Overview
Maintenance & Operations Director; PCN Statewide Jobs in Juneau, USA at Alaska Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Position: Maintenance & Operations Director (PCN 250286) Statewide
Lead Operations Where the Road Ends and the Weather Begins
Alaska is not a typical transportation environment and this is not a typical operations role.
From Arctic winter storms and coastal erosion to remote rural airports and mountain passes, Alaska’s transportation system operates in one of the most demanding environments in the world. The Maintenance & Operations Director is the executive leader responsible for keeping that system moving, safely, reliably, and efficiently, across a vast and diverse landscape.
If you are driven by purpose, complexity, and impact, this is a rare opportunity to lead statewide operations at scale.
What you will be doing
As the Maintenance & Operations Director, you will serve as the statewide leader responsible for Alaska’s transportation maintenance system, overseeing highways, rural airports, and critical infrastructure across one of the most challenging operating environments in the country.
This role sets the strategic direction, engineering standards, and operational priorities that guide maintenance delivery statewide. You will ensure alignment between maintenance, engineering, and capital programs while supporting regional teams who execute day-to-day operations.
You will lead with a balance of technical expertise and operational leadership, ensuring system reliability, emergency readiness, fiscal responsibility, and long‑term asset performance.
- Provide statewide leadership for maintenance and operations, setting priorities, ensuring consistent standards, and supporting regional execution.
- Oversee budgets, workforce strategy, and resource allocation to ensure effective stewardship and operational efficiency.
- Lead maintenance engineering, technical standards, environmental compliance, and integration with asset management and capital planning.
- Ensure statewide operational readiness and coordinated emergency response to natural disasters and system disruptions.
- Lead and develop a distributed workforce while advancing modernization through data, performance management, and continuous improvement.
- Represent maintenance and operations in executive, legislative, and interagency settings.
Our organization, mission, and culture
The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is implementing an organizational evolution designed to strengthen service delivery and modernize how transportation infrastructure is managed across the department. The department is moving toward a structure where functional leaders guide strategy, standards, and coordination, while regional districts continue to deliver services locally.
Within this model, the Maintenance & Operations Director provides department‑wide leadership for transportation system performance, ensuring operational readiness, consistent standards, asset stewardship, and strong coordination with capital project delivery. This position plays a central role in ensuring that maintenance needs, asset management priorities, and capital investments are aligned across the full lifecycle of Alaska’s transportation infrastructure. The Director will also lead the development of a maintenance engineering function that provides technical leadership, engineering support, and operational guidance to districts across Alaska.
This is a rare opportunity to shape how one of North America’s most geographically complex transportation systems is maintained, operated, and sustained for the future.
The benefits of joining our team
Working for Alaska DOT&PF means leading transportation operations at a scale and impact few agencies offer. Our teams maintain infrastructure that connects communities, supports economic development, and ensures access to essential services across one of the most geographically vast states in the nation.
• Executive leadership responsibility with meaningful public impact
• The opportunity to modernize and strengthen transportation operations
• Engagement with complex operational and environmental challenges
• Collaboration with experienced professionals committed to serving Alaskans
Few places offer the opportunity to lead transportation operations across terrain ranging from Arctic tundra to coastal…
Title: Maintenance & Operations Director; PCN Statewide
Company: Alaska Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Location: Juneau, USA
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