Roadway Maintenance Supervisor - Salem Residency

Title: Roadway Maintenance Supervisor - Salem Residency

State Role Title: Maintenance Supervisor

Hiring Range: $47,828 - $77,721

Pay Band: 2

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: New Castle 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.

A Maintenance Supervisor's day to day duties include supervision of the AHQ work crews while performing diverse roadway/roadside maintenance activities and equipment operations; help develop schedules and assist with management of the area’s emergency operations and safety programs to include work zone traffic controls and set-up; develop and monitor individual training programs; conduct performance evaluations; investigate customer inquiries and identify solutions; maintain work accomplishment records and project documentation.
This position’s physical requirements include the ability to lift and move up to 50 lbs. frequently, standing, walking and sitting frequently, climbing ladders, maneuvering on uneven terrain, stooping, crawling, kneeling, bending, pushing and pulling occasionally.

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

•Considerable knowledge of roadway/roadside maintenance materials, methods and procedures.
•Ability to perform diverse manual labor tasks in diverse environmental conditions using hand-held and power tools.
•Ability to supervise, train, document counseling sessions, and evaluate personnel.
•Ability to plan work schedules and identify and assign manpower, materials and equipment needed to accomplish the job.
•Knowledge of inventory practices.
•Knowledge of safety policies, procedures and programs.
•Possess basic PC skills; Able to prepare administrative paperwork and reports.
•Valid driver's license and ability to travel independently to assigned work locations required.
•Ability to obtain valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and DOT medical card within 11 months of employment and maintain thereafter.

Additional Considerations

•Experience leading the work of and training others in diverse/complex highway maintenance operations and techniques; includes recent experience performing heavy manual labor.
•Experience leading emergency operations such as snow removal, storm damage and accident clean up.
•Experience supervising and evaluating personnel.
•DCR Erosion and Sediment Control certification.
•CDL.

Special Instructions

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/PageUp. PageUp provides a confirmation of receipt when your application is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your PageUp account to check the status of your application for this position.

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

Multiple Maintenance Supervisor positions may be filled from this recruitment within the Salem Residency which covers Salem, Roanoke, Botetourt, and Craig Counties.

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.