General Transportation Tech

Overview

Performs routine transportation operations or maintenance support work such as roadway maintenance and repair; light and heavy equipment operation; preventive and minor maintenance on equipment; traffic control; and helping the public during emergency situations. Work requires contact with private entities. Employees at this level follow standard practices that do not require frequent supervision of details.

• Assists in identifying, repairing and installing signs, delineators, mailbox supports and posts; performs basic welding as needed; as required uses/moves equipment/tools, materials and products related to these activities.
• Assists with traffic control; places and gathers cones, warning signs and barricades; flags traffic.
• Determines placement of traffic control devices and installs/moves devices.
• Maintains highways and rights-of-way; performs roadway repairs; erects and repairs guard rails, highway markers and signs; hauls materials and equipment to job sites.
• Move/picks up litter and roadway debris.
• Mows rights-of-way and picnic and rest areas; performs plant and landscape maintenance including trimming trees and brush.
• Operates light equipment such as a front-end loader (one and a quarter cubic yards or less), pneumatic roller, rotary broom, spreader box, backhoe, street sweeper, and mower.
• Performs preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), routine servicing and minor repairs on equipment and completes various required reports including timekeeping, equipment forms, inventory, accident forms, and PMI.
• Sands or cleans bridges and roads, posts warning signs, helps the public and performs other work as directed during emergency situations such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents, and hazardous material spills.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Education: No education required.

Experience: No experience required (Experience can be satisfied by full-time or prorated part-time equivalent)

• Valid driver’s license at the time of application. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
• Must have a Commercial Class "A" Driver's License with an "N" Endorsement or have obtained a CDL "A" License within 120 calendar days from date of employment.
• Currently Military or Veterans: US Military CDL Equivalent Conditions of Employment: US Military License candidates must successfully obtain Texas Class “A” CDL within 120 days of employment. Text:
  This portion may require verification.

• Commercial Driver’s License

• Some knowledge of:
  • Methods, procedures, equipment, and materials used in intermodal transportation engineering construction and maintenance work
  • The Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
  • Maintenance concepts, methods, policies, and requirements
• Some skill in:
  • Using basic mathematical fundamentals
  • Prioritizing and organizing work assignments
  • Using computers and applicable programs, applications, and systems
  • Using applicable hand and power tools, equipment, and mechanical devices of the trade
  • Operating light and heavy highway equipment
  • Maintaining a safe working relationship
• Ability to:
  • Follow verbal and written instructions

• Subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather but not temperature changes
• Subject to outside environmental conditions; no effective weather protection
• Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions
• Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and/or above 100 degrees for more than one hour
• Subject to noise
• Subject to vibration
• Subject to hazards - moving vehicles/mechanical parts, high places/heat, or chemicals
• Subject to atmospheric conditions - fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation
• Subject to air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids
• Required to wear protective gear - respirator, hard hat, or other devices
• Works frequently in small/crawl spaces; manholes; areas that can cause claustrophobia
• Works in narrow aisles or passageways
• Sedentary work:
  Lift up to 10 lbs. at a time and occasionally carry files/small tools
• Light work:
  Lift up to 20 lbs. at a time and frequently…