Serves as Assistant Resident Maintenance Engineer and assists the Resident Maintenance Engineer with organizing, planning, and coordinating the activities of employees of a county maintenance unit with the goal of business plan completion. Ensures that the unit is operating effectively and efficiently during normal and emergency operations. Manages the maintenance contract process. Work includes preparing quantities, inspecting contract work, and processing payments for contracts such as routine mowing, brush management, herbicide operations, concrete repair, guardrail mowing, litter removal, and any other contract work to be performed. Manages the maintenance daytime roadway inspection process. Work includes completing the inspections and creating appropriate work requests for any identified deficiencies. Responsible for personnel matters including Employee Performance Management System (EPMS) reviews, position description creation/updates, and various other personnel procedures. Handles coaching, counseling, and/or disciplinary actions as appropriate. Supervises the encroachment permit process and associated inspection activities, including the implementation of necessary engineering directives for all SCDOT roads in the county. Assists Resident Maintenance Engineer in researching data and providing technical assistance in preparing reports for budgets, roadway resurfacing projects, and other short and long-term programs, such as raised pavement markers, crack seal quantities, thermoplastic quantities, and paint line quantities. Assists Resident Maintenance Engineer in investigating public complaints, work requests, and damage claims. Recommends corrective action and ensures completion. Assists with communication with the County Transportation Committee (CTC) as necessary. Assists with managing emergency and/or inclement weather operations. Performs other related duties as assigned.A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Construction Science and Management and three (3) years of engineering or construction management work experience; or an approved acceptable equivalence.
The physical demands for the essential functions involves sitting or standing at a desk for extended periods of time. This position may require occasional travel. May require bending, stooping, reaching, twisting, climbing, balancing, and kneeling. Walking for extended periods, treading rough terrain, working in close proximity to motoring traffic, and in natural environmental hazards. May be required to work outside normal business hours or respond to emergency situations.
The South Carolina Department of Transportation is committed to a diverse workforce and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
