Transportation Maintenance Crew Chief bei None

Are you ready to lead by example and make a direct impact in your community? TxDOT's Galveston Maintenance Section is seeking a dependable and experienced professional to serve as a Transportation Maintenance Crew Chief, specializing in sign maintenance and herbicide operations.
In this role, you will:

• Supervise and coordinate a maintenance crew in the installation and repair of roadway signs.
• Manage vegetation control through safe and effective herbicide application.
• Ensure roadway visibility and safety for the traveling public.
• Oversee scheduling, equipment management, and crew safety.
• Support additional roadway maintenance activities, including drainage, pavement repair, and traffic control.

If you are a motivated leader who values roadway safety, enjoys outdoor fieldwork, and thrives in a hands-on leadership role, this is your opportunity to make a difference and help keep Texas moving.

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Transportation Maintenance Crew Chief

Leads a crew of transportation maintenance technicians and equipment operators performing skilled transportation maintenance activities. Reports to a maintenance section supervisor and assists in administration of the maintenance section. Work requires responding to emergency notifications on an as-needed basis. Work requires contact with private entities. Employees at this level perform work independently on assignments; however, all unusual issues are referred to the supervisor.

Essential Duties:

• Assists during accidents and emergency weather situations to sand bridges and roads, put up warning signs, and organize the response of crews.
• Assists in administration of the maintenance section.
• Estimates and gathers materials and equipment necessary to complete assignments.
• Inspects roads while en route to and from job site and reports problems to supervisors.
• Maintains records on materials and equipment used and employee time sheets.
• Operates light and heavy equipment.
• Oversees the work of designated maintenance inspectors and sign technicians.
• Performs some maintenance and repair on equipment and trains crew members on the use of equipment.
• Serves as a lead worker by scheduling daily work assignments; serving as a resource for complex questions and troubleshooting of problems; presenting operational updates to the supervisor; providing input on team members’ career conversations; and approving leave requests to ensure operational coverage.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

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Minimum Qualifications:

Education: High School Grad or Equivalent in general education.

Experience: 5 years of experience in roadway maintenance-related work. (Experience can be satisfied by full-time or prorated part-time equivalent). Related college education or relevant technical training may be substituted for experience on a year-by-year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications

Licenses and Certifications:

• • • Valid driver’s license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
    • Must have a Class "A" Commercial Driver's License (CDL) at time of application.

Preferred Qualifications:

Licenses and Certifications: Commercial driver’s license (CDL)

Competencies:

Extensive knowledge of

• • • Methods, procedures, equipment, and materials used in intermodal transportation engineering, construction, and maintenance work

Considerable knowledge of

• • • Incident management procedures
    • Inventory/stock control procedures

Proficient skill in

• • • Leading, assigning, reviewing, and monitoring the work of others
    • Coordinating labor, materials, and equipment 
    • Prioritizing and organizing work assignments
    • Maintaining a safe and effective working relationship with others

Ability to

• • • Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing

Other Attributes

• • • Exercises logic and reasoning to define problems, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; makes decisions that support business objectives and goals
    • Delegates both routine and important tasks and decisions; shares authority but has ultimate accountability

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and/or above 100 degrees for more than one hour
• Subject to noise and vibration
• Subject to hazards-moving vehicles/mechanical parts, high places/heat, or chemicals
• Required to wear protective gear - respirator, hard hat, or other devices
• Medium work: Lift up to 50 lbs. at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 25 lbs.
• Climbing - ascending/descending ladders, stairs, scaffoldings, ramps, etc.
• Stooping - bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist
• Kneeling - bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee(s)
• Crouching - bending body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine
• Crawling - moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
• Reaching - extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Standing - prolonged periods of time
• Walking - moving on foot to accomplish tasks: long distance/from one work site to another
• Lifting - raising objects from a lower to a higher position/horizontally to a different position
• Talking - expressing or exchanging ideas by spoken words
• Close Visual Acuity - work includes data/figures; view a computer screen; extensive reading
• Close Visual Acuity - work includes visual inspection of small defects/parts
• Visual Acuity - operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment
  

Conditions of Employment:
Please click this link to read the standard conditions of employment for all positions: Standard Conditions of Employment (TxDOT)

• This job has been identified as physically demanding and will require a pre-employment physical.
• Must pass a drug test prior to employment for safety impact positions. This is a Safety Impact position and will be subject to random drug testing.
  • Please note that the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulation – 49 CFR Part 40, at 40.151(e) – does not authorize “medical marijuana” under a state law to be a valid medical explanation for a positive drug test result for an employee in this position.
• Must be able to report for duty within 45 minutes of notification on a 24-hour basis to respond to emergency situations.

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TxDOT is committed to hiring veterans. To assist in determining whether your military experience may pertain to the minimum requirements for this position, Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes from each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces have been assigned to each state classification code/title where applicable. The MOS codes are grouped by occupational category. 

To view the MOS codes please click on link below and click on the appropriate occupational category.

https://hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions

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The Texas Department of Transportation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If requested, reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities for any part of the employment process in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Action of 1990.

Please click this link to read the information for applicants: Additional Applicant Information

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