Transportation Maintenance Tech IV
Texas Department of Transportation
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Job summary
Texas Department of Transportation in Cedar Hill, TX, seeks a Transportation Maintenance Tech IV to perform advanced inspection and heavy equipment operation, manage contracts, and lead project activities. The role requires driving a state vehicle and physical readiness for field conditions.
We offer CDL training with full salary during training, lodging and per diem if needed. Salary range for this position starts at $48,244 and goes to $76,028.
Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in transportation engineering support, roadway maintenance, construction inspection, or related work experience.
- Substitutions for experience may be made with related training or education.
Responsibilities
- Inspects complex maintenance and construction-related work for safety, compliance, and contract specs.
- Oversees maintenance contracts and reviews traffic control plans with law enforcement.
- Operates heavy equipment including graders, excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and paving machines.
- Maintains project records, plans, and PS&E documents; assists letting processing.
- Trains other employees and coordinates multi-project workloads.
Skills
Tools
Job description
- Climbing - ascending/descending ladders, stairs, scaffoldings, ramps, etc
Transportation Mntnce Spec IV
Performs advanced transportation operations or maintenance support work such as complex maintenance contract inspection and/or material and process inspection; light and heavy equipment operation; roadway maintenance; preventative and minor maintenance on equipment; traffic control; helping the public during emergency situations; and training other employees. Employees at this level perform work independently on assignments; however, all unusual issues are referred to the supervisor.
- Inspects complex maintenance and construction-related work to include hot mix overlay to ensure compliance with safety, laws and regulations, contract specifications and departmental procedures.
- Maintains files of shop drawings and monitors progress of construction activities.
- Oversees complex maintenance and spot improvement contracts.
- Performs pavement evaluations and operates data collection equipment.
- Reviews and assists in the development of traffic control plans, coordinates with law enforcement agencies, monitors lane closures at construction sites, documents changes in the traffic control setup and coordinates with the Public Information Officer.
- Serves as project leader responsible for maintenance construction inspection activities for a medium to large maintenance construction project or for several small projects.
- Conducts tests of highway construction materials, makes calculations, and records results.
- Identifies, analyzes, and implements solutions for complex maintenance problems.
- Inspects barricades to ensure compliance with barricade standards.
- Inspects traffic control devices and their placement at construction project sites for compliance with specifications for devices, safety laws, rules, regulations and the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
- Maintains construction project records and/or bridge inspection records; processes related paperwork; reviews files for compliance with the bridge inspection Manual of Procedures.
- Operates complex heavy equipment such as a motor grader, large excavator, heavy bulldozer, crane, herbicide truck, heavy asphalt paving machine, self-propelled asphalt distributor, and profiling/milling machine.
- Operates heavy equipment such as a front-end loader one and a half cubic yards or more, tractor-trailer haul truck, large dragline, shovel, paint striper, and dump truck.
- Operates light equipment such as a front-end loader one and a quarter cubic yards or less, pneumatic roller, rotary broom, spreader box, backhoe, street sweeper, and mower.
- Performs preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), routine servicing and minor repairs on equipment and completes various required reports including time-keeping, equipment forms, inventory, accident forms, and PMI.
- Reviews plans, enters data and updates, stores and maintains plans, specifications, and estimate (PS&E) documents and files; assists in PS&E processing for letting, to include reproducing and distributing documents.
- Sands or cleans bridges and roads, posts warning signs, helps the public and performs other work as directed during emergency situations such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents, and hazardous material spills.
- May serve as a work crew project lead ensuring work performed meets project specifications.
- Trains other employees.
- Inspects routine and non-routine maintenance contract construction methods and workmanship to ensure contractors build and maintain roadways, bridges, traffic signals and related highway structures in accordance with plans and specifications.
- Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.
None required
3 years of experience in transportation engineering support, roadway maintenance, construction inspection, or related work experience. (Experience can be satisfied by full time or prorated part time equivalent) Related technical training or education from an accredited institution may be substituted for experience on a year per year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications
Valid driver’s license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
- Transportation principles and methods for moving people or goods by multimodal (road, air, water) methods, including their relative costs, advantages and limitations
- Basic traffic management and control procedures
- Maintenance concepts, methods, policies and requirements
- Applicable plans, specifications and estimates preparation, review, processing and compliance requirements
- Applicable inspection methods, procedures and techniques
- Materials used in highway/bridge construction and maintenance
- The Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
- Applicable industry safety standards, guidelines, and specification codes
- Performing calculations to include material and labor estimates, expenses, technical survey data and engineering calculations
- Using applicable hand and power tools, equipment, and mechanical devices of the trade
- Operating light and heavy highway equipment
- Maintaining a safe and effective working relationship with others
- Planning, coordinating and handling multiple projects within area of responsibility to meet short and long-term deadlines
- Coordinating labor, materials, and equipment
- Analyzing, organizing, and communicating business and technical data
- Monitoring contracts and procedures
- Preparing and maintaining confidential and sensitive records, files, and reports
- Using computers, applicable programs, applications, and systems
- Using applicable electronic test equipment
- Communicate effectively
- Follow verbal and written instructions
- Required to wear protective gear, including, respirator, hard hat, steal toed boots, and other equipment or devices
- Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and/or above 100 degrees for more than one hour
- Subject to noise and vibration
- Subject to hazards-moving vehicles/mechanical parts, high places/heat, or chemicals
- Subject to atmospheric conditions-fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation
- Medium work: Lift up to 50 lbs. at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 25 lbs.
- Climbing - ascending/descending ladders, stairs, scaffoldings, ramps, etc
- Balancing-walking, standing, crouching on various surfaces without falling
- Stooping-bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist
- Kneeling-bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee(s)
- Reaching-extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
- Hearing-perceive sound at normal speaking levels; receive information by oral communication
- Visual Acuity-operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment
- Visual Acuity-determine work quality/make general observations of facilities/structures
- This job has been identified as physically demanding and will require a pre-employment physical.
- This is a Safety Impact position, and you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug test and will be subject to random drug testing.
- Please note that the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulation – 49 CFR Part 40, at 40.151(e) – does not authorize “medical marijuana” under a state law to be a valid medical explanation for a positive drug test result for an employee in this position.
TxDOT's Dallas District is looking for a Transportation Maintenance Tech IV based in Cedar Hill, TX. This position performs routine work related to transportation activities such as construction inspection, routine and contract maintenance inspection, bridge inspection and record keeping, roadway maintenance and repair, light and heavy equipment operation, preventive and minor maintenance on equipment, traffic control, assisting the public during emergency situations, and training other employees.
We offer company-sponsored CDL training with $0 upfront monetary commitment. Earn your full salary while training with lodging, transportation and per-diem provided if necessary. Salary range for each position level. Transportation Maintenance Tech IV A19: $48,244 - $76,028
- Retirement Plans
- Alternative and/or Flexible Work Schedules
- Paid Leave and Holidays
- Health Premiums paid at 100% for Full-Time Employees
- On-the-Job Training
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Holistic Wellness Program with Leave Incentives
- Career Development and Advancement Opportunities
- Family-Friendly Policies and Programs
In 2024, TxDOT was recognized as a Best Place for Working Parents, and many of our offices statewide are also designated as Texas Mother-Friendly Worksites. These recognitions reflect our dedication to supporting families and promoting a healthy work-life balance.
For a complete list of our total compensation package please visit our Total Compensation Package website
To view benefits available to all State of Texas employees visit Benefits at a Glance | ERS (texas.gov)
Maint/Skilled Craft/Ferry Ops
Full-time
Regular
Non-Management
Sep 15, 2026, 11:10:11 AM
Transportation Mntnce Spec IV
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The Texas Department of Transportation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
If requested, reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities for any part of the employment process in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Action of 1990.
Additional Applicant Information
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