Transportation Engineer III - Advance Project Development

Overview

Transportation Engineer III - Advance Project Development - (2600279) with TxDOT El Paso District. In Advance Project Development Office, you will play a vital role in shaping safe, efficient, and innovative projects that impact communities across the State. Transportation Engineers contribute to planning, design, and project development in a collaborative environment, with opportunities to travel, engage with local and federal partners, and apply advanced engineering practices to real-world challenges.

This position offers professional growth in transportation engineering while gaining valuable experience in utility coordination for complex transportation projects, along with opportunities to work on projects that directly improve mobility, safety, and quality of life across Texas.

• Performs transportation engineering work in 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. Interfaces with governmental officials and private entities.
• Evaluates and makes recommendations for developing, monitoring, and updating integrated project plans and schedules.
• Performs advanced and complex engineering design work such as development of layouts, sketches, plans, specifications, estimates and contracts.
• Performs data collection, evaluations, analyses, studies, inspections, forecasts, assessments, and/or plan development.
• Recommends practices and procedures for Critical Path Method scheduling, budgeting, resourcing and baseline management.
• Coordinates on design schematics, assists with capacity and level of service studies and reviews in-house and consultant ITS plans and projects.
• Coordinates phases of preliminary design and revisions in PS&E with districts, divisions, Administration, FHWA, contractors, fabricators, Corps of Engineers and local entities.
• Interprets the Utility Accommodation Policy.
• Monitors consultants' progress and work quality; checks invoices and associated documents; prepares supplemental agreements.
• Performs and/or coordinates the review and processing of PS&E submission, special specifications or special provisions.
• Reviews contracts, specifications, plans, and utility billing documents associated with right of way coordination.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science; bachelor’s or higher degree accepted by TX PELS. Related graduate level education may be substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis.

Experience:

6 years engineering, transportation engineering, or related engineering experience. Related graduate level education may be substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis.

Licenses and

Certifications:

• Valid U.S. driver’s license at the time of application; this position requires driving a state vehicle.
• Licensed Professional Engineer.

* Professional engineers licensed in another state must meet Texas license requirements within six months of hire and sign an agreement as a condition of employment.

• Hydrologic, hydraulic and geotechnical design activities and principles.
• Applicable plans, specifications and estimates preparation, review, processing and compliance requirements.
• Engineering workstations and applications to support planning and design activities.
• Utility industry knowledge, laws, rules and regulations.
• Applying engineering principles, practices, and methods in job responsibilities.
• Effective group facilitation and communication; ability to define objectives and maintain focus.
• Public relations for maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external groups.
• Basic design and drafting.
• Project management for multiple projects within deadlines.

• Logical reasoning, decision making aligned with business objectives and goals.

• Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions.
• Required to wear protective gear (respirator, hard hat, etc.).
• Physical demands include lifting up to 10 lbs, walking, standing,…