Transportation Engineering Specialist

DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION Be a part of an innovative and collaborative team driving a safer transportation system for Arizona. Transportation Engineering Specialist ($4,000 Hiring Incentive)

Job Location:

4677 - VISION FIELD OFFICE
1221 N. 21st Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85009

• Salary: $64,802.03 - $74,802.03
• Anticipated Salary: $69,802.03
• Position eligible for a $4,000 hiring incentive
• Grade: 22
• Closing Date:
  June 28, 2026

Under general supervision, this technical specialist performs a variety of journey level engineering duties in highway construction. Reviews accuracy and completeness of project work and information. Recommends approval or disapproval of project work. Directs activities of ADOT and consultant highway construction technicians. Approves and disapproves inspector work and diaries. Writes cost estimates and supplemental agreements.

• Inspects and examines highway construction projects, diaries, computations, materials test results, and other documentation. Ensures that project measurements and payments are in accordance with project plans, special provisions and supplemental agreements. Confers with agency officials, staff members and representatives of other agencies to acquire information needed for immediate determinations and decisions.
• Reviews project for design clarity, accuracy, and constructability; reviews specifications and special provisions; prepares detailed cost estimates, reviews construction schedule, and determines whether all supporting information has been obtained. Complies information for work unit and writes periodic reports on assigned activities.
• Writes detailed reports (Change Orders) based on research, investigation, or inquiry using prescribed format or established forms. Attends work unit staff meeting; gives and receives information; participates in problems solving and decision making. Calculates land areas, earth forms, circular curves, material quantities and other qualitative measurements using geometric and trigonometric computations.

• Principles and practices of civil engineering, as applied to highway construction inspection.
• Computational and adjustment factors to be applied in the review and analysis of engineering data and land description data related to highway construction inspection.
• Federal and State statutes Agency standards, policies and procedures applicable to highway construction inspection.
• Computer programs applicable to highway construction inspection.
• Principles of supervision and project management, and related rules, policies and procedures.

• Analyzing and evaluating a wide variety of engineering data.
• Researching, reading, and interpreting a variety of technical engineering documents such as survey data, highway plans, blueprints, specifications, materials testing data and computer generated data.
• Oral and written communications.
• Change order and technical writing.
  
  Organizing and prioritizing work assignments.

• Use computational and adjustment factors.
• Use mathematical computations.
• Communicate written and orally.
• Safely drive a full-size pickup truck on and off-road.
• Work outdoors for extended time, exposed to heat, cold, dust and noise.
• Maintain professional, productive interpersonal relations with all highway construction partners and stakeholders.

• 5 to 10 years minimal level of work experience is required.
• GED or high school diploma.
• 4 Year College Degree - Bachelor of Science is preferred.

Valid Arizona Driver's License. This position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job, and the following requirements apply:
Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all…