
Trades Helper E6 - Metro Region
Auburn Hills, MIFull-time$22.72–29.13/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Trades Helper E6 assists skilled tradespeople with emergency, routine, and preventive maintenance at MDOT pump stations and rest areas. The role also includes grounds maintenance and backup support for winter maintenance operations. Candidates need one year of laborer experience assisting construction, electrical, or mechanical trades, and must hold a Commercial Learner’s Permit at hire before obtaining the specified CDL within twelve months.
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Full job description
This position assists skilled trades people responsible for performing emergency, routine and preventative maintenance at Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) pumpstations and rest areas. Responsibilities also include performing ground maintenance at pumpstations and rest areas and providing backup for winter maintenance operations.
Operate a vehicle or vehicle/trailer combination with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of 26,001 pounds or more (e.g., pickup truck with trailer, snowplow) when performing emergency repairs for pump stations and rest areas or maintenance operations.
The "Salary" listed above is a range that reflects the minimum rate through the maximum rate of the Trades Helper E6 position.For additional information, please see the links below:
- Transportation Helper E6 position description
- All about MDOT
For information on benefits, visit www.mi.gov/employeebenefits or www.mi.gov/orsstatedc. The State of Michigan has been recognized as a leading U.S. employer by new graduates from 2021-2023 and a best large U.S. and state employer. Recognized on the international stage for fostering positive employee engagement, the State of Michigan is a past recipient of a North America Government Agency Employees Engagement Award.
Education No specific type or amount is required.
Experience One year of experience as a laborer assisting in the construction, electrical, or mechanical trades. To be considered for this position you must:
- Possess a Commercial Learner’s Permit at the time of hire. Continuing employment requires possession of a CDL Group A with N or X endorsement and no air break restrictions which must be obtained within twelve months from the date of hire.
View the entire job specification at: https://www.michigan.gov/mdcs/-/media/Project/Websites/mdcs/JOBSPECS/T/TradesHelper.pdf
MDOT does not participate in E-Verify and does not sponsor visa applications.
This position is a Test-Designated Position. The selected candidate may be required to submit to and pass a pre-employment/pre-appointment drug test and physical (if applicable) and will be subject to random drug and alcohol testing while employed in this position. Criminal and driving records will also be checked if applicable. Any position offer will be conditional until results of the drug test, physical, criminal background, and driving records indicate eligibility for employment.
The department reserves the right to close this posting prior to its original end date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Your application for any position does not guarantee that you will be contacted by the Department for further consideration. Only those applicants interviewed will be notified of the results.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind is prohibited in all areas of the selection process including, but not limited to, responses to application questions and responses to interview questions or exercises.
If you have questions related to this posting, please contact [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 11,879 open Maintenance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$22.72–29.13/hr
- Michigan median$15–18/hr121 hourly ranges
- US median$18–20/hr3,936 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $25.92/hr, is 62% above the Michigan median midpoint ($16/hr) — in the top quarter of Maintenance hourly ranges in Michigan.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 433 open Maintenance jobs in Michigan and 11,879 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
- McDonald's271 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Maintenance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 2,481 postings).
- Education
- 209 of the 11,879 open Maintenance jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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