Traffic Control Specialist

Position: Full Time with Overtime

Wages: $19 an hour

Company Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Additional Night Differential Pay
• Employee Stock Options
• 401(k) Match
• Work Boot and Glasses Voucher
• Medical & Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Voluntary Term Life
• Long Term Disability
• Sick Leave
• Additional Benefits including wellness coaching, etc.

Job description

We want you, to help us make a difference in the State of Maine. Join an industry leading construction team building some of Maine's biggest road projects. You will be responsible for keeping a project running, by protecting workers and the traveling public using traffic control devices. You will work with a traffic team, placing cones, setting up signs and barrels, laying out construction markings, monitoring traffic patterns, and overall assistance with project coordinators and crews. You will get to work outside every day, with a hardworking, well-payed group of people. There are many opportunities for advancement. With a positive attitude and hard work, you can enjoy a rewarding career. Go home every day with a job you can be proud of!

General Description

Traffic Control personnel needed to work with a Lewiston based construction company.

Key Duties

• Assist project personnel with traffic control
• Set up sign packages, cones, barrels and maintain traffic control devices
• Operate traffic control vehicles
• Inspect and secure work zones
• Demonstrates safety 1st
• Nighttime hours are possible
• Weekend work is rare, but possible

Qualification Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each Key Duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience

• Must be able to understand work directions and communicate effectively with job site supervisors and fellow employees. Previous construction experience may increase starting pay, but no experience is required.

Physical Demands

The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by Traffic Control personnel to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Constant physical effort, including standing, is required during a regular work shift of at least eight hours per day. Employee must be able to stand for extended periods of time, and to stoop, bend, and crouch as required to perform Key Duties.
• Frequently work with hands extended overhead, sometimes in conjunction with the operation of hand power tools.
• Ability to lift at least 50 pounds individually and up to 90 pounds with assistance.
• Manual dexterity to hand-carry generators, lumber and other construction materials, forms, power tools, and hand tools.
• Maintain constant alertness to the multiple concurrent activities of the construction site, including the activities of other employees and contractors, the operation of stationary equipment, and the movement of mobile equipment.
• Frequently walk on uneven surfaces, including natural ground in varying weather conditions.
• Must be able to climb on and off heavy mobile equipment safely.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those that Traffic Control personnel encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Work is performed outdoors in all weather conditions.
• Work environment periodically exposes the employees to high levels of noise, grease, and dust that is typically associated with a construction project.
• Employee regularly works near heavy equipment and moving machinery.
• Work may involve a variety of substances commonly found on construction sites or equipment shop such as form oil, grease, curing compounds, gasoline, diesel fuel and asphalt.

We promote a Drug-Free Workplace.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability are encouraged to apply.