Who We Are:
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) oversees building and maintaining the nation's 5th largest interstate system and the 2nd largest number of bridges. We take pride in providing safe and efficient roadways for the people of Ohio and to the people traveling within our great state. And in order to achieve that, we do A LOT! From Planning, Engineering, Construction to Law, HR, Communications, IT and everything in between, ODOT has a career for just about everyone. ODOTers are hardworking, passionate, and dedicated to public service. We strive to achieve our agency's vision every day: To be a long term, reliable, professional, and highly productive organization.

We Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: ODOT values its diversity, and is committed to cultivating an inclusive and equitable work environment for all employees - one where differences are respected and celebrated. Our agency continues to build a workforce that champions the advancement of DEI principles and initiatives.

Ohio is a Disability Inclusion State and strives to be a Model Employer of Individuals with disabilities. The State of Ohio is committed to providing access and inclusion and reasonable accommodation in its services, activities, programs, and employment opportunities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to utilize the Careers.Ohio.Gov Website Portal, send an email to odi@das.ohio.gov .

ODOT's Mission Statement:
To provide a transportation system that is safe, accessible, well maintained, and positioned for the future.

Benefits to you:
-At least a 14% employer contribution in to your OPERS pension plan
-Work/Life Balance
-The opportunity to work on an important mission

Official Position Description:

This is a repost. Applicants who applied for previous postings do not need to re-apply.

Maintains & completes daily log & work record; cleans, repairs & performs general maintenance on equipment needing minor repairs &/or adjustments by using various hand tools (e.g., wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers); when necessary, relieves employees during emergency situations; operates radio in state vehicle & base station at county location; answers telephone; takes & delivers messages; assists county operations clerk at garage locations; performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Flags & directs vehicular traffic through highway maintenance & construction work sites on State & Federal highway & interstate routes; follows established safety procedures to control moving traffic with various traffic control devices & structures (e.g., barricades, cones, signage, pavement markings, electrical warning devices); performs general labor by using various hand tools (e.g., shovels, rakes) in maintenance & repair of highways (e.g., patches potholes, spreads berm gravel, repairs & paints guardrails, picks up trash/litter & places in dumpster); operates state vehicle to travel to work sites.

Performs general maintenance on equipment, building structures & grounds &/or custodial work (e.g., sweeps garage floor; uses mower to mow grass & uses weedeater to trim around sidewalks, trees & shrubs; maintains & trims shrubbery & trees; washes windows; cleans offices; removes trash; shovels snow from sidewalks, steps & pedestrian walkways; rakes leaves; paints building structures; cleans & refuels equipment).

This Position is Unclassified per Section 124.11(A)(29)

Qualifications
Formal education in arithmetic that includes addition & subtraction & in reading, writing & speaking common English vocabulary. Note: If involved in driving motorized snow & ice control equipment, must also have valid commercial driver's license. In accordance with Section 124.11(B)(2) of Revised Code, Director of Administrative Services has determined this classification to be unskilled labor class & therefore exempt from written examination.

-Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above.

Job Skills: Transportation