Zone Design Engineer; TE Specialist

Are you interested in ensuring safe, effective traffic control in construction zones? Do you have a passion for leading and setting standards and polices on complex projects? If yes, this could be a great opportunity for you. The Iowa DOT is a national leader in using data collection and analysis to improve driver and worker safety in work zones, and we want you to come be a part of our team!

We are looking for a Work Zone Design Engineer (TE Specialist) to join the Iowa Department of Transportation Design Bureau. You will be a key player in overseeing the design and application of traffic control measures for use during the construction of improvement projects on the primary and interstate systems in Iowa. Your leadership will help us ensure motorist and worker safety, traffic flow, and project success.

You will partner with multiple stakeholders to develop effective construction staging and traffic control strategies, conduct field reviews to evaluate performance in real-world conditions, and contribute your expertise to task forces and committees. This is a chance to take on meaningful responsibility, influence statewide practices, and grow within a highly valued engineering specialty.

Location: Ames, Iowa – Design Bureau

Shift Requirements
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Days, Monday through Friday. Flexible work hours available. Some travel will be required.

Our most successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of the highway development process, highway design, construction zone traffic control design, and assessment, as well as the capability to research evolving practices in construction zone traffic control advances to aid the agency in deploying the most current and effective measures.

In this position, you will contribute to the agency by working on a wide variety of construction zone traffic control designs that support complex highway improvement projects that will require you to:

• Advise engineers and designers on solutions to non-standard and highly complex challenges.
• Advance innovation in safety analysis, investment optimization, technologies, and methods related to construction zone traffic control.
• Work closely and effectively as part of our central highway design team, district design teams, and our consulting engineering partner teams to ensure that they are highly trained, adaptive, and efficient in the delivery of excellent transportation services that support our agency goals.

Additional Requirements:

• Must have, or prior to appointment, must obtain an active Iowa professional engineering license through the Iowa Professional Licensing Bureau
  -Engineering and Land Surveying Examination Board.
• Must possess and maintain a Class C Driver’s License.

At this time, we're not considering applicants who need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information on work authorization needs, please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

The Iowa Department of Transportation is proud to be a partner with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Through this partnership, DOT engineers are granted membership at a largely discounted price, as well as discounts for conferences and continuing education through the ASCE. We are excited to offer this benefit and to have you join this partnership with us! If you're interested in learning more about this benefit, please visit https://www.asce.org/membership.

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