Highway Operations Technician Family
Career series with 3 positions across 3 levels
Highway Operations Technician groups 3 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.
Entry is typically through Highway Operations Technician 1, advancing through the ladder toward Highway Operations Technician 3. Pay across the family spans $42,084 to $72,550, around the 10th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 195 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Transportation.
Highway Operations Technician commonly advances into Training Technician and Records Support Technician.
Positions in This Family
- HIGHWAY OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN 1 (41937) $42,084 - $60,577/year
- HIGHWAY OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN 2 (42050) $45,874 - $66,294/year
- HIGHWAY OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN 3 (42051) $50,059 - $72,550/year
What the Highway Operations Technician family covers
New Jersey classifies Highway Operations Technician as a 3-level series holding 3 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Engineering series in New Jersey are organized by discipline and then by responsibility, so a family usually reads assistant, then senior, then principal, then supervising. Professional Engineer licensure appears at the senior end rather than at entry, which lets the state hire graduates and license them in post. Transportation is the largest employer of these titles by a wide margin, with Environmental Protection, Treasury property management and the county engineering offices behind it. Construction inspection titles sit nearby but belong to the regulatory side.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Highway Operations Technician family stacks up as follows. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Highway Operations Technician 3 — $50,059 to $72,550 (3 years of experience)
- Highway Operations Technician 2 — $45,874 to $66,294 (2 years of experience)
- Highway Operations Technician 1 — $42,084 to $60,577
The distance from the bottom of Highway Operations Technician 1 to the top of Highway Operations Technician 3 is $30,465, an increase of about 72% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.
- Highway Operations Technician 1: Under close supervision of a Crew Supervisor in a highway operations crew within the Department of Transportation (NJDOT), performs unskilled and…
- Highway Operations Technician 2: Under limited supervision of a Crew Supervisor in a highway operations crew within the Department of Transportation (NJDOT), performs unskilled and…
- Highway Operations Technician 3: Under general supervision of a Crew Supervisor in a highway operations crew within the Department of Transportation (NJDOT), performs unskilled and…
Getting in: the stated requirements
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Stated experience runs from 2 years at the lowest rung to 3 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
1 of the 3 titles carry a license or certification requirement. On how the jobs are filled: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
State payroll records show 195 people working under 2 of this family's titles, spread across 1 agency. Transportation alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Transportation — 195 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $58,133 for Highway Operations Technician 2 up to $63,577 for Highway Operations Technician 3. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.
State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.
How the pay is set
Titles in this family are paid on the C-I-O salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by IFPTE. Union contracts and rights are collected here.
Where these jobs exist
These are state titles, hired by New Jersey departments, commissions and boards through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process rather than by an ordinary job posting. How state hiring works, and which agencies employ what.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Highway Operations Technician Trainee ($45,364 to $47,044, state jurisdiction)
- Area Supervisor Highway Operations ($66,592 to $97,354, state jurisdiction)
- Crew Supervisor, Highway Operations ($60,876 to $88,743, state jurisdiction) — in the Crew Supervisor family
- Supervisor of Highway Signs Operations ($69,668 to $101,951, state jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Assistant Crew Foreman Highway Operations ($55,691 to $81,008, state jurisdiction)
- Printing Operations Technician
Common questions about Highway Operations Technician jobs
How many Highway Operations Technician titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Highway Operations Technician family holds 3 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Highway Operations Technician earn in New Jersey?
Published salary data for this family runs from $42,084 at the bottom of Highway Operations Technician 1 to $72,550 at the top of Highway Operations Technician 3. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Highway Operations Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 3 of the 3 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What qualifications does a Highway Operations Technician need?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 2 to 3 years is named where a requirement is stated. 1 of the titles require a license or certification.
Which agencies employ Highway Operations Technician staff?
State payroll records show 195 people in this family across 1 agency, with Transportation the largest at 195. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.