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Department: Roadway Operations

Location: Wichita Headquarters

Definition and Examples of Work

• Manages designated team members to include directing work assignments, coaching and development, and decisions impacting employee status, including hiring, promotions, compensation adjustments, and terminations.
• Provides leadership to include coaching and counseling to maintenance superintendents and foremen, and IMC supervisors and leads.
• Reviews and approves purchases for designated departments in alignment with purchasing policies, procedures, and regulations; provides budgetary oversight and review.
• Manages fleet and contracts for the designated departments.
• Works closely with other departments to ensure equipment and facilities are maintained and in good working order.
• Prepares budget estimates of departmental project and staffing needs, prepares reports of operations, and maintains related records.
• Attends leadership team meeting, participating in organizational strategic planning.
• Ensures compliance with health and safety regulations as well as establish relationships with vendors and contractors.
• Additional duties may be assigned as business needs require.

Latitude and Impact of Position

This position works independently and as part of a team, including providing input and problem solving with others to complete tasks. The position delegates to others, provides coaching and training in a formal/informal manner, and is responsible for providing performance feedback. Makes decisions involving hiring, firing, promotion, and all other employee status changes. Negotiation and persuasion is used with internal/external customers and/or vendors. Decision making is typically done in independently in regard to decisions affecting the individual and department work tasks in alignment with company policy. Purchasing decisions may be made involving commitments up to \$25,000. Makes decisions involving write-off, waiver of charges, or contractual commitments. Leads short- and long-term departmental planning and participates in organizational planning. Successful completion of job tasks may significantly impact operating costs, monetary effect, internal system, processes and procedures, customer satisfaction, management decisions, external company image and liability.

Work Environment

The work environment described here is representative of the general work environment for the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Primarily works in office environment while using computers and related peripherals and other office equipment.
• Occasionally works outdoors at maintenance work sites or construction projects in all types of weather conditions and may be exposed to high heat, extreme cold, high humidity, dust, moderate noise.
• Personal protective equipment may be required (occasional).

Physical requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to sit for long periods of time (continuous)
• Standing or walking, sometimes over uneven terrain (occasional)
• Occasional bending, twisting, turning, kneeling, squatting, reaching overhead
• Must be able to hear others and communicate (continuous)
• Must be able to see up close and visualize computer screen (continuous)
• Must be able to differentiate colors and shapes (occasional)
• Occasionally uses distance vi ion, peripheral vision, depth perception
• Ability to adjust focus (occasional)
• Must be able to distinguish sound tones (occasional)
• Lifts carries, pushes or pull up to 50 pounds (occasional)

Other Requirements

• Regular travel by vehicle
• Manages 24/7 operations and must be available for call out at all hours
• Work beyond standard business hours (occasional)

KTA is looking for hard working, eager individuals to join our team. Come join a family cultured organization with excellent benefits, and pay. KTA participates in the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS). KTA only accepts applications for full-time employment when there is a current opening and always accepts preliminary applications for part-time toll collector. Applications are kept on file for 60 days. The number of part-time hours available is contingent upon scheduling needs and applicants availability but will not exceed 29 hours per week. If contacted for possible employment, an official application will be required.

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