Maintenance Manager Assistant

About the role

Make a meaningful impact with the Iowa Department of Transportation, where our mission is Making Lives Better Through Transportation. We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Maintenance Manager Assistant who will play a key role in supporting daily maintenance operations across the district. The ideal candidate will demonstrate actions and behaviors guided by our core values: Safety First, People Matter, Customer Focused, Servant Leadership, and Integrity Without Exception. If you are committed to helping support essential services that keep Iowa moving, we invite you to consider this opportunity.

Location: Fairfield

Shift Requirements

8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday, travel as needed

As an Engineering Office Assistant 2 – Maintenance Manager Assistant your duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Provide comprehensive administrative and operational support to the District Maintenance Manager and District Operations Manager, including preparing spreadsheets, generating reports, and analyzing maintenance activity data using Microsoft Office, RMS, Workday, and other required systems.
• Assist in planning, developing, and monitoring district maintenance operations, including budget tracking, reviewing expenditures, maintaining annual work program data, and supporting resource prioritization.
• Coordinate purchasing activities by obtaining quotes, preparing purchase orders and vouchers, tracking materials, and ensuring accurate communication of procurement details to garages, HMS staff, and budget personnel.
• Update and maintain district records related to winter operations, material inventories, vehicle service and inspection needs, sign inventory tracking, and Adopt-A-Highway program documentation.
• Provide frontline technical support to field staff by training employees on software/hardware systems, maintaining expert-level understanding of related applications, and assisting with access issues.
• Support personnel and administrative functions including FTE management, staffing updates, overtime monitoring, training coordination, agreement review with external agencies, and preparation of required correspondence and memoranda.

As a State of Iowa employee, you will be eligible for the following benefits:

• Competitive pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance
• Insurance benefits start the first month following 30 days of employment and costs can be reviewed here.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Paid time off effective immediately - biweekly vacation, separate sick leave, accruals rollover on a yearly basis, and 9 paid holidays per year.
• Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS) Retirement Package with employer match
• Optional 401A plan with employer contributions.
• Employee Discount Programs from a variety of vendors (vision, cellular, fitness, recreation, season passes, travel, counseling; legal, financial).

Additional information

We encourage you to view more about the State of Iowa Employee benefits and costs at the State of Iowa Employee Benefits Website!

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Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

• All of the following (a and b):
• Graduation from high school, GED, or equivalency; and
• A total of five years of full-time experience in highway design, maintenance, construction, or materials; or administrative support in inventory management, training programs, administrative recordkeeping or closely related areas.
• A total of five years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university coursework in any field equals one year of full-time experience.
• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes eighteen months of full-time work as an Engineering Office Assistant 1 or three years of full-time work experience in highway design, maintenance, construction, or materials.

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