Senior Field Technician (Transportation Engineering Technician V)

Posting number: 8450-SHA-73-07-TC-03/26

Department: State Highway Administration

Job classification: TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN V

Posting type: Open

Categories: Engineering, Transportation

Summary

(OPEN RECRUITMENT)

State Highway Administration 

Senior Field Technician (Transportation Engineering Technician V)
Grade 15 (8450) SP# 26-73-07

YOU MUST APPLY ONLINE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION
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*Previous Applicants Need Not Apply*

State Highway Administration’s (SHA) Office of Materials Technology is currently recruiting for a Senior Field Technician (Transportation Engineering Technician V) in Anne Arundel County. This position is open to anyone who meets the minimum and selective qualifications listed below by the closing date. This is a position specific recruitment. The resulting list of eligible candidates will be used to fill this vacancy or function only. You will need to reapply for any future recruitment conducted for this job classification.

Nature of Work:  This position is in the Office of Materials Technology's (OMT) Asphalt Technology Division and serves as a Quality Assurance (QA) Inspector for the Asphalt Quality Assurance (QA) Program. The position is essential to OMT operations and to Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) as a whole, and serves as the on-site OMT representative for all asphalt plant and project acceptance operations.  The Senior Field Technician audits, evaluates, and enforces the proper manufacture, shipment, and placement of asphalt mixes statewide. This role ensures that the asphalt mix accepted for payment in SHA projects complies with complex quality level standards and specifications. The acceptable quality level of asphalt mix is audited, evaluated, and enforced by supervising the complex sampling, testing, and inspection activities performed by the contractor’s Quality Control (QC) Certified Technicians who work at the manufacturing and placement sites. The Senior Field Technician has the authority and responsibility to make independent, on-the-spot decisions regarding material acceptance or rejection, or to mandate immediate corrective action to assure quality of materials.

MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here:  MDOT Benefits Guide.   

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Examples of duties

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Graduation from a standard high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.

Experience: Eight (8) years of experience in technical engineering related work in the areas of design, traffic, construction, materials testing, engineering surveys, maintenance, or planning.

Selective Qualification: ­Three (3) years of experience in engineering applications of asphalt mixtures, binders or emulsions. 

*This statement contains a selective qualification, which is more focused in scope than the minimum qualifications for this classification.   Selective qualifications are utilized when the position requires specific or additional bona fide occupational qualifications (i.e., knowledge, skill, or abilities).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Excellent computer and data an