Title: Maintenance Operations Manager - Edinburg Residency
State Role Title: Transportation Operations Manager III
Hiring Range: $68,768 - $111,748
Pay Band: 5
Agency: VA Dept of Transportation
Location: Winchester BUS
Agency Website: www.vdot.virginia.gov/careers
Recruitment Type: Agency Employee Only - A
Are you driven by leadership and success? Are you ready to further your career in highway maintenance and construction, an industry that will offer you long-term career opportunities? VDOT's Maintenance Operations Manager is the job for you!
Job Duties
VDOT's Staunton District Edinburg Residency is seeking a highly qualified Maintenance Operations Manager (MOM) to assist VDOT leadership in the coordination, integration and management of resources allocated to the maintenance program. Specifically, you will:
• Plan and direct maintenance operations.
• Develop and manage workforce development, maintenance schedules, long-range strategic plans, organizational initiatives and budgets.
• Coordinate and direct emergency operations to include inclement weather and disaster response.
• Effectively manage equipment resources and business activities.
• Oversee yearly resurfacing for the residency primary and secondary routes.
• Effectively manage resources to support the District's Dashboard targets.
• Ensure all employees are properly trained to enact emergency response duties.
• Oversee training, coordination, and implementation of emergency action plans.
• Ensure financial resources are planned and expended to fulfill needs within budgetary limits, policies, procedures, and deadlines.
• Manage maintenance staff to ensure work activities are productive and effective. Monitor schedules, guidelines, budgets, policies, and procedures to deliver satisfactory services and work product in compliance with environmental regulations.
• Ensure timely submittal of documents to Environmental and Hydraulic sections, as prescribed, for maintenance operations requiring permits and/or having environmental impacts.
**This position may report to the Edinburg Residency Office or the Winchester Business Office.**
Minimum Qualifications
• Ability to plan and coordinate resources, manage multiple projects and schedules; assess training needs and provide workforce development opportunities.
• Considerable knowledge of federal and state highway and transportation rules, regulations, and policies.
• Valid driver's license.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with the general public, property owners, contractors, and VDOT staff.
• Skill in the use of computers and software applications.
• Considerable knowledge of inventory management.
• Ability to supervise and manage diverse staff by analyzing needs, identifying solutions, and implementing recommendations to support organizational values and goals.
• Considerable knowledge of roadway constructions and maintenance operations, equipment, materials, and techniques.
• Ability to understand, apply, and advocate for safety standards and procedures for implementation into the workforce.
Additional Considerations
• Progressively responsible experience in budget management and allocations
• Progressively responsible experience in the management and supervision of roadway maintenance or construction activities.
• A combination of training, experience, or education in Engineering, Public Administration or related field desired.
• DEQ: Inspector for Erosion Sediment Control (ESC IN).
• Experience developing and promoting effective workforce teams that demonstrate VDOT's core competency model.
• Experience or skill in the use of automated financial software; advanced skilled in computers a plus.
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.
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. VDOT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information, please visit “Information for VDOT Employees and Applicants” at: http://www.virginiadot.org/jobs/information_for_employees.asp
We have Shared Values and a Code of Ethics which may be viewed at www.Virginiadot.org/about. Your success in our organization depends upon modelling these values, therefore please to review them and, if in agreement, we welcome you to apply.
In addition to a rewarding work experience, VDOT offers excellent health and life insurance benefits, pre-tax spending accounts, state funded Short and Long Term Disability, paid holidays, vacation, tuition assistance, free wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching.
Multiple positions may be filled from this posting.
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.
State applications will only be accepted as submitted online by 11:55 pm on the closing date through the PageUp System. State applications submitted via email, postal mail, fax, or in person will not be considered. Applicants are expected to fully represent qualifications and work history on the State application and or resume. The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information provided on the application, therefore, it is essential to fully complete each section of the application and provide detailed information. Submitting an incomplete state application, or a state application lacking in detail, may impact your interview eligibility.
As defined by VDOT Department Memorandum (DM) Number: 17-1 – Emergency Operations and Traffic Management, VDOT is an emergency operation agency. As such, this job is essential to emergency response operations and expected to work in these situations. Report to work when called. Maintain communications with supervisor. Keep abreast of weather forecasts for duty readiness in reporting. Be prepared to operate appropriate equipment in all kinds of weather.
Contact Information
Name: Ciara Diehl
Phone: (540)292-4079
Email: Ciara.Diehl@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.