Senior Highway Engineer & Project Leader

State of Indiana; Vincennes (IN); On-site; USD 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options (3)

Wellness Rewards Program

Health Savings Account

Pension options

Paid leave benefits

Job summary

The Indiana Department Of Transportation (INDOT) offers a challenging opportunity in the Vincennes District for an experienced engineer. This role focuses on developing policies and plans for complex projects with statewide impact, conducting long-range planning, and evaluating policy changes to improve transportation programs.

Minimum four years of professional engineering experience required; PE license in Indiana preferred.

Qualifications

• Registered Professional Engineers license in Indiana required.
• Must possess a valid Indiana driver’s license.
• Broad knowledge of civil/transportation disciplines. Understanding of department design standards, policies, and practices. Understanding of the NEPA and NHPA processes. Knowledge of CAD, spreadsheets, databases, and scheduling. Knowledge of traffic operations analysis such as capacity and crash analysis. Knowledge of alternatives development, decision-making, and engineering economic analysis.
• Must be able to read and interpret engineering plans and specifications, define problems, collect appropriate data, establish facts, define, and communicate with stakeholders and draw valid engineering solutions. Must be able to handle routine and sensitive contacts with government officials, consulting firms/contractors and the public.
• Ability to identify problems; determine accuracy and relevance of information; use sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives and to make recommendations.
• Ability to plan and develop engineering projects with unique or controversial problems and/or novel engineering related concepts and approaches.
• A degree is not required. However, at least four (4) years of professional experience in engineering, civil engineering, transportation research, or a closely related field. Two (2) years of experience as a group or project leader providing work direction and training to engineering technicians and/or lower-level engineers, or two (2) years experience in conducting engineering-related research applying the outlined knowledge, skills, and abilities in a similar role may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop engineering policies and plans projects concerned with unique or controversial problems which have a significant impact on major organizational programs.
• Provide budgetary information, researches and makes recommendations to assist with long range planning.
• Evaluate engineering policies, recommends revisions, and approves and implements policies.
• Evaluate the impact of changes to engineering policies, procedures and standards having statewide implications, makes recommendations to supervisor, integrates changes in existing programs, and directs research and evaluation efforts.

Skills

PE license

Indiana driver’s license

Civil/transportation knowledge

Data interpretation

Problem solving

Tools

CAD

Spreadsheets

Databases

Scheduling software

Job description

The Indiana Department Of Transportation (INDOT) offers a challenging opportunity in the Vincennes District for an experienced engineer. This role focuses on developing policies and plans for complex projects with statewide impact, conducting long-range planning, and evaluating policy changes to improve transportation programs.

Minimum four years of professional engineering experience required; PE license in Indiana preferred.