Lead Project Delivery Engineer; TTE

About WSDOT

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is a multimodal agency with a global reputation for excellence. Our dedicated workforce plans, designs, builds, and operates an integrated transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods throughout the state. In addition to maintaining over 20,000 lane miles of state highway and 4,100 bridges, WSDOT leads an award-winning Active Transportation Plan, manages the world's longest floating bridge, and operates the largest ferry system in the nation!

WSDOT is seeking a skilled technical engineer to provide senior-level oversight, technical leadership, and engineering expertise for overseeing state and federal grant-funded public transportation capital construction and infrastructure projects. This position will support the successful development and delivery of complex, high-risk multimodal transportation investments by ensuring projects are planned, designed, constructed, and administered in compliance with legislative intent, grant program requirements, and applicable state and federal regulations.

Responsibilities include technical oversight of approximately $600 million in public transportation capital investments, including contract and regulatory compliance, risk management, project delivery support, and implementation of technical analysis, policies, and standards.

• Provide senior-level technical oversight of a small team managing capital construction projects led by grantees.
• Apply advanced professional engineering judgment to oversee complex, high-risk grantee-led projects.
• Serve as the Transportation Technical expert and senior technical authority.
• Provide expert guidance in project risk identification and mitigation, lead team activities in financial oversight and administration of state-funded projects and otherwise support capital investments.
• Ensure project compliance with applicable state and federal engineering standards, funding requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Provide strategic technical advisory support to the Program Manager related to project delivery methods, risk management strategies and performance outcomes.
• Coordinate as a technical expert with grantees, internal and external WSDOT partners, and partner agencies.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, right-of-way, ADA, and other applicable requirements, lead construction project closeout and inspection documentation review.
• Manage the review and approval of invoices, contracts, and amendments.
• Investigate and assist in resolving project disputes, including the analysis of financial impacts and complex schedule delays.

To be considered for this opportunity, the following competencies are required:

• Extensive experience in leading or overseeing capital construction projects through planning, environmental review, design, and construction.
• Extensive experience, education, or training in transportation engineering, planning, or related fields.
• Advanced understanding of construction policies, processes, and engineering principles.
• Familiarity with applicable state and federal regulations, such as environmental documentation including NEPA, Uniform Act, BABA, Buy America, and others.
• Extensive knowledge and skills to use advanced engineering judgment in identifying transportation challenges and potential risks before they materialize and developing recommendations for mitigation.

• Ability to lead teams in generating and implementing workable, useful, and appropriate courses of action in response to evolving situations.
• Experience communicating complex policy, project, and technical information effectively using verbal, written, and visual communication skills to a diverse audience, including program/project managers, executives, internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and serve as a key member on various internal and external teams to collaboratively make decisions, and prepare well-developed programs, projects, systems, and reports in alignment with WSDOT and partners’ priorities.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex…