Transportation Equipment Operator I

Salary: $25.37 - $30.69 Hourly
Location : Lincoln, NE
Job Type: Full time/probationary or status
Job Number: 202500743
Department: Transportation & Utilities Department
Division: Transportation Operations & Maintenance
Opening Date: 12/09/2025
Closing Date: 12/21/2025 11:59 PM Central

Job Posting Information
Are you skilled with heavy equipment and motivated by work that keeps your city moving? Transportation Maintenance & Operations, a division of Lincoln Transportation and Utilities (LTU) - the City of Lincoln's largest department, is seeking a dependable and safety-minded Transportation Equipment Operator Ito join our team This position involves the safe and skilled operation of heavy and light-weight equipment including automotive equipment, backhoes, frontend loaders, grinders, street sweepers, snow equipment, and power tools used in the daily maintenance and repair of the public infrastructure.
In this key role, you'll help maintain and repair essential public infrastructure, lead crews in the field, and ensure safe, reliable operations for our community.

What You'll Do

• Operate a variety of equipment to maintain and repair streets and public rights-of-way.
• Lead crews of laborers and seasonal staff to complete daily assignments safely and efficiently.
• Perform manual labor tasks (pushing, pulling, lifting) and drive trucks hauling equipment or materials.
• Maintain safe worksites, complete daily reports, and assist supervisors with scheduling and priorities.
• Respond to emergencies, severe weather, and on-call assignments, operating equipment and clearing debris.
• Inspect, clean, and perform minor repairs on assigned equipment to keep it in top condition.

*This Safety Sensitive position is subject to mandatory drug testing policies as a condition of employment.

Locations:
1 Vacancy -Southeast District; 3180 South St - Concrete Crew

Hours:
Regular Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Subject to OT during emergencies.
Summer Schedule (Memorial Day to Labor Day): Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (may vary based on seasonal needs)

Why Join Us?

• CDL Training Opportunity: Whether you're an internal candidate or new to our organization, we offer training to help you obtain your Commercial Driver's License (CDL). We're committed to your growth and career advancement.
• Impactful Work: Contribute to important public works projects that enhance our community.
• Supportive Environment: Work with a team that values collaboration and excellence.

Qualifications

• Graduation from high school or equivalent
• Six months of experience in the operation of trucks and construction equipment heavier than pleasure vehicles or pickup trucks
• Six months of experience in general construction activities

Any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the desirable knowledge, abilities and skills may be considered.

Necessary Special Requirements

• Valid driver's license
• Valid commercial driver's license (CDL) and endorsements are required or the ability to obtain within 90 days of appointment.

If you currently have a CDL, prior to being hired for this position you will be required to register with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse at: https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register

The Lincoln Transportation and Utilities (LTU) team provides transit, transportation and utilities services year-round to the citizens of Lincoln. Nearly 600 team members make up LTU. We fuel the importance of building relationships within our divisions and department and with our community partners. We value our team's forward-thinking attitude and pride ourselves on good stewardship of our environment. We celebrate our individual strengths that in turn take our teams to new levels of accomplishment. We commit ourselves to offering additional training opportunities and a variety of paths for professional job growth. Our teammates enjoy benefits that include, but are not limited to, a retirement match, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and health, dental, and vision plans. Join the largest department at the City of Lincoln today. We are excited to enhance our community's quality of life together.
We value each City of Lincoln employee and one way we demonstrate this is by providing an attractive and competitive total compensation package that adds value to our employees' professional and personal lives. The following benefits are available for this position:

• Pay increases are available upon completion of the 6-month new employee probationary period, and annually thereafter based on performance.

• We encourage a healthy work-life balance by offering 10 days of vacation leave, over 12 days of sick leave, 11 paid holidays, and 2 personal convenience days annually that you begin accruing upon hire.

• All medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family begin the first of the month following hire, no need to wait

• 30 days of Paid Parental Leave

• Employee Assistance Programs offering work/life services, wellness coaching, short-term counseling, legal assistance, and financial coaching.

• 5 days of Funeral and Bereavement Leave

• $71,000 of Life Insurance

• $1,213 of Tuition Reimbursement

• 401(a) Retirement Plan. If you make a 7% contribution, the City will contribute 9%

• Employer provided Post Employment Health Plan for eligible medical expenses for after you leave City employment.

• Optional benefits include:
  • Medical and/or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Allstate Voluntary Plans
  • Supplemental Term Life
  • Deferred Compensation Plans

01

APPLICATION COMPLETION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTTo successfully complete your application, please make sure you read each statement below and check ALL boxes prior to submission.

• 1. This application is hand scored.
• 2. ALL questions must be fully answered to receive full credit.
• 3. "See Resume", or answers such as "See ___" are not acceptable responses and will not receive full credit.
• 4. Copied/Pasted answers will not receive full credit.
• 5. ALL employers and education referred to in answers must be listed in the Work History and Education sections of the application for verification and to receive full credit.
• 6. I understand I am responsible for the accuracy and completeness of my application.
• I Acknowledge that I have read and understand each of the above statements.

02

Are you a current, regular employee of the City of Lincoln?

• Yes
• No

03

If yes, please provide your department and division name, title, and date of hire. If not, enter N/A.
04

Do you have experience in the operation of trucks and construction equipment heavier than pleasure vehicles or pick-up trucks?

• No experience
• Yes, less than 6 months experience
• Yes, 6 months to 2 years experience
• Yes, 2 to 4 years experience
• Yes, more than 4 years experience

05

If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
06

If yes, please describe your work duties including the types of equipment.
07

Do you have experience in general construction activities?

• No experience
• Yes, less than 6 months experience
• Yes, 6 months to 2 years experience
• Yes, more than 2 years experience

08

If yes, please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
09

If yes, please describe your work duties.
10

Indicate if you have PAID WORK experience in the following (check all applicable):

• Paving and street maintenance.
• Operating various types of light to medium duty equipment in the performance of routine street maintenance.
• Operating light to medium duty equipment, which is moderately complex and technical in nature, during emergencies or disasters.
• Supervising a small work crew.
• Assisting with placement and removal of guardrail and bridge railing.
• Repair and maintenance of asphalt and concrete.
• Ground maintenance.
• Storm sewer maintenance.
• No experience

11

Please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
12

Please indicate if you have PAID WORK experience operating the following equipment (check all applicable):

• Tractor - light to medium daily
• Dump truck
• Front-end loaders
• Snow removal equipment
• Lodal
• Vac-all
• Duals
• 90 pound jack hammer
• Compressors
• Compactors
• Mowing equipment (medium to large)
• None

13

If you checked any of the equipment for the above question please list the employers from your application where you acquired this experience.
14

I understand, as a condition of my employment for the position for which I am applying with the City of Lincoln/Lancaster County, that I must at all times be legally licensed to operate a motor vehicle. I understand state law requires operators possessing a driver's license from another state must obtain a valid Nebraska driver's license within 30 days of change of residence. Further, I understand that I must notify my immediate supervisor the next working day following a motor vehicle conviction which results in loss, revoked, impounded or suspension of my driver's license. Further, I understand that this document is an official City/County record, and that falsification of this document, or failure to properly notify the City/County of driving convictions or loss of driving privileges will result in discipline, up to and including termination. This applies any time driving privileges are revoked, suspended or limited in any way by any court or the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles or any other Administrative agency of the state of Nebraska or any other state jurisdiction. Do you have a valid driver's license?

• Yes
• No

15

For verification purposes, please list your driver's license number and the state of issuance.
16

As a condition of employment for this position, you must at all times be legally licensed to operate a COMMERCIAL motor vehicle. Do you have a valid commercial driver's license (CDL)?

• Yes
• No

17

If yes, please list the license number, state of issuance, and any class endorsements.
18

I understand that I will be required to obtain a valid Nebraska Commercial Driver's License with endorsements, if applicable, within 90 days of appointment or I will be terminated. Further, I understand that if my driving privileges and/or license is at any time suspended, revoked, impounded, or in any other way removed by the State of Nebraska, that I must, as a condition of future employment with the City/County, report that fact IMMEDIATELY to my supervisor. Forms are available in each department. Further, I understand that this document is an official City/County record, and that falsification of this document, or failure to report loss of driving privileges and/or license in the future is grounds for my being disciplined, if hired, or removed from the list of certified eligibles.

• Acknowledge

19

Have you failed or refused a drug and/or alcohol test within the previous three years?

• Yes
• No

20

I understand that in accordance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Department of Transportation Regulations, each individual conditionally hired for a safety sensitive position is subject to mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Any applicant who refuses or fails to execute the City/County's general consent and release form to be drug and alcohol tested, who refuses or fails to execute the City/County's authorization to obtain past drug and alcohol test results forms, who refuses or fails to submit to a pre-employment/pre-duty drug and alcohol test as directed, or whose result is positive for either test, will not be considered eligible to work for the City/County. Existing workers who test positive will not be considered qualified for the position for which they are applying and will also be subject to the City/County discipline, up to and including discharge. All pre-employment job applicants covered by this policy who test positive will not be hired.

• Acknowledge

21

I understand that any applicant has the right to have their original split sample retested (by a DHHS certified laboratory, the original laboratory will follow approved transfer procedures) at their expense, if requested in writing to the City/County Human Resources Director within 72 hours of the final result provided by the Medical Review Officer. If upon retest the results are found to be negative, the City/County will reimburse the costs involved with the retest. (If the second test is found to be positive, the applicant will not be hired, and the cost of the retest will not be reimbursed.)Current employees transferring, promoting or demoting into a position requiring drug testing who test positive have the right to have their sample retested (by a DHHS certified laboratory, the original laboratory will follow approved transfer procedures) at their expense, if requested in writing to the City/County Human Resources Director within 72 hours of the final result provided by the MRO. If upon retest the results are found to be negative, the City/County will reimburse the costs involved with the retest. If the results of the retest, are positive, the cost will not be reimbursed.

• Acknowledge

22

I understand, if hired to a safety sensitive position, I am subject to Random, Post Accident, Reasonable/Suspicion, Return to Duty and Follow-Up drug and alcohol testing. Failure to comply with federal mandates and City/County Policy could result in discipline up to and including termination.

• Acknowledge

23

I understand if I currently have a CDL I must register with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Drug and Alcohol Clearing house at: https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register prior to being hired.

• Acknowledge

24

Are you currently registered in the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse?

• Yes
• No (If no, you must register.)

25

I understand that before I can be hired I must give consent for my prospective employer to conduct a query of the FMCSA Commercial Driver's License Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse to determine whether a drug or alcohol violation has been reported.

• I consent.

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