Department of Transportation
SENIOR TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER, CALTRANS
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Job Description and Duties
Under the general direction of the Office Chief, Highway Operations, System Management, the incumbent serves as the Branch Chief of Highway Operations for State Highway System (SHS) and Toll Bridges in the Bay Area. The incumbent is responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring and managing District 4's Traffic Operations related programs within the San Francisco Bay Area counties and Toll Bridges. The incumbent also oversees functional units responsible for Traffic Operations programs deliverables and development/delivery of the traffic engineering components of projects/activities on the State Highway System (SHS) and Bay Area Toll Bridges as well as providing support to the Legal Division on traffic operations matters. The incumbent coordinates operations and project delivery activities, partners with external agencies, analyzes complex technical and financial situations, provides responses to internal and external inquiries, resolves technical issues and oversees program/project resources, schedules, and targets.
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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You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.