JOB This position is located in Winnemucca, NV. Incumbent supervises an 8-man crew that performs road maintenance, winter operations, betterments, and emergency incident response. This crew covers 247.68 lane miles. Highway Maintenance Supervisor I's are responsible for maintenance activities, including but not limited to pavement repair, fence repair, planning and scheduling day-to-day operations, and district betterment projects. They coordinate equipment and personnel with other crews, schedule winter operations, perform related tasks, and emergency incident response.
Highway Maintenance Supervisors supervise skilled and semi-skilled personnel engaged in restoring roadway surfaces and restoring or constructing slopes, shoulders, culverts, structures, fixtures and landscaping located on the roadside or right-of-way; oversee and inspect work performed in an assigned geographical area of a district, or while implementing a specialty maintenance program such as highway landscaping, highway signs and lighting, or pavement marking and striping. EXAMPLE OF DUTIES Graduation from high school or equivalent education and one year of experience as lead worker of a highway maintenance crew which included assigning and overseeing the work of lower level personnel, providing input on performance evaluations and assisting the supervisor in laying out a variety of roadway or specialty maintenance work; OR graduation from high school or equivalent education and two years of experience as a Highway Maintenance Worker III in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION Detailed knowledge of: materials, methods and equipment used in highway maintenance and construction; stockpiles and stockpile reports.
Working knowledge of: purchasing requirements and contracting limitations; a wide variety of manuals, policies, rules and regulations; road and weather information for effective winter roadway maintenance operations; incident command system protocol; emergency operation center responsibilities.
Ability to: effectively monitor a vegetation management contract and an invasive species control program; plan, schedule, prioritize and participate in both routine and complex highway maintenance activities; supervise a crew of skilled and semi-skilled workers including performance evaluations, writing employee development reports, and initiating disciplinary actions; document work activities, equipment and material use, status of stockpiles and inventories, project summaries and existing highway deficiencies; effectively communicate with subordinate personnel, supervisors, law enforcement officers, and a variety of regulatory agencies; read and interpret blueprints, schematic drawings, material safety data sheets, standard plans, and proposed construction and encroachment projects; inspect projects for compliance with plans and specifications; calculate application ratios, stockpile and material needs and usage; measure distance, area and volume; schedule equipment maintenance and repairs; estimate quantities of materials for projects; develop project scopes, methods of construction and costs for district input into the annual work program; resolve worksite conflict in a competent and professional manner; stay abreast of new regulations.
RECRUITER CONTACT INFORMATION: Sydney Fowler at [email protected]
