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Alaska DOT reports ~15% overall vacancy rate in maintenance ranks; calls for CDL and training solutions
Summary
DOT officials told the Senate Transportation Committee that workforce shortages — especially equipment operators and heavy-duty mechanics — are constraining operations and project delivery; the department outlined vacancy rates by region and federal training funds and described pilot off-road CDL and university cohort programs.
At a Jan. 23 Senate Transportation Committee hearing in Juneau, Ryan Anderson, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, and Deputy Commissioner Catherine Keith described workforce vacancies across DOT&PF and the department’s efforts to recruit and train workers.
Anderson said the department employs about 3,445 positions statewide and provided regional vacancy snapshots for maintenance and operations staff: Northern Region about 15% vacancy across 215 full‑time positions (with some camps exceeding 20% and specific sites like Cordova,…
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