Assistant Highway District Superintendent - Jefferson County

TARGET CLOSE DATE:

12/10/2025

PAY GRADE:

Grade 25

TYPE:

Full time

JOB SUMMARY:

Jefferson County Assistant Highway District Superintendents are responsible for assisting in the planning and organizing of day-to-day operations of a Highway Maintenance Division. This includes the preparation and monitoring of a departmental budget, the procurement and management of department resources, and the planning and coordination of projects within the department. Employees are tasked with ensuring that the building, repair, and maintenance of roadways and rights-of-way are completed in a timely and efficient manner throughout the areas they serve. Assistant Highway District Superintendents have a supervisory responsibility, and are responsible for planning and overseeing the work of personnel engaged in highway maintenance and construction projects. Additionally, Assistant Highway District Superintendents receive managerial direction with assignments in terms of broad practice, precedents, policies, and goals.

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 presented below:

Jefferson County $63,980 - $99,236

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

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

• Possession of a Commercial Driver's License (Class A).

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

• 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 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 Merit System agencies. These qualifications may be considered by a 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.

• Over five years of construction inspection experience.

• Over five years of experience in construction management including construction cost saving estimation.

• Experience implementing standards and practices for roadway maintenance and construction to include ALDOT Standard Construction Specifications, MUTCD, AASHTTO roadside design guidelines.

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

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:

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.