General Transp Tech I or II - Cotulla Maintenance Office

General Transp Tech I or II - Cotulla Maintenance Office

Perform 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.

Essential Duties:

• 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.
• Maintains picnic and rest areas, rights‑of‑way, maintenance yards and comfort stations.
• 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 yard 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.
• Assists with inspecting maintenance contract construction methods and workmanship to ensure contractors build and maintain roadways, bridges, traffic signals and related highway structures in accordance with plans and specifications.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Additional duties for General Transportation Tech II:

• Assists in providing support to local law enforcement officials at accident sites; stranded motorists as required.
• Determines placement of traffic control devices and installs/moves devices.
• Inspects routine and non routine maintenance contract construction methods and workmanship.
• Operates heavy equipment such as a front‑end loader‑one and a half cubic yard or more, tractor‑trailer haul truck, large dragline, shovel, paint striper, and dump truck.
• Mows rights‑of‑way and picnic and rest areas; performs plant and landscape maintenance including trimming trees and brush.
• Serves as the only maintenance contract inspector on a small project.
• Identifies, analyzes, and implements solutions for complex maintenance problems.
• 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.
• Reviews plans, enters data and updates, stores and maintains PS&E documents and files.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: No education required.

Experience:

• GTT I:
  No experience required.
• GTT II: 1 year experience.
• Experience must be in transportation engineering support, roadway maintenance, construction inspection, heavy equipment operation, or related work experience. (Experience can be satisfied by full‑time or prorated part‑time equivalent). Related technical training or education from an accredited institution may be substituted for experience on a year per year basis.

Licenses and

Certifications:

• Valid US 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 from date of employment.

Competencies:

General Transportation Tech I competencies:

Some knowledge of:

• Methods, procedures, equipment, and materials used in intermodal transportation engineering construction and maintenance work.
• Applicable inspection methods, procedures and techniques.
• Materials used in…