Traffic Control Specialist Trainee

Overview

Create safer travel for communities while preparing you for future advancement! Join the Department of Transportation as a Traffic Control Specialist Trainee and begin a rewarding journey into the field of traffic safety and roadway management. This role provides valuable training that builds your confidence and technical knowledge. You will support important studies and projects that enhance safety and improve traffic flow.

• Training Development: Build technical skill through a structured twelve‑month program focused on traffic problem analysis.
• Data Analysis: Analyze traffic data and prepare clear presentations for traffic studies.
• Safety Evaluation: Review study results and form recommendations that support safer and more efficient travel.
• Project Participation: Assist with tasks such as data collection, analysis and report writing for projects of growing complexity.
• Quality Review: Check work carefully to ensure accuracy, sound reasoning and completeness.

• Full‑time employment.
• Work hours are 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday‑Friday, with a 30‑minute lunch break.
• Telework:
  You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part‑time, up to 3 days per week. Telework requires a securely configured high‑speed internet connection and an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you may report to the headquarters office in Clearfield. The ability to telework is subject to change.
• Salary:
  In some cases, the starting salary may be non‑negotiable.
• Further communication regarding this position will be sent via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Applicants must meet the educational and experience requirements described below.

• One year of experience as a Traffic Control Technician (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title), or
• Four years of experience performing transportation engineering technical assignments such as traffic data collection, traffic studies, pavement marking program oversight, highway sign or pavement marking surveys, traffic signal inspection, materials sampling, testing, or inspection, construction inspection, bridge inspection, survey work, utility relocation, roadway programs management, or roadway materials control; and graduation from high school; or
• Two years of experience in transportation engineering technical assignments and an Associate’s Degree in mathematics, statistics, or civil engineering technology; or
• A Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics, statistics, civil engineering technology, or a closely related field; or
• An equivalent combination of experience and training.
• Applicants who are within three months of graduating with a qualifying degree will be considered to have met the educational requirements.

• Must meet the Pennsylvania residency requirement. For more information, refer to the Residency Guidelines.
• Must be able to perform essential job functions.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. § 7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more, visit www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.

• 911 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law.

All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.

• Completing the application, including all supplemental questions, serves as the exam for this position. No additional exam is required at a test center.
• Your score is based on the detailed information you provide on your application and in response to the supplemental questions.
• Your score is valid for this specific posting only.
• You must provide complete and accurate information. If your score may be lower than deserved or you may be disqualified, we urge you to provide full and accurate details.
• You may only apply and test once for this posting.
• Your results will be provided via email.

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.