Highway Maintenance Technician Apprentice — CDL Prep & $1,500 Sign-on

IdahoPTV; Twin Falls (ID); On-site; USD 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Idaho Transportation Department in Twin Falls, ID, is offering a Transportation Technician Apprentice – Highway Maintenance position. The role is full-time, with a wage scale starting at $21.05–$24.14 per hour, and includes a $1,500 sign-on bonus.

This is a 3-5 year horizontal career path with on-the-job and classroom training, and progression through defined steps with pay increases. A CDL Class A must be obtained within 60 days of hire, and pre-employment and random drug testing are required.

Qualifications

• Valid driver's license.
• Experience operating vehicles with manual transmissions.

Responsibilities

• Perform entry-level traffic services activities such as snow plowing, striping, and replacing and repairing traffic signs and posts.
• Perform entry-level technical highway maintenance and engineering work.
• Operate a variety of power tools and light and heavy highway and construction equipment to maintain roadways, signs, bridges and other transportation facilities.
• Conduct routine inspections and field tests on construction and maintenance projects.
• Conduct sample and routine material testing.
• This work involves physically demanding tasks such as clearing brush and lifting and carrying heavy objects.
• This work involves working in all types of weather conditions, under hazardous conditions, on congested highways, around operating equipment and in a noisy environment.
• May require irregular shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays, along with frequent travel to and from the work site which may include occasional overnight stays.
• Some positions require employees to work with chemicals and toxic materials and incumbents will be required to undergo periodic biologic testing and pass medical tests while employed in these positions.

Skills

Valid driver's license

Manual transmission operation

Job description

Idaho Transportation Department in Twin Falls, ID, is offering a Transportation Technician Apprentice – Highway Maintenance position. The role is full-time, with a wage scale starting at $21.05–$24.14 per hour, and includes a $1,500 sign-on bonus.

This is a 3-5 year horizontal career path with on-the-job and classroom training, and progression through defined steps with pay increases. A CDL Class A must be obtained within 60 days of hire, and pre-employment and random drug testing are required.