Highway Technician 4, District CPA Construction, PN 20049365 & 20062881

Who We Are:

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) oversees building and maintaining the nation’s 5th largest interstate system and the 2nd largest number of bridges. We take pride in providing safe and efficient roadways for the people of Ohio and to the people traveling within our great state. And in order to achieve that, we do A LOT! From Planning, Engineering, Construction to Law, HR, Communications, IT and everything in between, ODOT has a career for just about everyone. ODOTers are hardworking, passionate, and dedicated to public service. We strive to achieve our agency’s vision every day: To be a long term, reliable, professional, and highly productive organization. 

 
ODOT's Mission Statement: 

To provide easy movement of people and goods from place to place. We will:

     -Take care of what we have

     -Make our system work better

     -Improve safety

     -Enhance capacity

 
Who we are looking for:

• Safety driven


• Enjoys working outdoors


• Honest, accountable, trustworthy, and respectable


• A positive team player

Benefits to you:

• Extensive benefits including medical, vision, dental and basic life insurance


• 11 paid holidays per year


• Paid time off with vacation, sick and personal leave accruals


• At least a 14% employer contribution in to your OPERS pension plan


• Pay increases pursuant to the OCSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement


• Employee Tuition reimbursement programs


• Work/Life Balance


• The opportunity to work on an important mission

Official Position Description:

Inspects construction projects to ensure contractor compliance with State specifications, plans &/or proposals &/or performs laboratory &/or field tests on materials to ensure quality control of project materials (e.g., roadway, drainage, demolition & clearing, foundations for embankment, sub grades, piles, guardrails &/or median barriers, landscaping slope protection, detours, temporary roads, bridge painting, inspects complex structures, verifies plans quantities & calculations with blueprints, tests concrete for air, slump & yield, operates nuclear gauges or embankment kit to test compaction & density & collects material samples to be forwarded to district or central office, performs specific laboratory or field tests on materials proposed for construction &/or on producers’ or suppliers’ stock obtained from field to determine compliance with state specifications & to monitor quality control testing, or monitor sampling & quality control testing or perform job control & quality control sampling of various plants in assigned work area, receives cross training in testing & construction, approves construction in line with environmental documents, designs & approves mix designs, researches & designs new materials to recommend changes, aggregate quality testing including the interpretation of results, rejects or accepts specific aspect of project pending review by engineer), signs inspection reports as a certified inspector (i.e., fully certified inspector). Performs maintenance duties which include serving as a lead worker, emergency response & clean-up, layout & placement of maintenance of traffic devices, snow & ice control & related maintenance duties by operation of snow plow with spreader, brine dispensing equipment, dump truck with attachments (per November 26, 2003 Highway Technician MOU between ODOT & OCSEA/AFSCME).

Prepares & maintains project records & reports (e.g., daily diary, inspection reports, pay item quantities, progress estimates, contractor’s construction methods, material inspection); utilizes software programs (e.g., SiteManager, Excel) to record information & generate reports. 

Maintains records of samples tested; calibrates & maintains laboratory & field test equipment & instruments; operates personal computer to input data & create records. Assists Contractor Compliance Officers (CCOs) in ensuring Commercially Useful Function (CUF) requirements are met (e.g., fills out forms & ensures completed forms are returned to assigned CCO).

 

Successful completion of all Highway Technician level 3 courses (i.e., construction/field &/or lab track); 520 hrs. of construction exp.as a Highway Technician 3 or other applicable provisions regarding construction experience per the March 11, 2015 Highway Technician MOU between ODOT & OCSEA/AFSCME; Certification in ACI Field Testing Technician Grade I, Aggregate Level 1, & Nuclear Gauge.

In addition to the above, for positions in Construction, applicants must possess the following:

Successful completion of ODOT Internal Certification in Structures & Traffic Control Devices.

In addition to the set of qualifications immediately above, for positions in test lab, applicants must possess the following:

Certification in Aggregate Levels 2 & 3, Asphalt Levels 2 & 3, & Concrete Technician.

Note: Applicant must have valid Commercial Driver’s License at the appropriate level pursuant to approved position description on file to operate motorized equipment of size & type regulated by section 4506 of Ohio Revised Code.

-Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above.