Transportation Engineer (534163)

DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION
Driving the future of transportation with a diverse and innovative team

Job Summary:
The position is in the Pavement Management unit and reports to the the Pavement Preservation Engineer. This position is the point person to prepare the construction smoothness and incentive/disincentive report. Verifies the pavement construction project information including start and end mileposts and offsets, lane number, and exceptions (manholes, bridges, leading and transition zones) to process profile files to calculate International roughness index (IRI) to quantify the incentive or disincentive amounts tor the contractors. The employee verifies and reviews treatment / construction types, plans, special provisions, formulas, equations, and target values to calculate incentive/disincentive. Works with RE / district to resolve issues with the contractors. Reviews plan submitted by the contractor. Checks, reviews, and verifies large amount of data and QC testing results to determine data acceptance.

This position will directly work/use/operate the Pavement Management System (PMS) application. Analyze current and future pavement preservation and rehabilitation needs and assist with developing
priority programs.

This position provides expert technical consultation on complex.

Job Duties:

• Prepare construction smoothness and incentive/disincentive report. Verifies the pavement construction project information including start and end
  mileposts and offsets, lane number, and exceptions for processing profile files to calculate international roughness index (IRI) to quantify the incentive or disincentive amounts for the contractors.
• Reviews, comments, approves/disapproves quality control plans submitted by statewide pavement condition data collection contractor. Checks, reviews, and verifies a large quantity of data and QC testing results to determine data acceptance.
• Uses Pavement Management System (PMS).Works on pavement preservation and rehabilitation programs.
• Monitors, analyzes, and manages a large volume of pavement condition and highway data in the database.
• Performs field inspections

Selective Preference(s):
Education – Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering or closely related field accompanied by coursework in Computer Sciences or Information Management.
One year experience in database management.

Pre-Employment Requirements:
State of Arizona Registration as a Professional Engineer
Valid Arizona Driver’s license.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).