Crew Leader Maintenance - Salem Residency

Title: Crew Leader Maintenance - Salem Residency

State Role Title: Transportation Operator III

Hiring Range: $43,127 - $70,082

Pay Band: 2

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: SW Roanoke County AHQ

Agency Website: www.virginiadot.org/jobs

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

What drives you? Whether it’s knowing the work you do makes a difference, having great work/life balance, working on exciting and challenging projects, leading innovation, and championing change or simply working with a great group of people who are committed to your professional development...At the Virginia Department of Transportation, we have something for YOU!

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is responsible for building, maintaining, and operating the state’s roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries. Through the Commonwealth Transportation Board, it also provides funding for airports, rail, and public transportation. Virginia has the third largest state-maintained highway system in the country covering 58,321 miles of interstate, primary, secondary and frontage roads. VDOT has about 7,500 employees making it one of the largest state agencies in Virginia delivering a program that exceeds $5 Billion.

The Salem District maintains more than 9,200 miles of roads in southwestern Virginia in the counties of: Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Henry, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, and Roanoke. The district serves more than 650,000 citizens in these counties and the 14 cities and towns in its boundaries.

Salem Residency is seeking a motivated Maintenance Crew Leader to work closely with area supervisors to execute varied complex work assignments. The Crew Leader ensures proper work site protection is maintained; Trains and leads crew members in performing manual labor, equipment operation, and following environmental requirements in roadway and roadside maintenance activities; Monitors crew performance on-site and ensures work meets agency standards; maintains manual and electronic records of work performed; and serves as a back-up supervisor as needed.

VDOT is an emergency response agency, and this position is key to fulfilling this agency requirement, and this position will be called upon to work outside of normal work hours during emergency operations such as inclement weather, flooding, and/or traffic incidents.

Minimum Qualifications

• Working knowledge of roadway and roadside maintenance and construction materials, practices and procedures.
• Experience operating light, medium, and heavy-duty equipment
• Basic manual and electronic record keeping skills.
• Ability to oversee and troubleshoot complex work assignments.
• Ability to perform manual labor, including frequent lifting up to 50 lbs., and to use hand and power tools.
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply work zone safety and traffic control manual guidelines.
• Valid Driver's License and ability to travel independently to assigned work locations.
• Ability to obtain CDL and DOT medical card within 11 months of employment and maintain thereafter.
• Ability to work outdoors in inclement weather such as rain, wind, dust, humidity, and in summer heat, and winter cold environs, during and after normal work hours, which can include nights, weekends, and holidays.

Additional Considerations

• Recent experience performing heavy manual labor and operating diverse equipment
• Experience training/leading a crew performing diverse, skilled maintenance activities
• Experience leading emergency response operations
• Experience preparing reports and keeping manual and electronic records
• Experience with VDOT maintenance purchasing and inventory management protocols
• Possesses CDL

Special Instructions

Multiple Crew Leader positions may be filled in the Salem Residency from this recruitment within 90 days of ad's closing date.

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information about qualifications and work history provided by the applicant in the application and/or optional resume’. State applications will only be accepted through online submission through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Job Board/ Recruitment Management System (PAGE UP). PAGE UP provides a confirmation of receipt when your application is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your PAGE UP account to check the status of your application for this position.

If selected as a finalist, you will undergo:
• Employment reference check and work history verification
• DMV Records Check
• Fingerprint-based criminal history records check
• Federal DOT pre-employment physical

Additionally, required for CDL holders:
• Full Query drug and alcohol history in FMCSA Clearinghouse – Register at: FMCSA Clearinghouse.
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening

Safety shoes and other personal protective equipment (PPE) required in performance of job duties.

This position is designated as essential and, as such, all duties associated with this job are required during emergency situations which may include, but are not limited to, inclement weather, disaster response and emergency operations.

Performance of these duties may require work outside of normal business hours including nights, weekends and holidays. VDOT will determine when essential positions are required to report.

VDOT utilizes a market based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.

We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.

Contact Information

Name: Teresa Moody

Phone: 540-266-2661

Email: Teresa.Moody@vdot.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.