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$30,000 a month in Fresno County? CA is hiring for these high-paying state jobs

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The state of California is hiring in Fresno County for full-time positions including engineers, health care professionals and maintenance workers.

State agencies seeking employees include the California Department of State Hospitals and California Department of Transportation.

State jobs are known for offering competitive benefits and enrollment in the nation’s largest public pension plan.

Many of the following jobs have specific requirements, which are linked.

These were some of the latest state jobs available in Fresno County on the Cal Careers website as of Wednesday, May 7:

Associate governmental program analyst | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: Covered California
  • Salary: $5,855. to $7,327 per month

The associate governmental program analyst performs the analytical studies and research for the priority support unit within Covered California service centers.

Duties include collecting data, tracking analytics, identifying trends and presenting recommendations to improve the customer experience across all call center transaction channels.

The application period closes on Sunday, May 11.

Building maintenance worker | Limited term, full-time

  • Department: State Hospitals
  • Salary: $4,167 to $4,995 per month

The building maintenance worker performs a variety of semi-skilled manual tasks in the alteration, maintenance and repair of buildings, building facilities, appurtenances, equipment and grounds.

The building maintenance worker is also responsible for hospital maintenance projects and will receive leadership under various shop supervisors and site supervisors.

Duties may include instructing, leading or supervising casual workers.

The application period closes on Wednesday, May 14.

Clinical social worker | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: Correctional Health Care Services
  • Salary: $8,425 to $10,261 per month

Under the general direction of the senior correctional facility psychologist or supervising psychiatric social worker, the clinical social worker conducts assessments and summarizes case information to use in diagnosis, treatment and dispositional release.

The clinical social worker also diagnoses, develops, monitors, and modifies treatment plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team.

Other duties include providing assessments, group therapy and collateral conferences, and documenting and evaluating patients’ progress in treatment.

The application period closes on Monday, May 19.

Dentist | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: Correctional Health Care Services
  • Salary: $19,535 to $30,945 per month

The dentist is responsible for the delivery of dental care, including preventive care, to patients at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga.

The dentist participates in performance management activities to continuously improve the dental program and may delegate appropriate levels of responsibility to the supervising dental assistant.

The application period closes on Tuesday, May 20.

Senior transportation engineer | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: Transportation
  • Salary: $11,104 to $13,898 per month

The senior transportation engineer specialist serves as a project manager responsible for managing and facilitating the development and engineering administration of the project, from inception through construction completion and close-out.

The engineer ensures successful delivery of all assigned projects in accordance with the approved scope, on schedule and within the programmed capital and support budgets.

Other duties include providing reports and supporting the deputy district director for projects that are in the State Transportation Improvement Program, State Highway Operational and Protection Program as well as storm damage, seismic and other capital outlay-funded projects

The application period closes on Thursday, May 15.

Senior water resource control engineer | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: State Water Resources Control Board
  • Salary: $11,104 to $13,898 per month

Under the general direction of a supervisor, the senior water resource control engineer supervises the Central Valley Water Board’s Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program unit in the region’s Fresno office.

The Irrigated Land Regulatory Program unit consists of a multi-discipline technical team water resource control engineers, engineering geologists and environmental scientists.

The application period closes on Monday, May 12.

Landscape associate| Permanent, full-time

  • Department: Transportation
  • Salary: $6,299 to $11,798 per month

Under the direction of a senior landscape architect, the landscape associate provides a full range of professional landscape architectural duties such as planning, design and contract document preparation.

The lCaltrans employee is responsible for determining that all plans, specifications and estimates are complete, in conformance with standards and satisfactory for submittal to headquarters for advertisement and contract award.

Other duties include participating in office engineer reviews.

The application period closes on Friday, May 30.

Physician and surgeon | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: State Hospitals
  • Salary: $18,938 to $26,631 per month

Under medical supervision, the physician and surgeon provides adequate, appropriate and timely preventative, routine, specialized and emergency medical care to patients residing at the Department of State Hospitals facility in Coalinga, consistent with generally accepted professional standards of care.

The physician and surgeon is responsible for making professional decisions regarding general medical work and surgery, as well as appropriate referrals for services.

Duties include maintaining professional communication with physicians, consultants, nurses and other personnel.

The application is open until filled.

Crime analyst I | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: Justice
  • Salary: $3,906 to $6,114 per month

The crime analyst prepares case work-ups by re-verifying or updating subjects’ identification information and firearms prohibition status and utilizing various existing department of justice databases.

Other duties include conducting criminal history analyses or inquiries into various database systems, and requesting reviewing, analyzing and evaluating data and/or files. The crime analyst also contacts other entities to verify prohibition data,

The application period closes on Monday, May, 19.

Radiologic technologist | Permanent, full-time

  • Department: State Hospitals
  • Salary: $4,781 to $7,026 per month

The radiologic technologist instructs and prepares patients for radiologic examinations, determining the most suitable anatomical posture and positions and shielding patients appropriately.

Other duties including positioning and operating stationary or portable radiologic machines and taking x-rays for a variety of all body structures.

The radiologic technologist processes, develops and makes copies and fixes x-ray films, in addition to preparing solutions for processing films, assisting cases and identify photographs and maintaining equipment and quarters.

The position is open until filled.

Fernanda Galan
The Fresno Bee
Fernanda Galan covers Central Valley and California news as The Fresno Bee’s service journalism reporter. Before joining The Bee in 2024, she reported in Milwaukee, Arizona and Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Arizona State’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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