MnDOT
Location
Minnesota | United States
Job description
Highway Maintenance Worker/Snow & Ice – Transportation Generalist (TG)
**This position has a $5,000 Hiring Bonus!
The Minnesota Department of Transportation, Metro District is hiring multiple positions within the Twin Cities Metro area. These positions are responsible for maintaining and reconstructing roadways/roadsides; maintaining traffic barriers; performing bituminous road repairs, cleaning culverts, repairing guardrails; performing preventive maintenance on highway equipment; operating tractor mowers and small rollers; removing objects from roadways; setting up traffic controls in high volume traffic and performing work responsibilities associated with accidents, spill cleanup, rut repair, dead deer, etc.
Additional duties include but are not limited to:
• Performing landscaping duties on roadside (chipping of tree limbs, stump removal/ grinding)
• Conducting rest area maintenance to wayside rests and scale areas (building and grounds maintenance, vegetation control, and parking surface repairs)
• Driving and operating a variety of heavy equipment to perform snow and ice duties, maintaining roadways for snow and ice control which consists of: removing snow from roadways and shoulders; applying anti-icing and de-icing chemicals on stretches of highway under slippery conditions; removing ice and materials from culverts; performing night or dawn patrols; preparing and inspecting winter equipment, such as snowplow equipment, and cutting edges and sanders.
There are multiple locations hiring. Locations with availability left will be discussed at the time of interview.
Please see detailed job description on www.mn.gov/careers for more information on shift differential and night pay.
Transportation Generalist Minimum Qualifications:
• Must be listed on resume type of CDL (A or B). A valid Class B Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with no air brake restriction AND a tanker endorsement.
AND
• Must be listed in detail on resume: One (1) year of experience performing activities in any of the following: snow and ice, soils, road surface maintenance, roadside maintenance, bridge maintenance, signs, or related activities (roadway maintenance, driving commercial vehicles, commercial landscaping, operating heavy equipment or farm experience).
OR
• (Education): Successful completion of a Heavy Equipment Operation and Maintenance Program (of at least 60 semester credits; or 90 quarter credits) will substitute for one year of experience.
• Working knowledge of English sufficient to read, write, speak and understand oral and written information; communicate with employees and the general public in-person or via two-way radio and other electronic devices; and to maintain routine written logs and simple records.
**Veterans may be eligible for a waiver of CDL based on military experience. Please contact your County Veteran Service Officer (http://www.minnesotaveteran.org/cvso/) to obtain a copy of your VMET DD2586.
HOW TO APPLY:
1. Go to www.mn.gov/mmb/careers
2. Click on “Search open positions.”
3. Enter “72694” into the Search for jobs box and click on the arrow button to search
4. Click on the job announcement and then click “Apply for Job” on the top portion of the webpage. You will then be directed to complete the application process and submit your application/resume.
5. Please include your referral source as Other – AASHTO
Contact for Additional Information on applying:
Rene Duffee at [email protected]
Jeannette Peters at [email protected], or 651-234-7421.
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