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K307 Maintenance Regional Transportation Tech I, II or III - Maintenance Division

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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Location
Houston, TX
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Job overview

The Texas Department of Transportation seeks a Regional Transportation Technician at level I, II, or III to travel with regional crews throughout Texas and perform transportation operations and maintenance support. Work includes roadway maintenance and repair, equipment operation and maintenance, traffic control, and assistance during emergencies. Higher levels perform more complex work, may inspect traffic-control devices, lead crews, and train employees.

Skills & qualifications

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Skills

Roadway MaintenanceEquipment OperationEquipment MaintenanceTraffic ControlRoadway Repair

Full job description

MNT Regional Transportation Tech ITravels with Regional Crews throughout the state to perform routine transportation operations or maintenance support work such as roadway maintenance and repair; light and heavy equipment operation; preventive and minor maintenance on equipment; traffic control; and helping the public during emergency situations. Work requires extensive travel. Work requires contact with private entities. Employees at this level follow standard practices that do not require frequent supervision of details.MNT Regional Transportation Tech IITravels with Regional Crews throughout the state to perform moderately complex transportation operations or maintenance support work such as maintenance contract and/or material and process inspections; roadway maintenance and repair; light and heavy equipment operation; preventive and minor maintenance on equipment, traffic control; and helping the public during emergency situations. Work requires extensive travel. Work requires contact with private entities. Employees at this level perform work independently on assignments; however, all unusual issues are referred to the supervisor.MNT Regional Transportation Tech IIITravels with Regional Crews throughout the state to perform highly complex transportation operations or maintenance support work such as contract maintenance and/or material and process inspection; roadway maintenance and repair. Operates light and heavy equipment; preventative and minor maintenance on equipment; traffic control; helping the public during emergency situations; and training other employees. Work requires extensive travel. Work requires contact with private entities. Employees at this level perform work independently on assignments; however, all unusual issues are referred to the supervisor.Essential Duties:MNT Regional Transportation Tech I:Assists with traffic control; places and gathers cones, warning signs and barricades; flags traffic. Inspects barricades to ensure compliance with barricade standards. Operates light equipment such as a front-end loader-one and a quarter cubic yard or less, pneumatic roller, rotary broom, spreader box, backhoe, street sweeper, and mower. Performs preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), routine servicing and minor repairs on equipment and completes various required reports including timekeeping, equipment forms, inventory, accident forms, and PMI. Sands or cleans bridges and roads, posts warning signs, helps the public and performs other work as directed during emergency situations such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents, and hazardous material spills. Maintains highways and rights-of-way; performs highly skilled roadway repairs; performs highway striping operations; erects and repairs guard rails, highway markers and signs; hauls materials and equipment to job sites. Performs other job responsibilities as assigned. MNT Regional Transportation Tech II:All of the above and:Assists in inspecting traffic control devices and their placement at construction project sites for compliance with specifications for devices, safety laws, rules, regulations and the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Operates heavy equipment such as a front-end loader-one and a half cubic yard or more, tractor-trailer haul truck, large dragline, shovel, paint striper, and dump truck. MNT Regional Transportation Tech III:All of the above and:May serve as a work crew project lead ensuring work performed meets project specifications. Trains other employees. Operates complex heavy equipment such as a motor grader, large excavator, heavy bulldozer, crane, herbicide truck, heavy asphalt paving machine, self-propelled asphalt distributor, and profiling/milling machine.

How this job compares

Set against the 6,831 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$58–80K/yr301 salary ranges
  • Texas median$27–34/hr191 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 592 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Texas and 6,831 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (3,743 postings).
Education
26 of the 6,831 open Maintenance Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 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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