DBE Highway Construction Specialist

About the role

To represent the Governor in issues involving DOT and to provide leadership as the department strives to be a transparent, efficient and accountable institution in which safety, performance management and customer satisfaction are of highest priority.

Responsibilities

• Develops and initiates programs for the training and orientation of DBE's to enable participation in highway construction projects as prime and sub contractors.
• Affords technical guidance and expertise through all phases of the construction process as required: cost estimating and bidding; interpretation of plans, specifications and blue prints; manpower and equipment utilization, etc; including the provision of onsite assistance to DBE's who encounter technical problems on highway construction projects.
• Conducts follow-up assessment of DBE performance with respect to quality of work, evidence of planning, and compliance with job specifications and special provisions.
• Develops novel concepts and approaches to solving problems concerning DBE's and their participation in DelDOT's DBE program.
• Develops liaison with prime contractors, assists them in meeting DBE goals and provides communications link with DBE subcontractors.
• Represents the department at hearings, conferences, and before public groups.
• Prepares and submits reports to FHWA and DelDOT as required.

Requirements

• Six months experience in program evaluation such as evaluating programs and services to identify problems, determine compliance and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency to ensure program goals and overall objectives are met.
• Six months experience in interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Six months experience in writing reports in a structured format containing an introduction, presenting the thesis, purpose or proposal with supporting evidence, explanation, facts, and analysis or examples with a conclusion or recommendations.
• Six months experience in data collection which includes collecting, compiling and maintaining data from multiple sources such as files, records, databases, customers, staff or others.
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics such as the mean, median, mode or standard deviation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have education, training and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

• Six months experience in program evaluation such as evaluating programs and services to identify problems, determine compliance and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency to ensure program goals and overall objectives are met.
• Six months experience in interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Six months experience in writing reports in a structured format containing an introduction, presenting the thesis, purpose or proposal with supporting evidence, explanation, facts, and analysis or examples with a conclusion or recommendations.
• Six months experience in data collection which includes collecting, compiling and maintaining data from multiple sources such as files, records, databases, customers, staff or others.
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics such as the mean, median, mode or standard deviation.

Skills

Narrative information supplied in response to the questions must be supported by the information supplied on the application including your employment, education and training history as it relates to the job requirements.

Benefits

To learn more about the comprehensive benefit package please visit our website at https://dhr.delaware.gov/benefits/.

Pay

Yearly: $43,900.00/Min - $54,875.00/Mid

Schedule

Shift Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm