Senior Field Technician; Transportation Engineering Technician V

Nature of Work

This position is in the Office of Materials Technology's (OMT) Asphalt Technology Division and serves as a Quality Assurance (QA) Inspector for the Asphalt Quality Assurance (QA) Program. The position is essential to OMT operations and to Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) as a whole and serves as the on-site OMT representative for all asphalt plant and project acceptance operations. The Senior Field Technician audits, evaluates, and enforces the proper manufacture, shipment, and placement of asphalt mixes statewide.

This role ensures that the asphalt mix accepted for payment in SHA projects complies with complex quality level standards and specifications. The acceptable quality level of asphalt mix is audited, evaluated, and enforced by supervising the complex sampling, testing, and inspection activities performed by the contractor’s Quality Control (QC) Certified Technicians who work at the manufacturing and placement sites. The Senior Field Technician has the authority and responsibility to make independent, on-the-spot decisions regarding material acceptance or rejection, or to mandate immediate corrective action to assure quality of materials.

• Education: Graduation from a standard high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
• Experience: Eight (8) years of experience in technical engineering related work in the areas of design, traffic, construction, materials testing, engineering surveys, maintenance, or planning.
• Selective
  
  Qualification:
  
  Three (3) years of experience in engineering applications of asphalt mixtures, binders or emulsions.
• Licenses &
  
  Certifications:
  
  Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the state of Maryland. Hot Mix Asphalt Plant Level I and Hot Mix Asphalt Field Certifications must be received within one (1) year (or next available class) of assuming the position.