Under the general direction of the Branch Chief, the Senior Transportation Engineer (supervisor), the incumbent will assist in managing and leading all maintenance tasks related to the traffic safety devices including guardrails, guardrail end treatments, safety barriers, and attenuators. The incumbent will also participate in activities related to the New Products Traffic Devices Committee in reviewing materials proposed for safety applications on the California State Highway System. Additionally, the incumbent will be responsible for monitoring production and expenditures related to traffic safety devices and assisting with statewide signing and striping and safety devices trainings to the District Maintenance staff on a routine basis.
The incumbent will assist with overseeing, operating, and maintaining the Stripe Retroreflectivity Service Contract and the Asset Collection Service Contract including striping, signs, guardrails, guardrail end treatments, attenuators, safety barriers, and other transportation related facilities. The incumbent will assist with ensuring data integrity and routinely providing technical assistance to the HQ Division of Maintenance, Safety Programs, and District Maintenance. The incumbent will also assist with maintaining collected data in both contracts, and ensuring accurate data flow into the database, and providing necessary training to the Districts. The incumbent will perform quality assurance and control of the output data provided by the consultants. The incumbent will assist with preparing and reviewing technical reports on complex problems/issues related to stripe retroreflectivity and asset collection contracts.
The incumbent will assist in conducting technical research, preparing legislative analyses, writing response letters to public inquiries, responding to legislative requests, preparing engineering reports and charts, developing spreadsheets and memorandum, maintaining database integrity, and performing other duties related to highway traffic control devices and safety devices maintenance program.
Candidates are required to review the Minimum Qualifications (MQs) for this classification. If you meet MQs under Pattern II and require the TE Civil in-person written hurdle exam, DO NOT TAKE the TE Civil online exam prior to passing the written hurdle.
Candidates who take the TE Civil online exam prior to passing the written hurdle may negatively impact their hiring eligibility.
Please contact the exam unit at
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Eligibility for hire may be determined by your score on the Transportation Engineer (Civil) exam. For those who do not have current eligibility (e.g., transfer, permissive reinstatement, or voluntary demotions) and/or who will be new to state civil services employment, you must be on the state examination list to be eligible for these positions. To apply for the exam, please click here and search by typing in the classification title.
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