Show State Highway Department One of State's Largest Industries THE UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT of Highways Is one of Utah's largest Operating in each of the 29 counties of the the Department has an annual payroll of approximately AS OF DECEMBER there were permanent or full-time employees in the This compares to in December and during the same period in CAREER of the Department of Highways is better trained and is far more productive than those appointed during the old political stated C. Taylor Director of our construction program has more than quadrupled since the number of employees required for this mammoth job has increased only twice the We attribute this to the better training of the employee and the career aspect of the STATE HIGHWAY EMPLOYEES work in every town and city across the According to G. Dwight personnel manager of the Highway these hundreds of career employees are classified into over and specialized From the time a new employee begins work and continues toward his the Highway Department offers scores of training courses to help perform his job better and provide for promotion In the About 95 per cent of the permanent state highway employees havo been given recognition under the Merit Employees rate of turnover during the past year has been averaged per which is considerably lower than previous NUMEROUS TRAINING COURSES are offered the employee in such categories as first supervisory public property and many The Highway Department also works very closely with many of outside agencies such as the Utah Department of technical training civil and the colleges and Perhaps the State Highway employee that is most noticed Is the maintenance worker who is out blazing a trail after a snow storm or is seen performing striping operations on the miles of state AS PUBLIC SPIRITED Wakefield re- ported that highway employees attended Utah National Guard and other military schools and encampments during During the recent and the numerous highway employees were called into active Salt Lake Tribune |