General Engineering Tech I (Inspector): Llano Maintenance Office (Austin District)

This position performs and coordinates advanced transportation engineering operations or maintenance support work such as construction and complex maintenance contract inspection; light and heavy equipment operation; roadway maintenance; traffic control; helping the public during emergency situations; and training other employees. May serve as a lead worker. Employees at this level establish their own work plan and priorities to meet set objectives. Issues are rarely referred to the supervisor but are handled at the occurrence.

Essential Duties:

• Conducts tests of highway construction materials, makes calculations, and records results.
• Identifies, analyzes, and implements solutions for complex maintenance problems.
• 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. 
• Inspects construction and routine and non-routine contract maintenance methods and workmanship to ensure contractors maintain roadways, bridges, traffic signals and related highway structures in accordance with plans and specifications. 
• Inspects traffic control devices and their placement at construction project sites for compliance with specifications for devices, safety laws, rules, and the regulations and the Texas Manual on Unform Traffic Control Devices. 
• May serve as a lead worker and the related tasks. 
• May train other employees. 
• Operates light and heavy equipment; performs preventive maintenance and repairs on equipment; performs roadway maintenance. 
• Operates light and heavy equipment; performs preventive maintenance and repairs on equipment; performs roadway.
• Sands situations or cleans such as bridges floods, and roads, tornadoes, posts hurricanes, warning signs, snowstorms, helps the public accidents, and performs hazardous other work material as spills. directed during emergency situations such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents and hazardous material spills. 
• Serves small as projects. project leader responsible for construction inspection activities for a medium to large construction project or for several small projects. 
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned. This position requires driving a state vehicle.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: High School Grad or Equivalent in general high school studies.

Experience: 4 years in transportation engineering support, roadway maintenance, construction inspection, or related work experience. (Experience can be satisfied by fulltime or prorated parttime equivalent).

Related college education or relevant technical training may be substituted for experience on a year per year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications

Licenses and Certifications:

• • Commercial Driver Certificate at time of hire.
  • Class "A" Commercial Driver's License at time of hire.
  • Valid driver's license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.    

Competencies:

• Applicable inspection methods, procedures and techniques
• Materials used in highway/bridge construction and maintenance
• The Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 
• Maintenance concepts, methods, policies and requirements 
• Applicable plans, specifications and estimates preparation review, processing and compliance requirements
• Coordinating labor, materials and equipment 
• Using computers and applicable programs, applications, and systems 
• Using light highway equipment 
• Maintaining a safe working relationship, leading, assigning, reviewing, and monitoring the work of others

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Subject to outside environmental conditions; no effective weather protection
• Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions
• Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and above 100 degrees for more than one hour
• Subject to noise
• Subject to vibration
• Subject to hazards-moving vehicles/mechanical parts, high places/heat, or chemicals
• Subject to atmospheric conditions-fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation
• Subject to air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids
• Required to wear protective gear-respirator, hard hat, or other device
• Works frequently in small/crawl spaces; manholes; areas that can cause claustrophobia
• Medium work: Lift up to 50 lbs. at a time and frequently lift or carry objects up to 25 lbs.
• Visual Acuity-operate machines, such as drill presses, power saws, and mills
• Visual Acuity-operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment

Conditions of Employment:
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• This job has been identified as physically demanding and will require a pre-employment physical. 
• Must pass a drug test prior to employment for safety impact positions. This is a Safety Impact position 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.
• Must be able to report for duty within 30 minutes of notification on a 24-hour basis to respond to emergency situations.