Aeronautics Central Region Engineer

COMTO; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Aeronautics, seeks a Regional Engineer to lead planning, programming, and administering state and federal grant programs for roughly 45 public airports to ensure a safe and viable air transportation system.

You will work with two other regional teams, provide programmatic oversight and policy guidance on environmental reviews, coordination, and compliance, and travel within Minnesota about 20% of the time, sometimes by small aircraft to meet

Qualifications

• PE licensure as minimum requirement.
• Experience applying engineering principles and methods.
• Experience managing transportation projects.
• Experience in grant administration and compliance with funding policies.

Responsibilities

• Determine eligibility of airport projects for federal or state funding and ensure enviro requirements are met.
• Review reimbursement requests and project documents for compliance with standards.
• Provide technical advice to cities, counties, and airport authorities to support airport development.
• Meet with airport owners and consultants to maintain CIP for the State Airport System.
• Review and provide comments on Airport Master Plans and ALPs to ensure timelines and standards.
• Provide content expertise for educational outreach at events such as workshops and conferences.

Skills

Professional engineer licensure (PE)

Engineering principles application

Transportation project management

Contract administration

Education

Professional Engineer licensure (PE)

Job description

As a Regional Engineer in MnDOT’s Office of Aeronautics, you will provide direction and leadership in planning, programming, and administering state and federal grant-in-aid programs for approximately 45 public airports to ensure a safe and viable air transportation system is developed, maintained, and promoted. You will work closely with two other regional teams and provide programmatic oversight and policy guidance for statewide initiatives such as environmental reviews, coordination, and compliance. This position will occasionally travel in a small aircraft to meet with customer groups. This position requires travel within Minnesota approximately 20% of the time.

Some responsibilities include:

• Determining eligibility of airport projects for federal or state funding and ensuring project justifications are complete and environmental requirements are met.
• Reviewing reimbursement requests and project documents for airport projects for compliance with applicable standards and requirements.
• Providing technical advice to cities, counties, and airport authorities to support comprehensive airport development.
• Meeting with airport owners and consultants in the assigned region to collect and maintain a Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for the State Airport System.
• Reviewing and providing comments on Airport Master Plans (MP), associated Airport Layout Plans (ALP), construction safety plans, construction project designs, and other engineering documents to ensure final plans meet expectations, timelines, and standards.
• Providing content expertise, materials, and guest speaker services for educational outreach at events such as AirTAP workshops, the Annual Airports Conference, EAA AirVenture, FAA workshops, and others.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Licensure as a professional engineer with the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID).
• Experience in applying engineering principles, practices, techniques and methods.
• Experience managing transportation projects.
• Experience in contract administration, including managing grant agreements and ensuring compliance with funding policies and procedures.