Senior Transportation Engineer

Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission; Santa Cruz (CA); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission is seeking a Senior Transportation Engineer to manage complex capital projects, including field and office duties across structures, drainage, rail facilities, roadways, and bikeways. The role emphasizes project management, construction administration, and detailed analyses.

The position requires a CA PE license, registration, and at least seven years of transportation engineering experience, with leadership responsibilities and cross-agency

Qualifikationen

• Civil Engineering or Transportation Engineering degree required.
• California PE license (Class C) required.
• Registration as Civil Engineer in California required.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible transportation engineering experience.

Aufgaben

• Manage the most complex regional priority projects for Measure D and other funding sources.
• Lead consultant selection and contract management activities: RFPs, bids, scopes, budgets, invoices.
• Mentor staff and provide technical engineering assistance; may supervise as needed.
• Contribute policy recommendations to strategic agency priorities.
• Prepare or oversee preliminary studies, reports, designs, calculations, maps and plans.
• Perform professional transportation engineering work in field and office; may act as resident engineer on projects.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Leadership

Contract management

Technical mentoring

Ausbildung

Civil/Transportation Engineering degree

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

PI287966280