Highway District Superintendent - Jefferson County

TARGET CLOSE DATE:

08/22/2025

PAY GRADE:

Grade 28

TYPE:

Full time

JOB SUMMARY:

Jefferson County is seeking to hire a Highway District Superintendent to direct and supervise the work of subordinate supervisory and operational personnel engaged in the building, repair, and maintenance of Jefferson County roadways and right-of-ways. The Highway District Superintendent receives managerial direction with assignments in terms of broad practice, precedents, policies, and goals. The work of the Highway District Superintendent is performed with considerable independence and initiative in assisting in the accomplishment of program objectives. The Highway District Superintendent is assigned work through prepared drawings and specifications, written form, meetings, and oral directives.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

Jefferson County provides competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more. The pay range for this job is listed below:

Jefferson County $71,905 - $111,550

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

The following are job-related qualifications that are required for employment consideration for this position:

• Ability to obtain a commercial driver's license (Class A) within the first six months of employment.

• Ability to obtain IMS (Incident Management System) certification through the EMA (Emergency Management Agency) within the first 6 months of employment.

• Experience supervising highway construction and maintenance activities such as road construction, paving roads, controlling traffic zones, and enforcing traffic safety.

• Experience inspecting roadways to identify structural failures or deficiencies such as faults in subgrade and asphalt deterioration.

• Experience reading and interpreting blueprints for the purposes of highway construction, paving, signing, striping, and installing stormwater facilities.

• Experience developing an annual budget to include long-range planning that encompasses determining purchase of equipment, adequate staffing levels, and purchases of materials for the purposes of highway construction and maintenance.

• Experience supervising employees to include tasks such as providing feedback, giving performance appraisals, and administering disciplinary actions.

• Experience operating and performing preventative and routine maintenance on heavy construction equipment such as bulldozers, backhoes, trackhoes, track loaders, and asphalt spreaders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

The following are job-related qualifications deemed desirable by Jefferson County. These qualifications may be considered by the hiring agency when reviewing applications and inviting candidates to participate in subsequent steps in the selection processes.

• Experience supervising and managing construction crews of greater than 15 employees.

• Experience implementing standards and practices for roadway maintenance and construction including ALDOT Standard Construction Specifications, MUTCD, AASHTO Roadside design guide.

• Experience with administering NPDES permits and ensuring operation compliance with environmental permit requirements.

• Over five years of construction inspection experience.

• Over five years of experience in construction management and/or cost estimating.

TYPICAL JOB DUTIES:

• Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits.

• Provides service to internal and/or external customers.

• Procures and/or manages inventory (i.e., supplies and equipment) to ensure the products and services are available to meet the operational needs of each department.

• Ensures the maintenance of equipment and public works facility through collaboration of inspections with employees and the maintenance department.

• Initiates, plans, executes, and monitors work involved in the completion of projects.

• Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Job occasionally involves moderate physical exertion required for occasional prolonged periods of lifting, carrying, balancing, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling. Job may involve occasional lifting of items or objects weighing up to 50 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is conducted both indoors in office setting as well as regular field visits to external construction worksites. Work involves use of standard office equipment, such as computer, phone, copier, etc. Work may also involve the use of various hand tools such as hammer, screwdrivers, wrenches, etc. Workers may be exposed to weather conditions, such as extreme hot or cold temperatures, or other potentially hazardous conditions such as near roadway traffic, etc.

EEO STATEMENT:

The Personnel Board of Jefferson County provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment with the Personnel Board of Jefferson County, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Each Merit System member city/agency operate its own equal employment opportunity policies available on the individual city/agency website.

ACCOMMODATION:

To request an accommodation in the application or hiring process due to your own ongoing medical condition or disability, please contact our Accommodations Coordinator at ... or phone at ... (select option 1) Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. The accommodation process is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or accommodation in the job application process.

NOTE:

This job posting may close before, or be extended beyond, the listed Target Close Date based on the employment needs of the Merit System. More detail regarding this job is available by clicking Apply.

DISCLAIMER:

This job posting is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of the job duties, responsibilities, or skills and abilities required to do the job and may be changed at the discretion of the Personnel Board at any time.