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ODOT Highway Technician 1 - WINTER SEASONAL District 7: Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer, in Wapakoneta, Ohio
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Highway Technician 1 - WINTER SEASONAL District 7: Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Shelby
Who We Are:
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) oversees building and maintaining the nation's 5^th^ largest interstate system and the 2^nd^ 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 a transportation system that is safe, accessible, well maintained, and positioned for the future.
Job Description
HIRING WINTER SEASONAL CDL DRIVERS
The Ohio Department of Transportation District 7 is now accepting applications for Winter Seasonal Highway Technicians for the following counties: Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, and Shelby.
These positions are temporary, unclassified appointments not to exceed 1,000 hours.
What You'll Do:
Operate basic equipment related to snow and ice removal, and roadway maintenance
Perform emergency response, clean-up, and traffic control
Serve the public and work to make the roads in Ohio safer
Who we are looking for:
-Safety Driven
-Enjoys working outdoors
-Honest, accountable, trustworthy, and respectful
-A positive team player
Official Position Description
Operates basic equipment (i.e., see glossary for identification of basic equipment) & performs general highway maintenance duties which vary by season (e.g., constructs, improves, maintains, repairs & cleans highways &/or roadways & right-of-ways to include excavating & grading ditches, digging channels & cleaning waterways, cuts brush, grass & other vegetation, applies chemicals to vegetation, patches & seals berm & pavement, mixes mortar & concrete, shovels backfill, installs & repairs catch basin & stream channel & completes other drainage work, screens bleeding surface, reshapes/digs ditches/trenches, pours hot tar, removes trash, cleans & repairs highways &/or roadways & right-of-ways, mows grass, moves & loads supplies & materials & completes other related highway maintenance assignments, operates any combination of basic equipment to haul trash), performs snow & ice control & related maintenance duties by operation of snow plow with spreader, brine dispensing equipment, dump truck with attachments, maintains, repairs & installs traffic signs & pavement markings on inter-state, federal & state highways &/or roadways (e.g., repairs/replaces/straightens street &/or traffic signs & other route markers; installs & repairs guardrails).
Performs emergency response & clean up & performs traffic control (e.g., flags traffic through work zone or around accident site; sets lane closures; places high water signs; erects barricades); receives training (on the job & formal) in various types of construction inspection activities (maintenance related inspection items).
Performs minor repairs & maintenance on equipment (e.g., sharpens