Open house for hiring seasonal employment on Dec. 2 in Bloomington

BLOOMINGTON – The Illinois Department of Transportation is looking to hire 46 seasonal positions in District 5 to help with snow and ice removal in Champaign, DeWitt, Piatt and McLean counties. An open house hiring event will be held at IDOT’s Field Office in Bloomington on Dec.2.

Applications for snow removal operators and winter salaried highway maintainers, also known as snowbirds, must be completed online at illinois.jobs2web.com. Both full-time and hourly winter highway maintainers are being hired to help maintain more than 45,000 lane miles statewide during the winter months. The temporary positions are required to promptly respond to emerging weather situations for snow and ice removal and emergency conditions at any time, including nights, weekends and holidays. The starting salary for full time is $6,044 per month. Hourlies are paid $27.79 an hour.

Staff will be available to answer questions and assist in the application process at the upcoming open house:

Tuesday, Dec. 2
​4-7 p.m.
​IDOT Field Office
​11 Quest Drive, Bloomington

For questions, please contact ​
​Gary Sims, IDOT D5 Operations Engineer at 217-251-4859.
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Applicants must have a Class A or B commercial driver’s license with appropriate endorsements to include X or N and no airbrake restrictions and have an email address. A pre-employment physical and vision test as well as drug and alcohol screening and a criminal background check are required.

Hires will be selected based on availability, experience, qualifications and location preference. For additional information, including positions available and the application process in specific districts, details on pay and potential for benefits, please click here.

Over the next six years, IDOT is planning to improve more than 3,200 miles of highway and nearly 9 million square feet of bridge deck as part of Rebuild Illinois, which is investing $33.2 billion into all modes of transportation. Accomplishments through Year Five of Rebuild Illinois include approximately $16 billion of improvements statewide on 6,541 miles of highway, 686 bridges and 986 additional safety improvements.

For more information on IDOT projects, click here. For IDOT District 5 updates, follow us on Twitter at @IDOTDistrict5 or view area construction details on IDOT’s traveler information map on GettingAroundIllinois.com.

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