Design Engineer - Engineer Principal

About the role

The position supervises up to four engineering and paraprofessional staff in the MnDOT Metro Design Unit and serves as the project manager for all assigned projects. It provides technical leadership for the Metro District in design and project delivery, offering management direction, general supervision, and engineering guidance for producing layouts, final plans, and supporting documents. The position signs engineering documents as the engineer of record, including preliminary layouts, final plans, and specifications. It also ensures that all assigned projects are delivered on schedule and within budget and is responsible for developing and managing consultant contracts.

Responsibilities

• Supervise up to four engineering and paraprofessional staff in the Metro Design Unit
• Serve as the project manager for all assigned projects
• Provide technical leadership for the Metro District in design and project delivery
• Offer management direction, general supervision, and engineering guidance for producing layouts, final plans, and supporting documents
• Sign engineering documents as the engineer of record, including preliminary layouts, final plans, and specifications
• Ensure all assigned projects are delivered on schedule and within budget
• Develop and manage consultant contracts

Requirements

• Licensure as a professional Civil Engineer with the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID) or ability to obtain licensure through Comity (Reciprocity)
• Three years of post-registration engineering experience at the Engineer Senior level or equivalent performing scoping and designing of highway transportation projects
• Experience leading technical staff in the development and delivery of road-construction layouts, final plans, specifications, and cost estimates

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing sufficiently to give direction, facilitate meetings, make public presentations, and answer project specific and policy questions and to write letters and other documentation
• Human relations skills sufficient to work cooperatively with the public and other affected interests

Skills

• Effective communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Project management skills
• Technical expertise in highway transportation projects

Benefits

• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 12 paid holidays each year
• Low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• Fertility care, including IVF
• Dental and orthodontic care for adults and children
• 6 weeks paid leave for parents of newborn or newly adopted children
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire (after working at least three years)
• Employer paid life insurance to provide support for your family in the event of death
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance that can provide income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Tax-free expense accounts for health, dental, and dependent care

Pay

$42.16 - $64.20 / hourly; $88,030 - $134,049 / annually

Schedule

Day Shift

Benefits

• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 12 paid holidays each year
• Low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• Fertility care, including IVF
• Dental and orthodontic care for adults and children
• 6 weeks paid leave for parents of newborn or newly adopted children
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire (after working at least three years)
• Employer paid life insurance to provide support for your family in the event of death
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance that can provide income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Tax-free expense accounts for health, dental, and dependent care