Maintenance and Operations Superintendent (PCN 25-2162)

ATTENTION ALL ALASKA RESIDENTS!

T he Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) Northern Region Highways and Aviation is looking for a Maintenance and Operations Superintendent to help us
Keep Alaska Moving!

What you will be doing:
Under the general direction of the Regional Maintenance and Operations Chief, you will oversee the management of maintenance personnel and resources across a vast area encompassing over 665 miles of roadway, 47 airports, and multiple maintenance stations. Your expertise will ensure that airport, highway, and facility projects are completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards, working closely with contractors and internal teams. With a $11 million budget and oversight of federal, state, and local funding, youll have the opportunity to manage large-scale projects and implement innovative strategies for cost-effective maintenance and safety improvements. Field inspections and data-driven evaluations will guide your decisions to enhance road and airport conditions, while your leadership in equipment management and personnel administration will foster a motivated, compliant, and safety-conscious team. If youre passionate about improving transportation systems in Alaska and thrive in a leadership role that challenges and rewards, this is your chance to make a lasting difference.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The DOT&PF Northern Region Highways & Aviation Division is proud to support and lead a team of dedicated professionals whose daily efforts embody our core mission: "Keep Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure." We are committed to fostering a collaborative and innovative culture that values diverse skills and perspectives. Guided by principles of excellence, safety, and integrity, we strive to deliver reliable infrastructure and exceptional service, ensuring Alaskas transportation network continues to connect communities and support our states growth and resilience.

The benefits of joining our team:

Joining the Maintenance and Operations team as a Superintendent offers more than just a leadership opportunity it provides a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive environment dedicated to your growth and well-being. We emphasize a healthy work-life balance through moderately flexible work schedules, and our fostering environment encourages continuous personal and professional development. This is an opportunity to expand your skills, advance your career, and make a meaningful impact.

The working environment you can expect:

This position is based in Nome, Alaska. Day to day, it involves the oversight of highway and airport maintenance and operations under a range of conditions, including response to winter storms, management of summer construction projects, and emergency situations. The office environment features a balanced integration of on-site and teleworking staff who support our foremen and operators, ensuring year-round coverage through various alternate work week schedules. Additionally, the role requires the ability to travel to remote duty stations within the district, utilizing transportation methods such as driving, small aircraft, or commercial flights.

Who we are looking for:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all, of the following position specific competencies:

Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.

Managing Performance: Takes responsibility for employees performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable, tracking progress against the goals, supporting employees efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources, removing obstacles, acting as a buffer, etc.), ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.

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Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications . P lease ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competencys description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation. Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• General Engineering: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of engineering and their practical applications.
• Managing Human Resources: Plans, distributes, coordinates, and monitors work assignments of others; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner.
• Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
• Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
• Road Work and Pavement: Knowledge of materials, methods, and appropriate tools to construct, maintain, or repair road surfaces, including sidewalks, parking lots, runways, etc.
• Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including costs and limits.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in highway, street, utility, or airport maintenance, operations, design, or construction; project and/or program management/administration, engineering; construction management; business administration, or other closely related field.

Special Note:

Competencies means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

Typically gained by means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Training and education in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

**NOTE: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**

At time of interview, applicants are requested to provide:

• A current copy of your drivers license .

ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY

Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
For your application to be evaluated you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska (SOA) uses four levels of proficiency to measure and describe an applicants level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are: Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You will need to rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.

EDUCATION

To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE
If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employers name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported, and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

EEO STATEMENT
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call ... or 465-4095 in Juneau or ... (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P. O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information

For specific information about this position, please contact the hiring manager at the following:

Name: Jason Sakalaskas, P.E. Maintenance and Operations Chief
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