Title: Weigh Station Manager - Position #02327 (Sandston MCSC)
State Role Title: Compliance Manager I
Hiring Range: $69,458
Pay Band: 5
Agency: Department of Motor Vehicles
Location: SANDSTON SCALES
Agency Website: dmv.virginia.gov
Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties
DMV seeks to fill the Weigh Station Manager position at our Sandston Scales Motor Carrier Service Center. The Weigh Station Manager will ensure motorists' safety and protect Virginia’s highways by monitoring overweight and oversized trucks. This position interacts with State Police, local law enforcement personnel, and officials to ensure safety and weighing policies and procedures regarding Virginia’s size and weight laws are enforced safely and professionally.
Duties include:
- Responsible for the planning, managing, and coordinating operations for a permanent weighing facility.
- Supervise personnel, budget, and maintenance of equipment and properties.
- Training, safety, and employee performance relative to implementing regulations, laws, policies, and procedures.
- Overseeing DMV service functions for liquidated damage payments, reinstating suspended drivers, and running transcripts.
- Act as a technician to maintain a designated schedule and keep the operation operational.
- The working manager will rotate on the schedule to maintain the facility's operation.
- Scheduling of a 24-hour weigh station and random mobile operations; can move portable scales (-50 pounds); and have the ability to manage and account for revenues and expenditures accurately.
- Perform the task of sampling diesel fuel from vehicles' fuel tanks to determine whether or not dyed diesel fuel is present in the fuel tanks of inspected vehicles; correctly record data and secure fuel samples when dyed fuel is suspected, following the chain of evidence procedures.
- Testify in court on disputed citations and provide expert witness testimony as required.
Veterans and bilingual individuals are encouraged to apply.
DMV, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, serves approximately 6.2 million licensed drivers and ID card holders with over 8.4 million registered vehicles. In addition, DMV serves many businesses, including dealers, fuel tax customers, rental companies, driving schools, other state agencies, local governments, and non-profit organizations. DMV operates upon five fundamental core values: Trustworthiness, Respect, Accountability, Integrity, and Teamwork (TRAIT). We don’t just talk about our core values. We live them!
Minimum Qualifications
Considerable knowledge of:
- Customer service management and practices
- Cash management, inventory control methods and procedures, PCs, Microsoft Office products, performance management, process improvement principles, HR management, facilities management, customer service practices, computer systems, and databases.
Working knowledge of:
- Data analysis and evaluation techniques
- Personal computers, databases, and IT systems
- Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Accounting practices and procedures
- Financial Management
- Process improvement principles
- Managing cash and non-cash assets, expenditures, and revenues
- Communication, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, motivational, and planning skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills are necessary to communicate with all internal and external team members and customers.
Proven ability to:
- Analyze and evaluate operational performance to ensure established goals and targets are met.
- Develop and implement operational strategies for improving performance.
- Read, interpret, apply, and explain complex statutes
- Adjust priorities and manage time wisely in a fast-paced environment.
- Analyze data and make recommendations for improvements; prepare spreadsheets if needed to develop management reports.
- Communicate concisely and understandably; listen attentively to others to understand new directives and provide instructions to employees on changes.
- Maintain records and documentation about workforce performance; develop and train, build working relationships, utilize staff skills, conduct meetings, make presentations, and promote a team environment.
Additional Considerations
- Knowledge of truck weighing procedures and policies, related Virginia and federal laws, and the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia.
- Truck weighing experience.
- Knowledge of The Motor Carrier Size, Weight & Equipment Requirements Manual and the policies, procedures, and operations for weighing trucks.
- Knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Protection Act, the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, and DMV policies and procedures related to MCSC operations.
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.
Selected candidate(s) must complete the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form. DMV participates in E-Verify.
All applicants for employment must consent to a background check. Selected candidates must consent to a fingerprint-based criminal history check, driver record check, and background investigation, if applicable.
As a condition of employment, the DMV will be alerted of any moving violation convictions, including license suspension.
Submission of an online application is required. DMV does not accept applications, resumes, cover letters, etc., in any other format. When applying for jobs, please ensure your online application or resume is complete with duties and skills associated with your work experience and years of experience so that your skills are assessed properly in the screening process. Candidates are evaluated based on information provided in the application materials. Missing information cannot be assumed.
Contact Information
Name: DMV Employment
Phone: (804) 367-0528
Email: employment@dmv.virginia.gov
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we encourage 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, and February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.