Title: Crew Leader Maintenance - Salem Residency

State Role Title: Transportation Operator III

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

Pay Band: 3

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: Troutville 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. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is responsible for building, maintaining, and operating the state’s roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries, and at VDOT, we have something for YOU!

VDOT Salem District’s Salem Residency is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Maintenance Crew Leader with experience in roadway/ roadside maintenance/ construction to serve as a working crew leader for local roadway/roadside maintenance crews. The Salem Residency covers Botetourt, Craig, and Roanoke Counties, and this advertisement will be used to fill multiple vacancies in the Salem Residency jurisdiction. We currently have Crew Leader openings in our Troutville and New Castle Area Headquarters.

The Maintenance Crew Leader works closely with area supervisors to identify maintenance needs, develop schedules, plan work and resources, and to execute complex work assignments. The Crew Leader determines and demonstrates proper work site protection techniques, and identifies required safety protocols; Performs, trains and leads crew members in performing manual labor, equipment operation, and following environmental requirements in roadway and roadside maintenance activities. Monitors operations and ensures work complies with agency standards, maintains records of work performed, and may serve 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

• Considerable knowledge of roadway and roadside maintenance and construction materials, practices and procedures.
• Recent experience operating light, medium, and heavy-duty equipment such as VDOT uses in roadway and roadside maintenance and construction activities.
• Basic record keeping and computer skills.
• Ability to plan, schedule, and complete complex work assignments.
• Experience training work processes and leading the work of others.
• Recent experience and ability to perform manual labor, including frequent lifting up to 50 lbs., and to using hand and power tools.
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply work zone safety and traffic control manual guidelines.
• 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

• Current CDL
• Experience leading others in diverse and complex roadway and roadside work activities.
• Experience performing /leading emergency operations such as snow removal, and storm damage and accident clean up.
• Experience preparing reports and keeping records; experience performing administrative tasks with computer technology.
• Knowledge of and experience with VDOT maintenance inventory procedures.

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.

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

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

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.

Valid Driver’s License and ability to travel independently among assigned work locations is required.

Multiple Crew Leader positions may be filled from this recruitment.

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.

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.

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.