Contract Specialist I or II; Pharr District (District Maint.)

About the role

The role involves performing contract duties such as developing, analyzing, evaluating, reviewing, processing, ensuring compliance, inspecting, implementing, and monitoring contracts. It requires extensive interaction with division and district personnel.

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance in developing, writing, or revising contracts, amendments, procedures, forms, related documents and provisions.
• Affords assistance in printing, collating, preparing documents and/or binding contracts/manuals for distribution.
• Affords auditing of payment invoices for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with terms of contract and governmental contracting rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Affords conducting audits, researches, and identifying problems with proposals, contracts, contractors or lettings and proposing solutions.
• Affords executing agreements and contracts.
• Affords maintaining, updating, and compiling detailed data, reports, summaries, files, records, logs, statistics or specific contracts including procurement documents and revisions; writing routine and unique correspondence.
• Affords meeting with project managers to identify objectives, needs, and issues concerning project contracts.
• Affords preparing bid proposals including researching previous contracts, writing specifications, advertising notice to bid; contacting bid list contractors; scheduling and conducting pre-construction/pre-bidding conferences and public bid openings.
• Affords reviewing contracts, amendments, subcontracts, procurement documents, change orders, work orders, supplemental agreements, time extensions, acceptance testing and consultant qualifications.
• Affords performing other job responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance or related field. Relevant work experience may substitute for degree on a year per year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications Experience: Contract Specialist I: 1 year in contract administration, administrative support, bookkeeping or accounting. Contract Specialist II: 2 years Contract administration, administrative support, bookkeeping or accounting (Experience can be satisfied by fulltime or prorated parttime equivalent).

Licenses and Certifications: Valid US driver’s license. This position requires driving a state vehicle.

Qualifications

Employees in this position may be required to obtain the following certifications in the future: Cert TX Contract Mgr. (CTCM) Cert TX Contract Dev (CTCD)

Skills

Applicable computer operating systems and relevant applications Auditing and investigative methods, practices and procedures Contract development and oversight Contract negotiation, development and management methods Contract writing and specifications Contract administration/management systems Contract record-keeping Maintaining effective working relationships with others Writing, reviewing and revising documents to include engineering notes, specifications, standards and procedures Collecting, sorting and compiling data Analyzing and organizing business and technical data Prioritizing and organizing work assignments

Benefits and Perks

• Retirement Plans
• Alternative and/or Flexible Work Schedules
• Paid Leave and Holidays
• Health Premiums paid at 100% for Full-Time Employees
• On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Holistic Wellness Program with Leave Incentives
• Career Development and Advancement Opportunities
• Family-Friendly Policies and Programs

Pay

• Contract Specialist I (B16): $51,600 - $61,130/annually $4,300 - $5,094.16/monthly
• Contract Specialist II (B18): $60,000 - $71,055/annually $5,000 - $5,921.25/monthly

Schedule

Full-time Employee Status Regular

Job Level

Non-Management

Job Posting

Jul 15, 2026, 11:01:56 AM

State Job Title/s

Contract Specialist I/Contract Specialist II

Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)

TxDOT is committed to hiring veterans. To assist in determining whether your military experience may pertain to the minimum requirements for this position, Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes from each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces have been assigned to each state classification code/title where applicable. The MOS codes are grouped by occupational category. To view the MOS codes please click on link below and click on the appropriate occupational category. https://hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions

Applicant Information

The Texas Department of Transportation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If requested, reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities for any part of the employment process in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Please click this link to read the information for applicants: Additional Applicant Information