OCDT9841 - Farewell Bend

The person in this position protects Oregon highways and structures by educating, monitoring, regulating and providing technical assistance to effect compliance with motor carrier laws, rules and regulations involving size, weight, registration, and safety laws and regulations.

• Analyze vehicles at platform scale facilities and portable scale sites. Within guidelines, independently determine appropriate type(s) of law enforcement action(s) including warnings, uniform traffic citations, placing vehicles or drivers out of service and/or detaining vehicles and drivers for noncompliance.
• Monitor weight station bypass routes; drive to remote duty assignment locations in state vehicles; perform routine patrol of assigned areas looking for overweight/oversize/unsafe commercial motor vehicles; may issue citation(s) and/or require operator to proceed to a weight station.
• Compute and collect scheduled bail money and issue receipts.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable federal and state laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures governing vehicle size and weight, overweight and over dimensional operations, inter-jurisdictional agreements, bail schedules, court procedures, vehicle registration and weight-distance tax. Use resources and information proficiently.
• Provide technical training to commercial motor vehicle drivers, owners and carrier officials as to laws pertaining to size and weight.  Advise industry representatives how to maximize the use of hauling equipment and minimize future violations.
• Prepare and provide officer reports and expert testimony representing ODOT in court concerning disputed citations.
• Research and respond to inquiries from courts, the motor carrier industry, other agencies, and the public regarding motor carrier laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

• This Announcement has Supplemental Information Required for Submission.  Online applicants will automatically be directed to the supplemental questionnaire; all others must select the link at the end of this announcement to access the questionnaire.

Your application materials should clearly describe how you meet these qualifications (please be specific)

• Two years of public contact/customer service experience which involved dealing with the public in person or by phone, providing information about services/programs, or explaining and/or applying laws, rules, regulations/procedures; AND experience or training using computers to retrieve and input data.
• Completion of an Associate's degree will substitute for one year of the public contact experience.
• Click the links at the bottom of the page to view or download any additional supplements or application for this job announcement.

Criminal Background and Driver's License Check

• You will be subject to a computerized Criminal Background and Driver's License check if offered employment.  Your driving record will be considered unacceptable for any of the following offenses.  Offenses include but are not limited to:

·         Misdemeanor or felony traffic offense in the last 36 months.  This includes reckless driving, driving under the influence of intoxicants, failing to perform the duties of a driver, criminal driving while suspended or revoked, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and other; or the equivalent.

·         Felony revocation of driving privileges or suspension caused by a felony or misdemeanor or the equivalent within the last 36 months.

·         More than 3 Class B traffic violations in the last 12 months or the equivalent.

·         Class A violation or the equivalent in the last 12 months.

BENEFITS WITH ODOT

How ODOT Contacts You

http://www.malheurco.org/

http://www.ontariooregon.com/

http://weiser.govoffice.com/

http://www.oregoncities.us/huntington/index.htm