Transportation Worker I - Division 1
About The Position
The Transportation Worker I performs preventative maintenance, repair, and construction work on North Carolina roads and roadside features. The role involves operating standard hand tools, power equipment, vehicles, and heavy equipment; inspecting work and maintaining work-zone safety; and participating in snow and ice removal. Duties may include supporting road maintenance and repair projects, paint crews, sign installation, traffic signal maintenance, vegetation control, debris removal, and grass and wildflower installation and maintenance. Work may also involve carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete activities. The position requires work in adverse weather, including snow, ice, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and may involve extended daily hours, weekends, and holidays. Employees work outdoors in extreme environmental conditions and face hazards at highway construction sites, including heavy equipment and traffic. Safety-toe footwear is required. Candidates must be able to legally operate CDL-required vehicles and equipment 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 completing applicable federal requirements within 360 days of hire. The hiring process includes a driver’s license check. Pre-employment drug testing and a post-offer employment evaluation are required. Employment is contingent on successful completion of the evaluation. Candidates must sign forms authorizing checks with previous employers regarding controlled-substance and alcohol testing during the prior three years.
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 satisfy applicable Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations within 360 days of hire.
- Be able to legally 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 permanent residents of adjacent states 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 license within the past ten years or currently holds an out-of-state license.
- Complete pre-employment drug testing and the post-offer employment evaluation, and sign the required release and background statement for prior-employer substance and alcohol testing checks.
- Wear safety-toe footwear.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating power tools such as chainsaws, weed eaters, skill saws, drills, compactors, or jackhammers, and/or 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 used in road and roadside maintenance, repair, and construction.
- Inspect work and help ensure work-zone safety.
- Participate in snow and ice removal.
- Assist with maintenance and repair projects using equipment such as tractors and attachments, curb machines, cutoff saws, dump trucks, rollers, compactors, and mixers.
- Assist paint crews; erect and replace road signs; and assist Electronics Technicians with signal maintenance and installation.
- Operate or assist with equipment and tasks including dump and flatbed trucks, broom tractors, paint-line removal machines, thermoplastic machines, trenchers, and edge-line paint guns.
- Control vegetation, remove debris, push snow, and operate tractors and mowers.
- Assist with grass and wildflower installation and maintenance.
- Assist with carpentry, welding, steel fabrication, or concrete work as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
