The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) hosted a Transportation Industry Hiring Event this week in Milton. Launched in 2024, the initiative, Road to Your Future, is designed to recruit workforce talent for Florida’s growing transportation sector.
The hiring event, held Wednesday at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium, was the first to be conducted in the western-most region of the state. And it was very well attended, with over 520 people pre-registering for the event and many more showing up at the door.
“What we have today are open positions, not only with the Florida Department of Transportation, but our industry partners who are looking to hire, and it runs the gamut of positions,” said FDOT spokesman Ian Satter, pointing out that the job openings go beyond the vested roadworkers and dump truck operators that tend to come to mind…