Texas Department of Transportation Employer Reviews

Helped out in the electrical shop doing repairs on ice makers and small window a/c units. Worked at various locations in the district maintaining fuel pumps, Txdot car washes, outdoor lighting and keeping trucks supplied with needed parts.

A typical day as a Civil Engineer/Project Manager was interesting because you put out many fires daily and discover more fires along the way.

Headquartered in Austin, TxDOT is responsible for the engineering, signage, safety, maintenance, and promotion of TX public roadways

Environment provides a great place to learn and advance in your career area.

A typical day at work was a day that I resolved a conflict in the field at excitement of my supervisors.

Hardwork pays off and there has always been a room for improvement and excellence.

The management of TxDOT is impressive in my judgement, and as a result has produced good products. Texas road net-work is one of the best in the nation. This is – more... due to good management. The management offers opportunity for growth.

Among the workers, there is the spirit of looking out for others. There is a great co-operation, especially to get the job done. There is respect for one another. Discremination and intimidation are not tolerated. There environment is safe to accomodate all. Harassement of any type is discouraged and not tolerated.

Hardest part of the job is the high standards placed on the employees. Restriction to certain behaviors of employees outside job place and time.

The most enjoyable part of the joy is deligation of duty, which creates room to excell. Acceptance of employees' effort as reason for the huge success. – less

A typical day at work was a day that I resolved a conflict in the field at excitement of my supervisors.

Hardwork pays off and there has always been a room for improvement and excellence.

The management of TxDOT is impressive in my judgement, and as a result has produced good products. Texas road net-work is one of the best in the nation. This is – more... due to good management. The management offers opportunity for growth.

Among the workers, there is the spirit of looking out for others. There is a great co-operation, especially to get the job done. There is respect for one another. Discremination and intimidation are not tolerated. There environment is safe to accomodate all. Harassement of any type is discouraged and not tolerated.

Hardest part of the job is the high standards placed on the employees. Restriction to certain behaviors of employees outside job place and time.

The most enjoyable part of the joy is deligation of duty, which creates room to excell. Acceptance of employees' effort as reason for the huge success. – less

Supported users internally or remotely over 100 mile radius, Rebuild built workstations such as Windows 95/98/XP, NT 3/4, Mainframe environments. “ Rosa1, Roscoe, Netview, Roscp-TSO, CICS”, Layout network and phone cabling infrastructures form hubs location and build to building, Tutored area offices on company software, Maintenance and upgrades on – more... computers & printers and telephones as required. , replaced servers, hubs, and switches as needed, Helped users using Unicenter Remote
Control software, Scheduled installation of requested programs using SDO product, Troubleshoot system failures and called in equipment warranty issues, Setup protocols for testing. Ad-havoc and support of MS Office 2003 suit, Maintained Nortel & Meridian PBX systems,Helped maintain database of all electronic equipments, backups and reset passwords. – less

typical day at work is to check for problem areas on traffic map then fix them as soon as possible.
Installing traffic reading equipment on roadway to recieve data that will produce a travel map for the public to check what is the best way to travel across the city.

 Supervised retail employees.
 Managed miscellaneous paperwork.
 Ordered weekly inventory shipment
 Balanced cash register daily
 Exceeded customer service standards

1. Over see construction projects. 2. New ways of construction 3. A lot of TxDot management was done by the the good old boy way. 4. Coworkers are great. 5. Day to Day changes in paper work and the way they wanted it done now, 6. Seeing the finished product.

Review environmental procedures and documents.
I leaned a lot about ecosystems, policy, and regulations.
Management was positive and supportive.
I am still friends with my co-workers.
The most enjoyable part of the job was the environmental work and my co-workers.

Maintained all county and state highways for debree, and pot holes, and whatched for bad weather for Donley county.

A typical day at work was ever changing, sometimes very fast paced and hectic, other days would be laid back and steady. The training was great and opportunities to learn a number of skills, but this would not position you for promotion unless management was to pre-approve.

benefits are good pay is less then par for the job duties good sick days and holidays.

Wonderful place to work. Pay is not that great and advancement is difficult.

Different everyday. wonderful co workers. Training is available for everything which helps to promote upgrades.

• 40 hours per week
• Maintenance of state highways and rights-of-way; erect and repair guard rails, highway markers and signs.
• Performed numerous heavy equipment operations including: motor grader, large gradall, heavy bulldozer, crane, herbicide truck, heavy asphalt paving machine, self-propelled asphalt distributor and profiling/milling machine.
• – more... Assisted in the sanding and cleaning of bridges/roads and posted warning signs to help the public and performing other work as directed during emergency situations such as flood, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, accidents, and hazardous material spills.
• Assisted with traffic control and providing support to local law enforcement officials at accident sites.
• Construction of roads, achieve plans for highway accidents, and inspection of state contractors
• Accomplishments include three promotions and 3rd place in the 2007 TxDOT Roadeo Robertson County Competition
• Obtained a Commercial (CDL) Class A License with the following endorsements: Hazardous Materials Endorsement (HME), Double/Triple Trailers, Tank vehicle. – less

My first full time job. I was able to work with knowledgable co-workers that challenged me as well as guided me throughout my time with the company.

Very great industry to work for. I learn way more than I could have expected

Txdot is a good career, there are excellent fields in the job force to select. It has a great benefits, I learned all kinds of duties from clerk, to road data collection, work in various weather conditions, learn to deal with people both internal and external. Great place I would go back, but i was looking at retirement at the time.