Engineer, Environmental Engineer

At DOTD, our mission is to empower communities and improve lives by delivering responsive, inclusive, and forward-thinking public services. We are proud to serve the people of Louisiana with integrity, innovation, and a deep commitment to equity.

ln a supervisory capacity under the direction of the Materials Research Administrator, this position independently plans, develops, coordinates and directs a diverse, extensive and critically important in-house and contract research program in response to DOTD overall objectives and in response to problems of extraordinary difficulty by providing expert professional engineering direction to the Asphalt Research Unit of the Louisiana Transportation Research Center's Research and Development Section.

This program encompasses a full spectrum of transportation technology and operations incorporating widely diverse infrastructure areas ranging from bituminous materials, flexible pavement properties, asphalt mix design, flexible pavement systems, flexible pavement forensic analysis, and sustainable pavement materials. The incumbent makes independent decisions and recommendations that impact extensive department engineering activities

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice professional engineering plus one of the following:

• Two years of licensed engineering experience; or
• Six years of professional engineering experience.

• A master's degree in engineering will substitute for one year of professional engineering experience.
• A doctorate degree in engineering will substitute for two years of professional engineering experience.
• Advanced degrees will substitute for a maximum of two years of professional engineering experience.
• There is no substitution for licensed engineering experience.

• Engineering experience gained while licensed as a professional engineer will be accepted as licensed engineering experience.
• Engineering experience gained after earning an ABET-accredited degree and prior to earning a professional engineer's license (e.g., as an engineer intern applicant, engineer intern, or equivalent) will be accepted as professional level engineering experience.
• Applications will be accepted from persons licensed to practice professional engineering in states other than Louisiana. If one of those applicants is selected for the position, he/she will be required to obtain a Louisiana license prior to appointment. The hiring agency will verify that all licensing requirements are met.
• Louisiana Professional Engineer licenses are issued by the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board. Licensing requirements may be viewed at

• Supervise,coordinate,andreviewtheworkofengineers,professional staff,andtechnicianswithinthe
  
  Asphalt Research Unit .
• Overseeunitoperations,including staffing,work assignments,schedules,training,resource allocation,andbudgetdevelopment.
• Directthedevelopmentandimplementationofin-houseresearchprogramsfocusedonasphaltmaterials,pavement performance,andtransportationengineering.
• Developresearchproposals,identify transportation-related problems,conduct studies,andcommunicatefindingsthroughtechnicalreports,publications,and presentations.
• Managecontractresearchprojects,includingrequestsforproposals,technical reviews,contract compliance,andevaluationofresearchresults.
• ProvideadvancedengineeringguidanceandtechnicalassistancetoDOTDofficials,external partners,andotherstakeholdersoncomplexorspecializedtransportationissues.
• Developengineeringspecifications,special provisions,policies,procedures,andtechnicalmemorandatoimprovedepartmentoperationsandpavementperformance.
• Leadtechnologytransferandimplementationinitiatives,inclu…