Location
Greeley, CO | United States
Job description
Department Information
This position is only open to Colorado state residents. The position is covered by the Partnership Agreement between the State of Colorado and Colorado Workers for Innovative and New Solutions (COWins).
New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.
About CDOT Do you want to make a difference in Coloradans’ lives? Do you have a passion for helping people and keeping them safe? At the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), you’ll have the opportunity to do just that. The work our people do contributes to keeping Coloradans and visitors safe and provides freedom, connection, and experience through travel. Please visit our careers page to learn about CDOT and how we are making Colorado a great place to live, work and play, now and for the future! Also, check out our excellent benefits package!
CDOT for All CDOT’s strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience, and ultimately, create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socio-economic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive.
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Description Of Job About the Work Unit CDOT’s Region Four, Permit Unit preserves and improves the functional integrity of the highway transportation system, to protect the public health through safety and welfare. This is done by maintaining smooth traffic flow through the region-wide planning, administration, management, monitoring and enforcement of federal guidelines, state statutes, CDOT regulations specifically related to access management practices, project utility clearance, devolution oversight outdoor advertising control, and utility installation oversight.
About The Position Under the guidance of the Permits Manager, the Assistant Access Manager position will learn to administer the Colorado Department of Transportation's access management program in Region Four. This position learns to review requests for access and analyze proposals for conformance with regulations and standards using sound engineering, safety, and planning principles. Position will learn to resolve access planning and design issues with land developers, their consultants, attorneys, local government officials, and CDOT staff. This position learns to appropriately disseminate information, concepts and purposes of the access program and standards to local officials and private interests.
The duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following: - Learn to to represent CDOT in negotiating for the resolution of highway access proposals, by tailoring each to fit a particular location or situation;
- Learn to negotiate and administer capital improvement projects and learn to evaluate design waivers for permits and assist both land developers and CDOT staff in the processing of design waivers;
- Learn to enforce compliance with terms and conditions by available legal means;
- Assist with planning and managing access projects from conceptual scoping stage through design and construction phases;
- Learn to administer the Outdoor Advertising & Junkyard Programs for Region 4 and provide secondary permit writing support of Utility/Special Use permits processed by the region;
- Train to assist reviewing complex land use development plans;
- Train to become a Region resource in access management, possessing a level of expertise in the field and profession;
- Trains to advise the Region staff and provides technical guidance and direction on agency access policies;
- Train to verify the installation and construction of permitted accesses and assist in delegating inspection duties to appropriate CDOT personnel, or to outside licensed professionals;
- Assist in the administration of the Utility/Special Use program;
- Train to assist in formulating special terms and conditions for the issuance of each individual utility/special use permit based upon evaluation and collaboration with staff and legal counsel;
- Assist in authorizing utility/special use permit to fully define the responsibilities of the Permittee, and to define the final access product;
- Train to strategize requirements for medium and simple access permit application submittals;
- Works with Statewide Outdooring Advertising Coordinator to complete yearly inventory of all permitted billboards in Region 4;
- Other duties as assigned
Work Environment: - Your schedule will primarily be 8:00 am – 5:00 pm work hours, Monday-Friday
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights Minimum Qualifications (Administrator I)
Annual Salary-$46,092.00 - $53,004.00 Bachelor’s degree in urban, city, regional, or transportation planning, land use/development, engineering, engineering technology, business, public administration, or a field closely related to the major job duties.
Minimum Qualifications (Administrator II)
Annual Salary-$48,396.00 - $55,644.00 Five (5) years of professional experience where the primary job function was performing urban, city, regional, transportation planning; land/community development; access/permitting; highway transportation engineering design experience; or similar planning or permitting experience.
OR Bachelor’s degree in urban, city, regional, or transportation planning, land use/development, engineering, engineering technology, business, public administration, communications, public relations, journalism (and related writing degrees) or a field closely related to the major job duties.
AND One (1) year of professional experience where the primary job function was performing urban, city, regional, transportation planning; land/community development; access/permitting; highway transportation engineering design experience; or similar planning or permitting experience.
Substitution A Master's or Doctorate degree in one of the fields of study listed above will substitute for the experience.
College Transcripts: If you are using education to qualify via the substitution, a legible copy of your official or unofficial college transcript(s) or a foreign credential evaluation report must be submitted with your application. Transcripts must show the name of the school and that a degree was conferred. Transcripts from colleges or universities outside of the United States must be assessed for U.S. equivalency by a NACES educational credential evaluation service. Failure to provide a transcript or foreign credential evaluation report may result in your application being rejected and you will not be able to continue in the selection process for this position.
Conditions of Employment - Must pass a pre-employment screening which may include social security number trace, criminal records check, public court records check, educational records, and driving records checks. More information in the supplemental information section
Preferred Qualifications The
exceptional applicant will possess the proven ability or accomplishment in the following:
- Demonstrated success with the duties listed in the Description of the Job section;
- Years of State service experience related to the duties of this position;
- Highest work/personal ethics and integrity;
- Genuine desire to serve the public. Enjoys working with people. No assignment or task is too small;
- Familiarity with 43-2-147 Colorado Revised Statutes and the State Highway Access Code;
- Strong ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, and regulations;
- Excellent writing skills and ability to develop official correspondence and reports for use by technical professionals and the lay public;
- Excellent oral communication skills including skill and ability to provide presentations to groups and to speak confidently;
- Experience and skill training others;
- Ability to partner with professionals, staff, consultants and other governmental staff, with sensitivity to their needs and priorities;
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship building, and negotiation skills;
- Ability to take initiative to solve problems in an innovative manner;
- Proven ability to manage multiple assignments, priorities, and projects in a demanding environment;
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and decision making skills;
- Strong customer service skills;
- Ability to operate in a politically sensitive environment;
- Strong planning, organizational, prioritizing, time and project management skills and experience;
- Strong attention to technical detail and accuracy;
- Passion for safety;
- Working effectively in both independent and team situations;
- Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Word, Excel), SAP, Gmail, ProjectWise, Salesforce and ability to quickly learn other software systems.
Supplemental Information Applicant Checklist Complete Applications Must Include The Following Documents - A complete CDOT Application for Announced Vacancy (please submit online using the green 'APPLY' button at the top of this announcement)
- A complete Supplemental Questionnaire (The questionnaire is part of the online application. You will be prompted to answer them as you are completing your online application.)
- A cover letter that describes your interest in this position, how your experience aligns with the minimum and preferred qualifications of this position. Cover letters must be uploaded as an attachment to your online application. Cover letters will not be accepted after the closing date and time of the announcement.
- A chronological resume
- If you are using education to qualify, a copy of your official or unofficial transcript showing that your degree has been conferred and the name of your school, or your NACES accreditation. Please submit this as an attachment to your online application.
- If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214. Please submit this as an attachment to your online application.
Only complete applications submitted by the closing date for this announcement will be given consideration. Every effort must be made to submit all application materials by the announcement close date. Where unusual circumstances prevent timely acquisition of transcripts, they must be submitted within five business days of the announcement close date. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Failure to submit properly completed documents by the closing date of this announcement may result in your application being rejected.
Notifications All correspondence regarding your status in the selection/examination process will be via email. Include your current working email address on your application and check your email frequently as you could receive time sensitive correspondence regarding this position. We highly recommend that you set up your email to accept messages from " state.co.us " and "
[email protected] " addresses. It is your responsibility to ensure that your email will accept these notices and/or review your junk mail and spam filtered email. Immediately after you submit your application you should receive an email that confirms that you successfully submitted an application for this position. If you do not, try submitting again until you receive the confirmation email. Be sure to also check your junk folder for email communications from the State of Colorado's website.
The Hiring Process - All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the minimum qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications proceed to the next step.
- Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted based on merit and fitness through a comparative analysis process.
- Part, or all, of the comparative analysis for this position may be a structured application review, which involves a review of the information you submit in your application materials by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) against the preferred qualifications.
- Be sure your application materials specifically address your qualifications, experience, work products, and accomplishments as they relate to the Major Duties, Minimum Qualifications, and Preferred Qualifications sections as listed above. Failure to include adequate information or follow instructions by the deadline for application may result in your application not being accepted for this position and may affect your inclusion as a qualified candidate in any step of the selection process and placement on the eligible list.
- A top group, up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.
Transfer, Non-Disciplinary Demotion or Reinstatement If you believe that you are eligible to be considered as a transfer, non-disciplinary demotion, or reinstatement to this vacancy, you must submit a completed application following the directions in this job announcement and you will be included in the selection process along with other qualified applicants. If you are the finalist for this position after the selection process, Human Resources will confirm your eligibility to be appointed as a transfer, non-disciplinary demotion, or reinstatement applicant.
Employment Screening If an applicant reaches the finalist stage of the hiring process, the Colorado Department of Transportation may procure a consumer report and/or investigative consumer report on the applicant in connection with his/her application for employment purposes, as defined under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. These reports may be obtained at any time after receipt of the applicant's authorization. As part of the employment screening an applicant will be requested to disclose any deferred judgments and convictions as well an explanation of the circumstances around any arrest or conviction. In the event that a screening returns information that the applicant believes is not accurate, he or she will have an opportunity to dispute the information with “Info Cubic”.
Info Cubic, a consumer reporting agency, will obtain the report for CDOT. Further information regarding Info Cubic, LLC, including its privacy policy, may be found online at . Info Cubic is located at 116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 206, Englewood, CO 80112, and can be reached at 877.360.4636 .
The report may contain information bearing on the applicant's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living. The information that may be included in the report includes: social security number trace, criminal records check, public court records checks, educational records, and driving records checks . CDOT will only request credit reports insofar as they relate to the position for which the applicant is applying. The information contained in the report will be obtained from private and/or public record sources. The applicant will have the right, upon written request made within a reasonable time after receipt of a notice, to request disclosure of the nature and scope of any investigative consumer report.
Appeal Rights If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director. An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (
[email protected] ), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action. For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board go to spb.colorado.gov ; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at 303.866.3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1,State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.
Discrimination and/or harassment against any person is prohibited because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran’s status, marital status, gender identity or any other protected class recognized under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA). This applies to all employment decisions.
ADAAA Accommodations CDOT is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability as defined by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to Angelita Sims at
[email protected] or 303-757-9225.
Former State Employees Former employees of the Colorado Department of Transportation System or any other State of Colorado Department or Agency, who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination, must disclose this information on his/her application.
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