Transportation Engineer (534163)

Job Description:

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: This position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job and the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) R2-10-207.11). State of Arizona Registration as a Professional EngineerValid Arizona Driver’s license. All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).