Transportation Construction Tech

DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION

Be a part of an innovative and collaborative team driving a safer transportation system for Arizona.

4315-TUCSON REGIONAL LAB
621

E. 22nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85713

Salary: $42,

Anticipated hourly: $20.3610 - $27.3416

Grade: 17-19

Closing Date:
July 6, 2026

Employees of the Materials Lab at ADOT ensure roads are compacted to decrease standing water. Technicians and inspectors work together to ensure all road projects comply with ADOT specifications and federal requirements. For a lab technician, being materialistic is all about being in the lab. You’ll receive the materials inspectors collect in the field, and test both according to AZ and AASHTO testing methods.

You’ll be splitting, grading, and sizing soil, various aggregate, and asphalt. This series exists to perform a broad scope of high level transportation duties and/or supervisor responsibility. Serves as a senior technician performing a variety of journey-level work related to highway construction activities.

Note:
Positions will be assigned based on experience and qualifications listed below.

• Transportation Construction Technician 1: $20.36/hr grade 17 – Inspection of work on highway construction projects, techniques to ensure compliance with applicable standards, specifications, and public safety, use of specialized software and Google applications for correspondence/measurements/temperatures/etc., reading and interpreting plans, contract documents, specifications and standard drawings, field tests, sample materials and complete sample transmittals, calculating areas of geometric and irregular shapes, attending safety meetings, partnering meetings, trainings.
• Transportation Construction Technician 2: $22.68/hr grade 18 – Inspection of highway construction to assure compliance, examine materials, surface conditions, tracking, structural features, perform field material tests for quality assurance, inspect and examine engineering project records, field notes, computations, and other documentation, research and interpret MVD Policy, Arizona Revised Statutes, Arizona Administrative Code and regulations, confer with engineers, conformance to specifications and plans, consult manuals, rulebook codes, registry, record all workflow, attend training and safety meetings.
• Transportation Construction Technician 3: $27.34/hr grade 19 – Full journey classification. Responsible for performing a broad scope of high level duties and responsibilities, inspection of highway construction work for compliance, documentation and quantity lists, confer with engineers, conformance to specifications and construction plans, attend meetings and training sessions, perform field tests, consult manuals, specifications, drawings, regulations, record work history and inspect project records.

• Transportation Construction Technician 1: Preferred candidate will have 1 year of job related construction experience, including principles and practices of civil engineering, construction inspection methods, materials testing procedures, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control for work zones, operation of equipment, reading of construction documents, maps and plans.
• Transportation Construction Technician 2: Preferred candidate will have 2 years of job related construction experience, including principles and practices of civil engineering, construction inspection methods, materials testing procedures, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control for work zones, operation of equipment, reading of construction documents, maps and plans.
• Transportation Construction Technician 3: Preferred candidate will have 3 years of job related construction experience, including principles and practices of civil engineering, construction inspection methods, materials testing procedures, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control for work zones, operation of equipment, reading of construction documents, maps and plans.

• Transportation Construction Technician I – One year construction related experience.
• Transportation Construction Technician II – Two years…