Highway Technician

**Work for Indiana**:
Grow your career with the State of Indiana With more than 50 executive branch agencies, the State of Indiana is a diverse workforce offering employees stimulating and challenging projects across a broad scope of career opportunities. As a State of Indiana employee, you impact the well-being of Indiana’s communities every day.

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**About the Indiana Department of Transportation**:
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) provides a dynamic workplace that serves Indiana citizens, improves our state’s quality of life, and enhances its economic opportunity. INDOT has a number of innovative programs and projects, including Public-Private Partnerships, Green Initiatives, and cutting-edge uses of materials and assets. As part of the State of Indiana, INDOT offers a competitive total compensation package, as well as outstanding work/life balance. Whether you are an established professional in the transportation field or just starting your career, INDOT has exciting and challenging opportunities for you.

**Salary**: This position traditionally starts at an hourly rate of $22.00 an hour. Salary for this position may be commensurate with education and job experience.

**Location**: This position is located in INDOT's Crawfordsville Distict.

**A Day in the Life**:
The essential functions of this roles are as follows:

- Comply with all Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) safety policies and procedures.
- Operate basic highway maintenance/ traffic equipment to maintain, repair and clean highways and rights-of-way.
- Perform winter operations duties including snow and ice removal.
- Perform emergency response activities such as: clean-up, traffic control, bridge closures, lane closures, placement of signs, and erecting barricades.
- Perform regular inspections and routine equipment maintenance such as: minor repairs, preventative maintenance, refueling, and pre-trip inspections.
- Perform job documentation tasks such as entry into the Work Management System (WMS).
- Maintain, repair and install traffic signs, route markers, pavement markings, etc.
- Coordinate work assigned by the Supervisor ensuring that the needed materials and equipment are available.
- Communicate and provide feedback on employee issues to the Supervisor.

These additional duties may be performed depending on the job assignment:
**Asset Inspector**:

- Perform a visual and physical inspection of INDOT owned and maintained assets to evaluate maintenance needs and assign condition rating.
- Operate inspection equipment to determine location, condition rating, and operation of small culvert assets.

**Bridge Maintenance & Repair Specialist**
- Operate basic highway maintenance equipment, specialized bridge repair and inspection equipment for maintenance, repair, and inspection of bridge structures.
- Investigate complaints related to bridges and large culverts and coordinate to ensure follow up action is taken.

**Contracts Inspector**:

- Perform inspections activities and complete the related paperwork on all maintenance contracts.

**Heavy Equipment Operator**:

- Operate various types of heavy and specialized equipment to include, but not limited to; Gradall, Backhoes, Dozers, Vactors, Sweepers, SewerJets, Loaders, Skidsteers, Ag-spreaders, Pavers, Rollers, etc.
- Perform maintenance and repair of light and heavy equipment and hand tools (e.g., dump truck, grader, forklift, tractor-trailer, chain saw).

**Herbicide**:

- Serve as an independent chemical applicator and undertake landscape projects throughout the District.

**Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) Coordinator**:

- Drive Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) bus or other vehicle to transport DOC to and from work locations.
- Oversee and coordinate the work with DOC offenders.

**Shared workforce**:

- May support construction project ensuring compliance with contracts and quality of work being performed.
- Perform sampling procedures for different types of materials.
- May perform and/or assist in aggregate testing and other types of testing such as Indiana Test Methods (ITM).

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

**What You'll Need for Success**:
This person must have the following requirements to be considered for employment:

- High School Diploma or High School Equivalent (HSE).
- Must have valid commercial driver’s license (CDL) or ability to obtain within 90 days.
- Pass and submit to a drug test as a condition of employment.
- General Knowledge of federal, state, and local highway guidelines, laws and regulations, principles, and practices for purposes of construction inspection, testing, maintenance, and r