Transportation Laborer

Transportation Laborer

Salary

$24.03 - $29.07 Hourly

Location

Lincoln, NE

Job Type

Full time/probationary or status

Job Number

202600354

Department

Transportation & Utilities Department

Division

Transportation Operations & Maintenance

Opening Date

06/26/2026

Closing Date

7/12/2026 11:59 PM Central

• Description
• Benefits
• Questions

Job Posting Information

Are you ready to make a real impact in your community? Lincoln Transportation and Utilities is hiring a Transportation Laborer to help maintain and improve our city's streets and drainage systems. You'll get hands-on experience operating tools and light equipment, performing maintenance work, and keeping our city running smoothly. If you enjoy working outdoors, tackling challenges, and seeing the results of your hard work every day, this is the job for you!

This Safety Sensitive position is subject to Mandatory Drug Testing Policies as a condition of employment.

Location:

Southeast District; 3180 South St - Concrete Crew

Hours:

Regular Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Subject to OT during emergencies.

Summer Schedule (Memorial Day to Labor Day): Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (may vary based on seasonal needs)

Qualifications: Graduation from high school or equivalent and any combination of training and experience that provides the desirable knowledge, abilities and skills.

Necessary Special Requirements:

• Possession of a valid drivers license when operating a vehicle is necessary to the satisfactory performance of assigned duties.

• CDL with endorsements, if applicable, must be obtained within 90 days of appointment.

• Training, including Entry Level Driver Training, is available at no cost for those who do not currently hold a CDL.

• If you currently have a CDL, prior to being hired for this position you will be required to register with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse at: https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register

Why Work with Us?

We commit ourselves to offering additional training opportunities and a variety of paths for professional job growth. Our teammates enjoy benefits that include, but are not limited to, a retirement match, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and health, dental, and vision plans. Join the largest department at the City of Lincoln today. We are excited to enhance our communitys quality of life together.

The Lincoln Transportation and Utilities (LTU) team provides transit, transportation and utilities services year-round to the citizens of Lincoln. Nearly 600 team members make up LTU. We fuel the importance of building relationships within our divisions and department and with our community partners. We value our team's forward-thinking attitude and pride ourselves on good stewardship of our environment. We celebrate our individual strengths that in turn take our teams to new levels of accomplishment. We commit ourselves to offering additional training opportunities and a variety of paths for professional job growth. Our teammates enjoy benefits that include, but are not limited to, a retirement match, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and health, dental, and vision plans. Join the largest department at the City of Lincoln today. We are excited to enhance our community's quality of life together.

We value each City of Lincoln employee and one way we demonstrate this is by providing an attractive and competitive total compensation package that adds value to our employees professional and personal lives. The following benefits are available for this position:

• Pay increases are available upon completion of the 6-month new employee probationary period, and annually thereafter based on performance.
• We encourage a healthy work-life balance by offering 10 days of vacation leave, over 12 days of sick leave, 11 paid holidays, and 2 personal convenience days annually that you begin accruing upon hire.
• All medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family begin the first of the month following hire, no need to wait!
• 30 days of Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programs offering work/life services, wellness coaching, short-term counseling, legal assistance, and financial coaching.
• 5 days of Funeral and Bereavement Leave
• $71,000 of Life Insurance
• $1,213 of Tuition Reimbursement
• 401(a) Retirement Plan. If you make a 7% contribution, the City will contribute 9%
• Employer provided Post Employment Health Plan for eligible medical expenses for after you leave City employment.
• Optional benefits include:
• Medical and/or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Allstate Voluntary Plans
• Supplemental Term Life
• Deferred Compensation Plans

01

APPLICATION COMPLETION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT To successfully complete your application, please make sure you read each statement below and check ALL boxes prior to submission.

• 1. This application is hand scored.
• 2. ALL questions must be fully answered to receive full credit.
• 3. "See Resume", or answers such as "See ___" are not acceptable responses and may not receive full credit.
• 4. Copied/Pasted answers may not receive full credit.
• 5. ALL employers and education referred to in answers must be listed in the Work History and Education sections of the application for verification and to receive full credit.
• 6. I understand I am responsible for the accuracy and completeness of my application.
• 7. I Acknowledge that I have read and understand each of the above statements.

02

Are you a current City of Lincoln employee?

• Yes
• No

03

If yes, please list your date of hire, your department, and your title. If no, please enter N/A.

04

I understand, as a condition of my employment for the position for which I am applying with the City of Lincoln/Lancaster County, that I must at all times be legally licensed to operate a motor vehicle. I understand state law requires operators possessing a drivers license from another state must obtain a valid Nebraska drivers license within 30 days of change of residence. Further, I understand that I must notify my immediate supervisor the next working day following a motor vehicle conviction which results in loss, revoked, impounded or suspension of my drivers license. Further, I understand that this document is an official City/County record, and that falsification of this document, or failure to properly notify the City/County of driving convictions or loss of driving privileges will result in discipline, up to and including termination. This applies any time driving privileges are revoked, suspended or limited in any way by any court or the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles or any other Administrative agency of the state of Nebraska or any other state jurisdiction. Do you have a valid drivers license?

• Yes
• No

05

Please list for verification purposes the state that issued the license and your drivers license number.

06

As a condition of employment for this position, you must at all times be legally licensed to operate a COMMERCIAL motor vehicle. Do you have a valid commercial drivers license (CDL)?

• Yes
• No

07

If yes, please list for verification purposes state of issuance, your license number, and any class endorsements. If no, enter "N/A"

08

I understand that if I do not currently have a valid CDL, I will be required to obtain a valid Commercial Drivers License with endorsements, if applicable, within 90 days of appointment or I will be terminated. Further, I understand that if my driving privileges and/or license is at any time suspended, revoked, impounded, or in any other way removed by the State of Nebraska, that I must, as a condition of future employment with the City/County, report that fact IMMEDIATELY to my supervisor. Forms are available in each department. Further, I understand that this document is an official City/County record, and that falsification of this document, or failure to report loss of driving privileges and/or license in the future is grounds for my being disciplined, if hired, or removed from the list of certified eligibles.

• Acknowledge

09

I understand this position involves lifting and operating equipment weighing up to 90 pounds.

• Acknowledge

10

Indicate which of the following best describes your general LABORING work experience (check one):

• No experience
• Less than 12 months experience
• More than 12 months experience
• More than 1 years experience with the same employer
• More than 2 years experience with the same employer

11

If yes, please list employers where you acquired this experience AND describe your work duties. If no experience, enter "N/A"

12

Indicate if you have experience operating a variety of equipment (i.e. tractors, dump trucks, jack hammers, weed eaters, tamps, concrete saws).

• Work experience
• Personal experience
• No experience

13

If claiming work or personal experience, please list the equipment with which you are competent operating. If no experience, enter "N/A"

14

If claiming work experience, please list the employers where you acquired this experience. If no experience, enter "N/A"

15

Do you have experience performing general laboring work in the maintenance of street and highway right-of-ways?

• Yes, less than 6 months experience
• Yes, more than 6 months experience
• No experience

16

If yes, please list employers where you acquired this experience AND describe your work duties. If no experience, enter "N/A"

17

Have you failed or refused a drug or alcohol test within the previous three years?

• Yes
• No

18

In accordance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Department of Transportation Regulations, each individual conditionally hired for a safety sensitive position is subject to mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Any applicant who refuses or fails to execute the City/Countys general consent and release form to be drug and alcohol tested, who refuses or fails to execute the City/Countys authorization to obtain past drug and alcohol test results forms, who refuses or fails to submit to a pre-employment drug test as directed, or whose result is positive will not be considered eligible to work for the City/County. Existing workers who test positive will not be considered qualified for the position for which they are applying and will also be subject to the City/County discipline, up to and including discharge. All pre-employment job applicants covered by this policy who test positive will not be hired. Any applicant has the right to have their original split sample retested (by a DHHS certified laboratory, the original laboratory will follow approved transfer procedures) at their expense, if requested in writing to the City/County Human Resources Director within 72 hours of the final result provided by the Medical Review Officer. If upon retest the results are found to be negative, the City/County will reimburse the costs involved with the retest. (If the second test is found to be positive, the applicant will not be hired, and the cost of the retest will not be reimbursed.) Current employees transferring, promoting or demoting into a position requiring drug testing who test positive have the right to have their sample retested (by a DHHS certified laboratory, the original laboratory will follow approved transfer procedures) at their expense, if requested in writing to the City/County Human Resources Director within 72 hours of the final result provided by the MRO. If upon retest the results are found to be negative, City/County will reimburse the costs involved with the retest. If the results of the retest, are positive, the cost will not be reimbursed. I understand, if hired to a safety sensitive position, I am subject to Random, Post Accident, Reasonable/Suspicion, Return to Duty and Follow-up drug and alcohol testing. Failure to comply with federal mandates and City/County Policy could result in discipline up to and including termination.

• Acknowledge

19

I understand if I currently have a CDL I must register with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Drug and Alcohol Clearing house at: https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register prior to being hired.

• Acknowledge

20

Are you currently registered in the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse?

• Yes
• No (If no, you must register.)

21

I understand that before I can be hired I must give consent for my prospective employer to conduct a query of the FMCSA Commercial Drivers License Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse to determine whether a drug or alcohol violation has been reported.

• I consent.

Required Question

Employer City of Lincoln/Lancaster County

Address 555 South 10th Street, Room 302

Lincoln, Nebraska, 68508

Phone (402) 441-7597

Website http://agency.governmentjobs.com/lincolnne/default.cfm