Road Design Engineer 2026-00638

About the role

The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) is seeking a passionate and skilled Road Design Engineer to join our team in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In this role, you’ll take on meaningful work that directly impacts the safety, efficiency, and quality of our state’s roadways.

Responsibilities

• Develops, refines, and reviews highway construction plans that are critical to improving Wyoming’s transportation system.
• Establishes the dimensions and geometry of roadway cross-sectional elements to determine and refine excavation, embankment, and haul quantities for roadway construction.
• Designs and details other roadway features such as guardrail installations, culverts, storm sewer, drainage structures, utility, and right-of-way impacts using CADD software and other software packages.
• Fulfills project flow charts and follows applicable State, Federal, and Agency design policies and procedures.
• Calculates pay quantities for the materials used to construct roadways and prepares spreadsheets summarizing these quantities.
• Attends periodic workshops to increase skills and knowledge and trains others in new methods and procedures.
• Issues intermediate plan sets and attends inspections with minimal oversight.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• Experience in Engineering, preferably within the last 2 years.

Benefits

This position offers a $2,000 hiring bonus. See notes for eligibility. Working for the State of Wyoming offers comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, FMLA, and holidays, retirement plans, flexible schedules, and much more!

Pay

$80,000 - $90,000 annually, depending on experience.

Schedule

Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

Contact

For more information, visit the Wyoming Department of Transportation website.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Wyoming Department of Transportation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.