Transportation Maintainer 2 (40 Hour) Central Warehouse #188 Recruitment # 240917-2346FM-002 Location Rocky Hill, CT Date Opened 9/23/2024 12:00:00 AM Salary $57,724* - $74,956/year *Individuals new to state employment start at minimum salary range. Job Type Open to the Public Close Date 10/2/2024 11:59:00 PM Go Back Apply View Benefits (https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/jobs/?b=Benefits) + + + + Introduction Do you have experience receiving daily deliveries, maintaining accurate inventory levels, general housekeeping and landscaping duties? If so, we want you on our team! The State of Connecticut (https://portal.ct.gov/) , Department of Transportation (DOT) (https://portal.ct.gov/dot) , invites qualified applicants to apply for a Transportation Maintainer 2 (https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/specs/classspecdisplay.asp?ClassNumber=2346FM&R1=&R3=) position in the Materials Management Unit, Central Warehouse located in Rocky Hill, CT. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CDL CLASS, ISSUING STATE (IF APPLICABLE), LICENSE NUMBER, EXPIRATION DATE, AND ALL ENDORSEMENTS AND MEC EXPIRATION DATE ARE ADDED TO THE “LICENSES AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS” SECTION OF YOUR APPLICATION. PLEASE LIST ANY OTHER JOB-RELEVANT LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS IN THE “LICENSES AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS” SECTION AS WELL. WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU: + Visit our new State Employee Benefits Overview page! + The opportunity to work for a Forbes top company: 'Forbes' State of Connecticut Ranked One of the Best Employers of 2023 (https://portal.ct.gov/DAS/Press-Room/Press-Releases/2023/Forbes-State-of-CT-Ranked) - State of CT Receives National Recognition for Offering Job Growth, Competitive Benefits, and Flexible Schedule + Professional growth and development opportunitie s + A healthy work/life balance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6n9M1Qd5fo) to all employees + Join an award winning agency! CTDOT was recently awarded the Employer of the Year award by the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE (https://sections.asce.org/connecticut/awards) )! ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: + CANDIDATES MUST INDICATE THEY HOLD A CURRENT AND VALID COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE (CDL) WITH TANK ENDORSEMENT IN THE "LICENSES AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS" SECTION OF THE APPLICATION, OR THEY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. + APPLICANTS INVITED TO INTERVIEW WILL BE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE A COPY OF THEIR CURRENT VALID COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE (CDL) CLASS A OR B, REFLECTING THE "TANK ENDORSEMENT," AND VALID MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CARD (MEC) AT TIME OF INTERVIEW, OR THEY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. + Incumbents in this class must be willing to accept assignment to emergency duties, including snow and ice removal, whenever his or her services are needed; to include mandatory winter overtime from November 1 through April 30. Various storm events will require employees to stay at work for the duration of the storm; which at times could be up to a period of several days, to include holidays and weekends. + Incumbents in this class will be required to have a 20-mile residency from the posted job location. + Candidates will be required to bring a copy of their Master Application at the time of interview and a thoroughly completed Connecticut Department of Transportation Commercial Driver Supplement (CTDOT-CDL-1). POSITION HIGHLIGHTS: + Monday-Friday + Full-time (40 hours/week) + 1st Shift (7:30am-4:00pm) + Location: Rocky Hill, CT ABOUT THE ROLE: This position is assigned to the Materials Management Unit located in Rocky Hill, CT. Incumbents will be responsible for performing a full range of various materials management duties, both manual and clerical. Duties include receiving daily deliveries, stocking commodities, issuing a variety of materials and supplies to various operations and facilities, maintaining accurate inventory levels both manually and electronically, CoreCT time entry, and general housekeeping and landscaping duties. + Receive vendor deliveries of Stores commodities; verify commodities against purchase order, breakdown and unpack shipment, verify condition, check quantity count, check part numbers, identify Stores catalog numbers to tag each item and physically put-away stock in appropriate storage locations. + Perform cycle counts to ensure inventory control. + Operate forklift, Hi Lift, truck and other warehouse equipment. + Travel to other stockrooms and vendor locations to obtain/deliver parts and supplies for stockroom and customer requirements. + Provide backup coverage in satellite stockroom operations as needed. + Perform stockroom housekeeping duties (clean and maintain shelves, bins and other storage space). + Perform landscaping and grounds keeping duties such as mowing, weeding, shoveling, and raking along with operating hand and power tools. + Mandatory overtime is required November 1 through April 30 in this operation to support the Agency’s snow and ice program. + Office duties: answer telephones, operate fax machine and copier, take messages, and perform data entry. + Utilize CoreCT – Inventory Management Module in maintaining inventory control of parts and supplies. 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 (https://portal.ct.gov/ethics) . Visit our website (https://portal.ct.gov/DOT) to learn more about the Connecticut DOT! Watch the video below to see what it's like to be a State of Connecticut employee! Selection Plan + These positions will be filled in accordance with contractual language, reemployment, SEBAC, transfer, promotion and merit employment rules. Applications to this recruitment will be used to meet collective bargaining requirements. Once any collective bargaining requirements have been met, all other applicants may be considered. + 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. To Apply: + The minimum experience and training requirements must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified. + Ensure that your application is complete and detailed before submitting it. In order to comply with Public Act 21-69 (https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/act/pa/pdf/2021PA-00069-R00SB-00056-PA.pdf) , the State 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. + 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 Talent Acquisition Professional listed on this job posting. + 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: + Please read (https://www.jobapscloud.com/ct/sup/applicanttips2023november.pdf) or watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8sOb10qYXQ) our Applicant Tips on How to Apply. 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. + Read through this helpful link to prepare for your interview (https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/jobs/?b=IT&preview=1) . + The immediate vacancy is listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class. + Candidates who are offered and accept a position with the State of Connecticut are bound by the State Code of Ethics for Public Officials and State Employees which is available at www.ct.gov/ethics (https://portal.ct.gov/ethics) . 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 Anamaria Giangarra at Anamaria.giangarra@ct.gov. PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK) In the Department of Transportation and the Connecticut Airport Authority this class is accountable for performing a variety of moderately skilled tasks in the construction, maintenance, and repair of state roadsides, roadways, bridges, airports, and other departmental facilities; operates and maintains complex mechanical equipment; works as a moderately skilled mechanic in garages in the routine repair of mechanical equipment. EXAMPLES OF DUTIES The following is a listing of examples of trucks, equipment, tasks or related duties, the operating, maintaining or performing of which are considered to be the responsibilities and duties of positions in this class: TRUCKS: + Three (3) ton to nine (9) ton trucks, dump, platform or refuse with or without winch; + All of the above when using the following attachments: + Snow plows; + Duo Dump Truck; + Crash Attenuators; + Trailers and towed equipment (except tilt bed trailers); + Pickup, (to include two (2) & four (4) wheel drive vehicles) when using: + Trailers or towed equipment; + Snowplows or hopper type spreaders; + Bridge utility truck; + Compressor trucks; + Aerial bucket trucks; + Wreckers with winch; + Tandem/10-Wheel Dump Truck. EQUIPMENT: + Bituminous curbing machines; + Pothole Patcher; + Tractor Mowers with single flail; + Wood chippers; + Chain saws; + Culvert cleaning machines; + Compressors, and/or compressor tools; + Concrete mixers; + Concrete vibrators; + Hydraulic or engine driven tools; + Test Boring; + Class twenty four (24) tractor including attachments; + Wing plow or other side mounted attachments; + Fork lift. DUTIES: + Survey monument setting; + Burning and cutting with acetylene torch; + Flagger (traffic control); + May assist a Material Storage Supervisor with stores section material handling; + Performing moderately skilled tasks in one or more of the following areas or trades: + Construction; + Maintenance; + Mechanical repair; + Electrical; + Carpentry; + Masonry; + Welding; + Plumbing; + Painting; + Relief ferry mate, drawbridge attendant and/or rest area attendant; + In addition to other duties, may assist a Transportation General Supervisor, Transportation Garage Supervisor, or Transportation District Electrical Supervisor in preparing and checking various reports or operating a two-way radio in a District Maintenance unit; + Wildlife hazard control; + Radio monitoring and communication; + Escort vendors, contractors, etc. in secure areas (state owned airports only); + In addition to other duties, may function as a guard/watchperson or be required to receive training in, stand by for and respond to fire and/or crash emergency situations at state-owned airports; + Performs related duties as required (https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/specs/classspecdisplay.asp?ClassNumber=2346FM&R1=&R3=) . KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY + Knowledge of + the construction, maintenance, and repair techniques of roadsides, roadways, bridges, or airports; + the processes and materials used in the construction and maintenance trades; + Skills + interpersonal skills; + oral and written communication skills; + Ability to + use and make routine repairs to complex mechanical equipment; + operate equipment as listed on the attached addendum; + understand and follow written and oral instructions; + utilize computer software. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE One (1) year of experience in the construction, landscaping, commercial driving, snow plowing, maintenance and repair of roadsides, roadways, bridges or airports, in work involving the operation and care of mechanical equipment or work in one of the recognized maintenance trades. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED + Graduation from a vocational or technical school with a diploma designating completion of the subject requirements in one of the maintenance trades may be substituted for the General Experience. + Successful completion of the Transportation Maintenance Registered Apprenticeship Program approved by the Department of Administrative Services may be substituted for the General Experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS + Equipment experience: Forklift, Hi-Reach Truck, Bobcat, Payloader + Experience with CoreCT or other computerized purchasing and inventory management systems + Experience with Warehouse/Stockroom Operations + Experience in Microsoft Office Products; Outlook, Word, and Excel SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS + Incumbents in this class may be required by the appointing authority to possess and retain appropriate current licenses, permits and/or certifications. + Incumbents in this class must be willing to accept assignment to emergency duties, including snow and ice removal, whenever their services are required. CHARACTER REQUIREMENTS At state airports: In addition to the checking of references and of facts stated in the application, a thorough background investigation of each candidate may be made before persons are certified for appointment. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS + Incumbents in this class must have adequate physical strength, stamina, physical agility and visual and auditory acuity, and must maintain such physical fitness in order to perform the duties of the class. + A physical examination will be required. WORKING CONDITIONS + Incumbents in this class are exposed to extremes of weather conditions, to frequent lifting of heavy weights, to highly dangerous road and traffic conditions, including exposure to heights when working on bridges, to poison ivy, insect bites and allergy irritants during summer months, and to loud and potentially dangerous machinery. + The appointing authority may require completion of an asbestos removal program consistent with EPA guidelines for operations and maintenance during employment in this class. Incumbents may be required to use protective equipment such as respirators and safety goggles. 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 responsibility. Click on a link below to apply for this position: Fill out the Supplemental Questionnaire and Application NOW using the Internet. Apply Online