Job Description and Duties
Under the direction of the Office Chief, a Supervising Transportation Engineer, the Senior Transportation Engineer Supervisor will manage and direct staff responsible for developing, improving, and maintaining the Department's pavement management systems (PMS). Incumbent is responsible for overseeing, analyzing, and maintaining the data input and engineering configurations that aid the Division of Maintenance Pavement Program and Districts in identifying and optimizing cost‑effective potential pavement project locations on the State Highway System for programming consideration. Incumbent will develop and implement sound quality control procedures, data management and governance practices, and supporting tools to provide users with quality data to aid pavement management decisions, including pavement project and strategy selection. Develop engineering data, analysis, reports, and documents to support special studies and completion of the annual State Of the Pavement (SOP) report, the Highway Maintenance work plan, the 10‑year SHOPP plan, Crumb Rubber report, and the State Highway System Management Plan (SHSMP). Incumbent must be able to administer and keep computer systems running, provide training to the districts, develop pavement management scenario analyses, generate reports for management, and support accurate data input and output. Incumbent will perform, coordinate, and/or monitor technical studies and prepare and review reports on complex problems and issues.
PARF# 56-6-081 / JC-499038
Eligibility for hire may be determined by your score on the Senior Transportation Engineer, Caltrans 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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Special Requirements
- This position require(s) a valid Professional Engineering License (Civil) issued by the California Board of Registration for Professional Engineers for appointment.
- Incumbent must possess and maintain a valid California Driver's License.
A statement of qualifications is required as follows:
- You must respond to all questions and identify each of the six responses by the corresponding SOQ item number.
- Two pages is the maximum acceptable length using no smaller than 12‑point font.
- Any applications not meeting the SOQ requirements will not be considered to be scheduled for an interview.
- Demonstrated experience to balance multiple priorities, meet deadlines, prepare engineering reports.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating & collaborating with internal functional units, districts & external partners responsible for pavement and transportation, related to pavement planning, design, construction, & maintenance.
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing databases, computer programming, or using spreadsheets to analyze engineering data.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement organizational improvements and/or innovations and lead a diverse team of both internal and external partners.
- Demonstrated experience with transportation‑related projects and pavement management; project development & financing; design, construction, and maintenance of various pavement strategies.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing, verbally, and make effective presentations.
Possession of Minimum Qualifications will be verified prior to interview and/or appointment. If you are basing your eligibility on education, you must include your unofficial transcript(s)/diploma for verification. Applicants with foreign transcripts/degrees must provide a transcript/degree U.S. equivalency report evaluation. Please visit either of the following two websites for a list of evaluation agencies: https://www.naces.org/members or https://aice-eval.org/. Please redact birthdates and social security numbers.
