Title: Maintenance Crew Leader

State Role Title: Maintenance Crew Leader

Hiring Range: $39,023-$63,413

Pay Band: 3

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: MARTINSVILLE

Agency Website: https://www.virginiadot.org/jobs/default.asp

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Interested in building your career in highway maintenance? VDOT Salem District’s Martinsville
Residency is seeking highly skilled and motivated Maintenance Crew Leaders with experience in roadway/ roadside maintenance/ construction to serve as a working crew leader for local roadway/roadside maintenance crews. The Martinsville Residency covers Henry, Patrick and Carroll Counties. We currently have an opening at the Peters Creek Area Headquarters.
The Maintenance Crew Leader works closely with area supervisors to identify maintenance needs, develop schedules, plan work and resources, and execute complex work assignments. Determines and demonstrates proper work site protection techniques and identifies required safety protocols. Performs, trains and leads crew members in performing manual labor, equipment operation, and following environmental requirements and proper safety techniques in roadway and roadside maintenance activities. Monitors operations and ensures work complies to agency standards (such as environmental and safety guidelines), maintains records of work performed, and may serve as a back-up supervisor as needed.
VDOT is an emergency response agency, and this position is key to fulfilling this agency requirement, and this position will be called upon to work outside of normal work hours during emergency operations such as inclement weather, flooding, and/or traffic incidents.
At VDOT, we work together to serve citizens and visitors to the Commonwealth with excellence, valuing differences to do our best and achieve a high-performance culture. We have Shared Values and a Code of Ethics: Your success in our organization depends upon modeling these values, therefore please access the following link to review them:
VDOT Mission and Values and, if in agreement, we welcome you to apply.
We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.
VDOT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information, please visit “Information for
VDOT Employees and Applicants” at: V3 Details.

Minimum Qualifications

• Considerable knowledge of roadway and roadside maintenance and construction materials, practices and procedures.
• Considerable skill in performing manual labor, and operating and maintaining light, medium, and heavy-duty equipment used in roadway and roadside maintenance and construction. Basic record keeping and computer skills.
• Ability to plan, schedule, and complete complex work assignments. Ability to train and lead the work of others.
• Ability to perform manual labor including frequent lifting up to 50 lbs., and to use hand and power tools.
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply work zone safety and traffic control manual guidelines.
• Ability to obtain CDL and DOT medical card within 11 months of employment and maintain thereafter.
• Ability to work/lead in inclement weather, accident, and emergency/disaster response, etc. during and after normal work hours including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Additional Considerations

• Current CDL
• Experience leading others in diverse and complex roadway and roadside work activities.
• Experience performing /leading emergency operations such as snow removal, storm damage, and accident clean up.
• Experience preparing reports and keeping records; experience performing administrative tasks with computer technology.
• Knowledge of and experience with VDOT maintenance inventory procedures.
• High school diploma or GED preferred; equivalent experience or training may substitute for education.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

If selected as a finalist, you will undergo:
• Employment reference check and work history verification
• DMV Records Check
• Fingerprint-based criminal history records check
Additionally, required for CDL holders:
• Full Query drug and alcohol history in FMCSA Clearinghouse – Register at: FMCSA Clearinghouse.
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening
• Federal DOT pre-employment physical
Safety shoes and other personal protective equipment (PPE) required in performance of job duties.
This position is designated as essential and, as such, all duties associated with this job are required during emergency situations which may include, but are not limited to,
inclement weather, disaster response and emergency operations.
Performance of these duties may require work outside of normal business hours including nights, weekends and holidays. VDOT will determine when essential positions are
required to report.
Multiple Crew Leader positions may be filled from this recruitment. Salem Residency Area Headquarters include Southwest, Hanging Rock, Buchanan, Eagle Rock, Troutville and New Castle.
VDOT utilizes a market-based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.
The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information about qualifications and work history provided by the applicant in the application and/or optional resume’. State applications will only be accepted through online submission through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Job Board/PageUp. PageUp provides a confirmation of receipt when your application is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your PageUp account to check the status of your application for this position.
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their Certificate of Disability (COD) provided by a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor within the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS). Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS to get their Certificate of Disability. If you need to get a Certificate of Disability, use this link: https://www.vadars.org/drs/cpid/PWContact.aspx, or call DARS at 800- 552-5019.

Contact Information

Name: Tabatha Adkins

Phone: 540.750.5525

Email: tabatha.adkins@vdot.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.