Highway Maintenance Supervisor - Beatty

The Nevada Department of Transportation is recruiting for a Highway Maintenance Supervisor
1. This position is located within District 1, Beatty, on Crew 123. Incumbents function as first-line supervisors who train, supervise, and evaluate the performance of assigned staff; assign and review work; and initiate disciplinary action. Incumbents manage maintenance crews responsible for conducting summer betterment projects and winter incident management, road maintenance, preservation, flood control and cleanup, snow removal, and winter anti-icing/de-icing as policy requires;

plan, coordinate, monitor, and inspect routine maintenance activities and major betterment projects; coordinate equipment, material, and resource needs; monitor work progress and productivity of maintenance crews including preparing, reviewing, and evaluating reports to track productivity, costs, resources, and equipment usage. The incumbent will also work with department staff to identify upcoming betterment needs; participate in betterment reviews; and assist in preparing budget estimates and project planning charts for upcoming maintenance seasons.

This position will assist district leadership with personnel issues and provide training, support, and guidance in employee evaluations and disciplinary actions. The incumbent will also assist maintenance personnel by responding to emergency situations from traffic control for all incidents, both natural and manmade, to removing debris in the travel lanes, or similar unplanned events that require an immediate response to protect the public.

When these events occur, maintenance personnel are called out 24 hours a day in order to promptly alleviate, or at least warn the driving public of, the condition.

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Highway Maintenance Supervisors supervise skilled and semi-skilled personnel engaged in restoring roadway surfaces and restoring or constructing slopes, shoulders, culverts, structures, fixtures and landscaping located on the roadside or right-of-way; oversee and inspect work performed in an assigned geographical area of a district, or while implementing a specialty maintenance program such as highway landscaping, highway signs and lighting, or pavement marking and striping.

Graduation from high school or equivalent education and one year of experience as lead worker of a highway maintenance crew which included assigning and overseeing the work of lower level personnel, providing input on performance evaluations and assisting the supervisor in laying out a variety of roadway or specialty maintenance work; OR graduation from high school or equivalent education and two years of experience as a Highway Maintenance Worker III in Nevada State service;

OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Plan and schedule work; purchase materials; schedule equipment for both routine highway maintenance activities and district betterment program; operate equipment as necessary to ensure that scheduled work is completed. Identify roadway deficiencies in assigned area; estimate materials and production time and provide project justification; determine personnel, maintenance and equipment needs and assign tasks to subordinate personnel; identify abnormal conditions in the roadway or right-of-way and take action to either adequately warn the public or correct the condition.

Review engineering blueprints, schematics and standard plans and reference federal, State, local, and departmental procedures and regulations affecting highway maintenance.

Oversee the work of a specialty crew engaged in maintaining highway/freeway lighting and both ground mounted and overhead signs; pavement striping and marking; and highway landscaped areas.

Train, supervise and evaluate the performance of assigned highway maintenance staff; establish work performance standards and initiate disciplinary action as appropriate.

Prepare and submit required reports to track productivity, unit costs, stockpile and equipment usage, training, vehicle…