E281 Transportation Engineer II, III or IV

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • Austin, TX • 11h ago

Transportation Engineer II:Performs complex transportation engineering work in one or more functional areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation/traffic operations and/or maintenance. Ensures compliance with applicable federal and state laws, policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. Work requires contact with governmental officials and private entities. Employees at this level perform work independently on assignments; however all unusual issue are referred to the supervisor.Transportation Engineer III:Performs advanced and complex transportation engineering work in one or more functional areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation/traffic operations and/or maintenance. Ensures compliance with applicable federal and state laws, policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. Work requires contact with governmental officials and private entities. Employees at this level establish their own work plan and priorities to meet set objectives. Issues are rarely referred to the supervisor but are handled at the occurrence.Transportation Engineer IV:Performs highly advanced and complex transportation engineering work in one or more functional areas such as planning, project development and design, construction, transportation/traffic operations and/or maintenance. Ensures compliance with applicable federal and state laws, policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. Work requires contact with governmental officials and private entities. Employees at this level are virtually self-supervising and assume direct accountability for the work product.Essential Duties:Transportation Engineer II:Develops design and project development reports, surveys and correspondencePerforms complex planning work such as plan review, calculations and assisting in transportation planning studiesTestifies at condemnation hearings and trialsTrains engineering staffUpdates, reviews, monitors, and/or reviews requests for changes to plans, manuals and/or standard sheetsAnalyzes schedule trends, determines risks and supports management in evaluating options for corrective action for routine projects.Assesses and report actual project progress versus planned progress to determine trends and variance for routine projectsAssists in utilization for available funds to improve and install traffic control devicesAssists Project Managers related to resource assignments, schedules, scope, communication, quality, and/or procurement, while utilizing available resources and maintaining the agencyandrsquo;s project objectivesAssists project managers to establish realistic and achievable schedule baselinesAssists with design, computer operations and plan preparationConducts pre-construction meetings and public hearingsCoordinates and/or monitors assigned project/programs/plansCoordinates on design schematics, assists with capacity and level of service studies and reviews in-house and consultant traffic control/traffic management/intelligent transportation system (ITS) plans and projectsCoordinates phases of preliminary design and revisions in PSE with districts, divisions, Administration, the FHWA, contractors, fabricators, Corps of Engineers and local entitiesCoordinates traffic engineering studies and traffic countsCoordinates with utility companies, attorneys and governmental representatives to accurately depict the highway projectandrsquo;s impact on adjacent propertiesDesigns complex bridge projects and performs specialized designDevelops and/or reviews engineering related documents, correspondence, reports and remediation plansDevelops and/or reviews environmental documents and prepares remediation plansDrives/travels to project/work locations to make on-site engineering reviews, analyses, tests and to provide technical support.Evaluates the performance of new transportation productsInterprets manuals and required guidelines for traffic operationsInterprets the Utility Accommodation PolicyMake presentations and represent TxDOTMonitors consultantsandrsquo; progress and work quality; checks invoices and associated documents; prepares supplemental agreementsPerforms and/or coordinates the review and processing of Plans, Specifications Estimates (PSE) submission, special specifications or special provisionsPerforms data collection, analyses, forecasts and plan developmentProvides design engineering support for districts in project developmentReviews designs and detailed drawing of bridges and related structures prepared by other engineers and techniciansReview traffic engineering studies, warranting of traffic signals and speed zonesReviews, processes and certifies project design plans developed by consulting engineersUses departmentandrsquo;s enterprise Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule and resource management tool to accomplish scheduling and resource management of transportation projectsUtilizes project management principles initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing for transportation projectsCoordinates with other to develop, monitor and update integrated project plans and schedules to ensure projects are executed in the most efficient manner possiblePerforms other job responsibilities as assigned.Transportation Engineer III:All duties shown above, and additional duties included: Performs advanced and complex engineering design work such as development of layouts, sketches, plans, specifications, estimates and contracts.Performs advanced and complex planning work such as plan review, calculations and transportation planning studiesTransportation Engineer IV:All duties shown above, and additional duties included: Monitors contract performance, evaluates contract deliverables, reviews billing documentation, monitors the consultantandrsquo;s compliance with the terms of the contract, and/or prepares and delivers a written evaluation of the consultantandrsquo;s performance.Reviews contracts and related documents for execution.Serves as a project manager overseeing consultants performing advanced and complex engineering work.

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