Senior Transportation Engineer

Job Type


Full-time

Description

Under the supervision and direction of the Director of Capital Projects, the Senior Transportation Engineer prepares, manages, and performs complex professional transportation engineering and public works duties in the field and office, including work involving structures, drainage, railway facilities, roadways, highways, bikeways, walkways, and intersections. The position is responsible for project management and delivery of capital improvements, construction administration, complex transportation engineering analyses and studies, and other related work as required.

EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Include but are not limited to the following):

• Serves as project manager for the most complex regional priority projects that the RTC is responsible for delivering under Measure D, State Transportation Improvement Program, and other funding sources, in coordination with partner agencies to ensure timely and cost-effective project delivery and compliance with all regulatory and funding requirements.
• Leads consultant selection and contract management efforts on assigned projects including: requests for proposals, advertisements for bids, instructions to bidders, detailed specifications or scopes of work, contract budgets, invoice review and task management;
• Mentors and provides technical engineering assistance to professional staff; serves in a supervisory role on an as-needed basis;
• Contributes policy recommendations relating to strategic agency priorities;
• Prepares or oversees consultant preparation of preliminary studies, reports, designs, calculations, cost estimates, maps, and plans;
• Performs professional transportation engineering work in the field and office on a variety of complex projects; may act as resident engineer on construction projects.

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

An appropriate combination of education and experience that has provided the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. A typical way of obtaining the required qualifications is:

Education : Civil Engineering and/or Transportation Engineering

License : Possession of a valid California class C driver license,

Registration: Registration as a Civil Engineer in the State of California

AND

Experience: At least seven years of progressively responsible experience at a level equivalent to Transportation Engineer with the RTC.

Salary Description


$156,831-$210,163/year