Transportation Technician

The Department of Transportation is on the lookout for a dedicated Transportation Technician to join our dynamic team. This entry-level role involves carrying out crucial technical duties related to construction inspections. Your efforts will play a key role in ensuring that all construction projects comply with the required codes, plans, standards, and specifications. If you have the right skills and qualifications, we invite you to submit your application today!

In this position, you will be responsible for conducting inspection services to ensure compliance with contract specifications, with a strong emphasis on cost-effectiveness while maintaining high-quality standards. Your role will involve assessing completed work, reviewing unit documentation, and examining materials to verify their alignment with Department policies. You will also assist in managing the District's field construction project records and documentation, playing a key role in initiatives such as the PennDOT Project Collaboration Center, the Electronic Construction Management System, Labor Compliance, and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) efforts. Your duties will encompass inspecting various stages of highway construction, evaluating grades, elevations, and the configuration of roadways and basic structures. Additionally, you will analyze work zone traffic control signs and devices to ensure they adhere to the Work Zone Traffic Control Plan and applicable regulations. You will be tasked with performing essential calculations to verify material consistency, creating sketches, documenting modifications to field plans, and maintaining thorough inspection, progress, and quality control reports. Moreover, you will closely monitor construction activities and material testing to ensure compliance with contract specifications.

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
• You will work closely with vendors and work hours may change based on vendor availability.
• Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time on an ad-hoc basis. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Indiana.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• One year of experience in highway or bridge surveying, design, construction, or inspection work; or
• One year of experience in quality control of materials or building or construction industry experience, which includes reading and interpreting blueprints, plans, or schematics; or
• An equivalent combination of experience and training.

• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency.
• Hiring preference for this vacancy may be given to candidates who live within Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana or Jefferson counties. If no eligible candidates who live within these counties apply for this position, candidates who reside in other counties may be considered.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.

• 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 about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.employment.pa.gov/Additional%20Info/Pages/default.aspx and click the Veterans' Preference tab or contact us at ra-cs-vetpreference@pa.gov.

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

• Completing the application, including all supplemental questions, serves as your exam for this position. No additional exam is required at a test center (also referred to as a written exam).
• 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 or:
  • your score may be lower than deserved.
  • you may be disqualified.
• You may only apply/test once for this posting.
• Your results will be provided via email.