About the Role
The D.A. Collins Family of Companies has brought safety, quality, and productivity to industrial, infrastructure, highway, and bridge construction for over 75 years. We are seeking a reliable individual for a position as a Maintenance & Traffic Protection Foreperson to join a dedicated and hard-working team in Wilton Campus. If you are serious about your next job, D.A. Collins Family of Companies is an ideal place to grow your career.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily safety meetings and ensure compliance with OSHA and company safety policies.
- Lead Maintenance & Traffic Protection (MPT) crews on heavy highway and bridge construction projects.
- Implement and maintain work zone traffic control plans in accordance with NYSDOT standards.
- Install, maintain, inspect, and remove temporary traffic control devices, including signs, cones, drums, barricades, temporary barrier, arrow boards, and message boards.
- Coordinate lane closures, detours, traffic shifts, and work zone changes.
- Conduct daily inspections to ensure traffic control devices remain compliant throughout each shift.
- Coordinate with Superintendents, Project Managers, paving crews, bridge crews, subcontractors, and law enforcement when necessary.
- Maintain traffic safely while minimizing disruption to the traveling public.
- Manage crew productivity, equipment, and traffic control inventory.
- Complete daily reports and documentation related to traffic control activities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of traffic control or heavy highway construction experience.
- Previous experience leading MPT, traffic control, highway maintenance, or roadway construction crews.
- Thorough understanding of NYSDOT Work Zone Traffic Control Standards.
- Thorough understanding of MUTCD requirements.
- Thorough understanding of lane closures and traffic shifts.
- Thorough understanding of temporary traffic control devices.
- Thorough understanding of work zone safety.
- Ability to interpret traffic control plans and project drawings.
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Valid driver's license.
Skills
- Leadership
- Communication
- Organizational skills
Location
- Wilton, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive wage commensurate with experience.
- Prevailing Wage
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company-funded retirement plan
- Company paid health, dental and vision insurance
About the Company
- The D.A. Collins Family of Companies has brought safety, quality and productivity to industrial, infrastructure, highway, and bridge construction for over 75 years.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
