Senior Field Technician; Transportation Engineering Technician V

OPEN RECRUITMENT

State Highway Administration

Senior Field Technician (Transportation Engineering Technician V)
Grade 15 (8450) SP# 26-73-07

YOU MUST APPLY ONLINE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION

* Previous Applicants Need Not Apply*

State Highway Administration’s (SHA) Office of Materials Technology is currently recruiting a
Senior Field Technician (Transportation Engineering Technician V) in Anne Arundel County. This position is open to anyone who meets the minimum and selective qualifications listed below by the closing date. This is a position specific recruitment. The resulting list of eligible candidates will be used to fill this vacancy or function only. You will need to reapply for any future recruitment conducted for this job classification.

This position is in the Office of Materials Technology's 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.

MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here: MDOT Benefits Guide

"The State Highway Administration (SHA) has been named Training Magazine’s Awards winner for the seventh consecutive year."

Graduation from a standard high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.

Eight (8) years of experience in technical engineering related work in the areas of design, traffic, construction, materials testing, engineering surveys, maintenance, or planning.

Three (3) years of experience in engineering applications of asphalt mixtures, binders or emulsions.

* This statement contains a selective qualification that is more focused in scope than the minimum qualifications for this classification. Selective qualifications are utilized when the position requires specific or additional bona fide occupational qualifications (i.e., knowledge, skill, or abilities).

1. Applicants may substitute education in a civil engineering curriculum at an accredited college or university at the rate of 30 semester credit hours for each year of the required experience, up to a maximum of three years.

2. Applicants who possess an associate degree in either engineering, construction management or surveying or surveying technology from an accredited community college, college or university are considered to have met two years of the eight-year experience requirement.

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.

• Employees in this role are on-call and must be reachable by phone.
• Employees will be required to work various shifts, and on weekends depending on assignments.
• Employees will be required to travel long distances in Maryland and neighboring states (Asphalt plants that are supplying material for SHA projects).

All applicants must submit an application online at  (use of this option allows the application to be saved). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a…