Crash Data Technician w/ Oregon Dept of Transportation (Salem, OR)

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The role: 
Join our Policy, Data & Analysis Division as a Crash Data Technician. In this role, you will examine motor vehicle traffic crash reports, from both citizens and the police. Accurately locate crash sites using maps and other references and analyze the information to populate data element fields for each crash incident in the Crash Data System (CDS). This data is used by ODOT technical and professional staff and external stakeholders to prepare reports, develop safety countermeasures, plan safety construction projects, create legislative policies, track ODOT key performance measures, develop transportation safety plans, other safety materials and more.

We invite members of all diverse communities to join our workforce as we endeavor to best serve Oregonians from every background. ODOT values diversity and inclusion because they are good for Oregon. We believe that by welcoming differences, encouraging new ideas and views, listening to and learning from each other, and providing opportunities for professional enrichment we are better able to serve those around us. We thank you for considering this employment opportunity.

If you are a current State of Oregon employee, you must apply through your employee Workday profile.

A day in the life:

• Access police and citizen traffic crash reports for evaluation .
• Consult with team lead on any technical questions
• Analyze and interpret each driver’s or officer’s narrative to capture the factors and code a crash incident.
• Enter various data points for each crash, such as date and time, roadway elements and jurisdictional codes.
• Use a geo-coding application to assign accurate coordinate values for crashes.
• Successfully meet daily minimum production expectations in the course of producing quality crash data   
• Reconcile your recorded data with other records.
• Add to and revise information for technical references in crash coding.
• Transfer information from older hardcopy references to electronic references.
• Retrieve special crash data statistical reports from the Crash Data System  application.
• Attend monthly required technical training sessions
• Attend monthly unit staff meetings   
• After training is successfully completed, and employee’s work and remote work environment meet agency requirements, may work remotely up to 99% of the time.
• To request a copy of the position description, which includes all duties and working conditions, please email [email protected].

What’s in it for you:

• Work/life balance, 10 paid holidays a year, flexible work schedules, competitive benefits packages and so much more. Click here to learn about working at the Oregon Department of Transportation.
• Live, work and play in Salem, Oregon—and opportunity to work remotely, up to 99% of the time, once training is successfully completed!

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What we need:
Two years of general clerical experience, one year of which included typing, word processing, or other experience generating documents.
OR
An Associate's degree.
OR
Graduation from a private school of business with a certificate AND one year of general clerical experience.

What we’d like to see:
If you have these qualities, let us know! It’s how we will choose whom to move forward!
Note: You do not need to have all of these qualities to be eligible for this position.  

• Experience with technical data research, research concepts and converting written narratives to code elements.
• Experience with strict production expectations and accuracy-oriented work performance.
• Experience with specialized software applications and Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis tools.
• Experience applying an understanding of data standards, importance of data consistency, quality assurance and quality checking tasks
• Experience understanding and reading engineering location references, locating and calculating milepoints, working with hardcopy and online maps, experience with detailed but at times conflicting information for several documented sources.