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Highway Maintenance Supvr 2

Grade 15

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Career Ladder

A listing of titles that are most commonly used as steps for upward mobility for this title series. The salary schedule for this career ladder is also available.

  1. Highway Maintenance Worker Trainee 1

    Similar to Grade 06

  2. Highway Maintenance Worker Trainee 2

    Similar to Grade 07

  3. Highway Maintenance Worker 1

    Grade 08

  4. Highway Maintenance Worker 2

    Grade 10

  5. Highway Maintenance Supvr 1

    Grade 13

  6. Highway Maintenance Supvr 2

    Grade 15

Summary of Job Description

As a Highway Maintenance Supervisor 2, you would supervise several subordinate Maintenance Supervisors and their crews in maintenance and repair projects on or adjacent to state highways or structural units. Such projects may include any of the following: widening, surfacing, and resurfacing highways; extending or building shoulders; installing curbing; erecting signs; removing trees; erecting guiderails; building and repairing culverts; repairing drainage systems; erecting cribbing; doing major excavation work; cleaning stream beds; and plowing snow and treating icy pavement. You would plan and schedule work and maintain electronic work records. You would be required to answer emergency calls outside of your regular hours of work. You may be required to operate heavy dump trucks, perform one-person snow plowing, and operate other highway equipment.

View the classification standard for this title, on the Classification and Compensation webpage.

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Summary of Minimum Qualifications

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

You must take and pass a Civil Service examination in order to be considered for this position.

On or before the date of the examination, the candidate must be a qualified employee of the New York State Department of Transportation and have had three months of permanent competitive, non-competitive, 55-b/55-c, or labor class service as a Highway Maintenance Supervisor 1, Tree Pruner Supervisor, Supervising Equipment Operator Instructor, Bridge Repair Supervisor 1, or Equipment Operator Instructor.

For informational purposes only, click on the examination number(s) listed below to see the current or previous examination(s) that are used to fill this title.

38-405

How to Apply

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Career Mobility

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