or completion of required on-the-job training and federal requirements within that period is required. The role also requires a qualifying driving record, a pre-employment drug test, and signed releases for checks with previous employers regarding controlled-substance and alcohol testing. Employment is contingent on successfully completing NCDOT’s post-offer employment 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 on the date of hire, or obtain a North Carolina CDL through on-the-job training and meet applicable federal 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 convictions in the past five years.
- Hold a valid, current driver’s license appropriate for the vehicle operated; employees permanently residing in an adjacent state may use a valid, appropriate license from that state.
- Provide driving records from relevant states if the applicant has held an out-of-state driver’s license during the past ten years or currently holds one.
- Complete required pre-employment drug testing and sign forms authorizing checks with previous employers about controlled-substance and alcohol testing for the past three years.
- Successfully complete NCDOT’s post-offer employment evaluation.
- Work in adverse weather and potentially extended daily hours, weekends, and holidays; tolerate environmental and highway work-site hazards.
- Wear safety-toe footwear.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating power tools such as chainsaws, weed eaters, skill saws, drills, compactors, and jackhammers, and/or using small hand tools such as shovels, rakes, brooms, post-hole diggers, hammers, screwdrivers, and torches.
- Experience performing manual labor.
Responsibilities
- Operate hand tools, power equipment, vehicles, and heavy equipment for roadway 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.
- Operate equipment and vehicles used for roadway work, including tractors and attachments, rollers, compactors, dump trucks, paint equipment, and trenchers, as assigned.
- Assist paint crews, erect road signs, and assist electronics technicians with signal maintenance and installation.
- Install and replace signs using hand tools.
- Control vegetation and remove debris; operate mowers and equipment used to push snow.
- Assist with grass and wildflower installation and maintenance.
- Assist with carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete work, as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
