Roadway Information Systems Summer Worker

Introduction
Are you looking for a seasonal position?
Would you like to build your knowledge and skills in Roadway Information Systems?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
The State of Connecticut Department of Transportation ( DOT ) is accepting applications for seasonal Roadway Information Systems Summer Workers within the Bureau of Policy and Planning, Office of Roadway Information Systems, Roadway Inventory and the Traffic Monitoring Units at the DOT Headquarters in Newington.
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS:

• Seasonal position with an anticipated start date in May 2024 and ending by August 31, 2024.
• 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week
• Monday through Friday
• Location: Newington, CT
• First Shift

THE ROLE:
The Roadway Inventory Unit is responsible for keeping accurate current and historical data on almost 22,000 miles of public roads in Connecticut. Through various efforts data is collected and validated on a project level basis for state and local roadways. The unit is responsible for updating and maintaining the Department's Linear Referencing System (LRS) and the Transportation Intelligence Gateway (TIG). The unit is also responsible for tracking, documenting, and maintaining all identified roadway asset data for use in meeting reporting requirements including, but not limited to: the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS). This data supports various critical Department functions including: asset management, project prioritization and coordination, financial tracking, funding eligibility, safety analysis, Federal and State reporting requirements, and performance management, among others.
The Traffic Monitoring Unit is responsible for CTDOT's traffic data collection systems. The unit manages over 25 permanent count stations, 13,500 portable count locations, and handles hundreds of traffic studies each year. This data supports various critical CTDOT functions including asset management, project prioritization and coordination, financial tracking, funding eligibility, safety analysis, infrastructure project development, Federal and State reporting requirements, and performance management, among others.
The Summer Workers in the Roadway Inventory and Traffic Monitoring Units will gain experience by fulfilling the following duties:

• Assist in the development and maintenance of a multi-modal network to the current LRS by including Rail, Trail, Transit, and Private Roads to better identify crash data locations.
• Assist with the quality control assessment of roadway, traffic asset datasets to ensure they meet or exceed nationally accepted standards for completeness, accuracy, precision, and uniformity.
• Assist with data update coordination to ensure proper integration of roadway data into the LRS of record, assistance in the development of supplemental collection plans for requested safety and asset management related assets (e.g. center line rumble strips, approved speed limits) that support critical Department functions.
• Assist with coordination and outreach to identify and integrate disparate Department datasets.
• Assist with providing outreach to the 169 municipalities in CT to gather, format, and integrate appropriate local roadway datasets.
• Assist with organizing and advise Department partners on developing technology solutions to aid in collection, integration, and quality assessment of data, including cutting edge technology such as computer vision and machine learning.
• Assist with ensuring high quality roadway data is collected, vetted, processed, stored, and made available to report, display, edit, and publish road network and asset data for internal and external customer consumption.
• Assist with the analysis of data, perform quality control procedures, and accurately make it available to display on the LRS along with other GIS formats for enterprise consumption for visual and analysis purposes.
• Assist with creating, developing and extracting reports and dashboards of various assets for comparison, analysis, and cross validation as well as develop reports to provide summary data.
• Assist with working closely with various internal and external partners and customers including FHWA, municipal officials, regional organizations, state officials etc.
• Assist in quality control and calibration of sensors used to collect volume, vehicle classification and asset datasets to ensure they meet or exceed nationally accepted standards for completeness, accuracy, precision, and uniformity.
• Assist in the deployment of at roadside locations to accurately measure and record traffic conditions.
• Assist the installation video recording equipment and program camera to record studies that will be processed into numerical data using AI software.

ABOUT US
The mission of the DOT is to provide a safe and efficient intermodal transportation network that improves the quality of life and promotes economic vitality for the State and the region. To learn more about our mission, vision and values, please click here . Visit our website to learn more about the Connecticut DOT!
Watch the video below to see what a day is like at the Connecticut DOT!
Selection Plan
TO APPLY

• Selected candidates must at least 16 or 18 years old, depending on the position.
• In order to be considered for this job opening, you must meet the Minimum Qualifications as listed on this job opening. You must specify your qualifications on your application.
• The minimum experience and training requirements must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
• In order to receive educational credits toward qualification for this job posting, the institution must be accredited. If the institution of higher learning is located outside of the U.S., you are responsible for providing documentation from a recognized USA accrediting service which specializes in determining foreign education equivalencies to the recruiter listed on this job posting.
• For current state employees, salary calculations are not necessarily comparable from one of the three branches of state government (i.e., Executive, Legislative, Judicial) to the other.
• Ensure that your application is complete and detailed before submitting it. In order to comply with Public Act 21-69 , theState of Connecticut is no longer asking for resumes during the initial application process. You will not be able to make revisions once your application is submitted into the JobAps system.
• Please select all location(s) and shift(s) you are willing to work on your application. Failure to do so may result in not being considered for vacancies in that specific location or shift.
• All application materials must be received by the recruiting agency by the time specified on the job opening for the position for which you are applying. Late applications may not be submitted and will not be considered. Exceptions are rare and limited to documented events that incapacitate a candidate during the entire duration of the job posting time period. It is the candidate's obligation and responsibility to request an exception and provide a legally recognized justification to accommodate such exception. Requests should be made to DAS.SHRM@ct.gov .

FOR ASSISTANCE IN APPLYING

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION AFTER YOU APPLY

• This posting may require completion of additional referral questions (RQs). You can access these RQs via an email that will be sent to you after the posting's closing date or by visiting your JobAps Personal Status Board (Certification Questionnaires section). Your responses to these RQs must be submitted by the questionnaire's expiration date. Please regularly check your email and JobAps Personal Status Board for notifications. Please check your SPAM and/or Junk folders on a daily basis in the event an email provider places auto-notification emails in a user's spam.
• Although applicants will receive correspondence via email, as a backup they are also encouraged to sign on to their Personal Status Board on a daily basis to monitor their status, view all emailed notices and complete tasks required in the recruitment process.
• Note: At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation which support their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a cover letter, resume, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency.
• Interviews will be limited to candidates whose experience and training most closely meet the requirements of the position.
• The immediate vacancy is listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class.

CONNECT WITH US

• Due to the large volume of applications received, we are unable to provide confirmation of receipt or status during the recruitment process. Updates will be available through your JobAps portal account. Should you have any questions pertaining to this recruitment, please contact Brittney Woodley at brittney.woodley@ct.gov .

PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)
In a state agency this class performs tasks and duties of a seasonal nature by providing services to clients or the public.
Work areas covered by this class shall include the assignments and hourly rates as listed below:
AssignmentMinimum Hourly
RatesMaximum Hourly
Rates General $15.69 $17.00 Patient Care Service $15.69 $17.00 Maintenance $15.69 $17.00 Laboratory Assistant $15.69 $17.00 Recreational Aide $15.69 $17.00 Transportation Services (Bus Driver) $15.69 $17.00 Tourist Information Clerk $15.69 $17.00 Specialized Recreational Services $15.69 $17.00 Tourist Information Coordinator $15.69 $17.00 Information Technology System Analysis $19.00 $22.00 Professional Engineering * $19.44 $22.51 Legal $19.00 $22.00
Minimum and maximum hourly rates will be subject to the following criteria:

• Returning Seasonal Workers may receive $.50 an hour additional compensation for each season of service up to the maximum hourly rate.

OR

• Experienced workers in the specific functional area with another employer may be credited with such time on an equivalent basis to seasons worked and granted the same additional compensation up to the maximum hourly rate.

OR

• Undergraduate or graduate students may be granted additional compensation of up to $.50 more per hour (up to the maximum hourly rate) for each full year of completed education on the basis of 30 semester hours equaling one (1) year.

NOTE: Determination of hourly rate is based on the above criteria. Additional compensation is based on only one criteria. It is not intended for individuals to receive additional compensation through application of the multiple criteria listed above.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES
See attached Addendum
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

• Knowledge of
  • principles, practices and procedures of assigned specialty;
  • operation of equipment, materials and activities of assigned specialty;
• Knowledge to degree necessary for dealing with and understanding an individual's behavior;
• Skills
  • interpersonal skills;
  • techniques of assigned specialty skills;
• Ability to
  • assist individuals in self-care habits, personal hygiene and proper social conduct where applicable;
  • understand and carry out written orders and oral instructions;
• Adequate physical strength and stamina to perform duties;
• Some positions may require supervisory and/or leadership abilities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Any experience and training that could reasonably be expected to provide the knowledge, skills and abilities listed above.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An academic history that demonstrates an interest in Data Analytics, Statistics, Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or Mathematics. Other degrees will be considered providing that the applicant has coursework or work experience in data collection, data analysis, and data reporting.
• Grade Point Average of 3.0 or higher in the above listed areas of study or closely related areas of study.

The following experience through course work, work experience, or internships:

• Experience in performing measurements, performing quality checks and reporting information.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and other programs such as, but not limited to: FME, PowerBI, ESRI's product suite, and Google Earth.
• Experience with computer programming languages, large data sets, querying and scripting capabilities and database management using applications such as Java, SQL, Python, and others.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Incumbents in this class assigned to recreational activities must be able to perform emergency first aid as needed and certain positions will require a current Standard First Aid Certificate.
• Incumbents in this class assigned as bus drivers or operate a motor vehicle must possess and retain a current Connecticut Motor Vehicle Operator License to drive a bus and/or a Motor Vehicle Operators License as necessary.
• Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.

Conclusion
AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As defined by Sec. 5-196 of the Connecticut General Statutes, a job class is a position or group of positions that share general characteristics and are categorized under a single title for administrative purposes. As such, a job class is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task and/or responsibil...